| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
56 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A collection of poems celebrating the act of giving and the joy of receiving. |
| Contents |
Up from the bed of the river / James Weldon Johnson -- Dakota prairie hymn -- Six weeks old / Christopher Morley -- Rock, rock, sleep, my baby / Clyde Watson -- Little / Dorothy Aldis -- Morning has broken / Eleanor Farjeon -- May the road rise to meet you -- For lo, the winter is past -- Father / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Daddy / Rose Fyleman -- You be saucer / Eve Merriam -- Granny Granny please comb my hair / Grace Nichols -- Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- Grandma's lost balance / Sydney Dayre -- Piggy-back / Langston Hughes -- Dunce song 6 / Mark Van Doren -- When I walk through thy woods / Moshe Hakotun -- Childhood painting lesson / Henry Rago -- Direction / Alonzo Lopez -- A friend in the garden / Juliana Horatia Ewing -- Hurt no living thing / Christina Rossetti -- For a bird / Myra Cohen Livingston -- Feather or fur / John Becker -- To a squirrel at Kyle-na-no / William Butler Yeats -- A mother / Issa -- The sheep / Ann and Jane Taylor -- Out in the fields -- The Herd boy's song. The moon in the mountains / Chen Shan-min -- Songs of innocence : introduction / William Blake -- I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford. |
| Subject |
Generosity -- Juvenile poetry.
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Children's poetry, American.
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Children's poetry, English.
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Gratitude -- Juvenile poetry.
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Praise -- Juvenile poetry.
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Generosity -- Poetry.
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Gratitude -- Poetry.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Chorao, Kay.
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| ISBN |
0525454098 hardcover |
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9780525454090 hardcover |
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