| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
112 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
JANUARY. From "In memoriam" / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- A question for martin / Nikki Grimes -- Aphorisms / Benjamin Franklin -- Prayer for the lunar new year / Janet S. Wong -- FEBRUARY. My people / Langston Hughes -- Groundhog / Maria Fleming -- Flying man / Mother Goose -- Weather / Anonymous -- I love you / Anonymous -- From "The rainy day" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Remembering Marian Anderson / Joyce Carol Thomas -- MARCH. Freedom! / Bobbi Katz -- Irish song for St. Patrick / Anonymous -- Spring / Prince Redcloud -- Introduction to poetry / Billy Collins -- Blue-butterfly day / Robert Frost -- Pencils / Beverly McLoughland -- APRIL. If you believe me / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- From "More opposites" / Richard Wilbur -- Earth, what will you give me? / Beverly McLoughland -- Little birds / Anonymous -- Comments on poetry / various artists -- MAY. Mother to son / Langston Hughes -- There was a young lady of Firle, and There was an old man with a beard / Edward Lear -- Fossil finds / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Memorial Day / Constance Andrea Keremes -- Now lift me close / Walt Whitman -- JUNE. Skipper / Gwendolyn Brooks -- A father's hands / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- from "Stay, June, stay" / Christina G. Rossetti -- The river is a piece of sky / John Ciardi -- First lady of twentieth-century sports / J. Patrick Lewis -- |
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JULY. from Sing-Song / Christina G. Rossetti -- Fourth of July parade / Anonymous -- The ringmaster / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- St. Swithin's Day proverb / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- AUGUST. Evening: Ponte al mare, Pisa / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Wishing for winter in summer / X. F. Kennedy -- SEPTEMBER. labor Day / Marci Ridlon / from James Lee / Robert Browning -- Oh, the Lord is good to me / John Chapman -- The naming of cats / T. S. Eliot -- Me x 2 yo x 2 / Jane Medina -- OCTOBER. Treasure words / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- In the moon of falling leaves / Joseph Bruchac -- Soccer, and Subways are people / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- from Chansons innocentes, II / E. E. Cummings -- NOVEMBER. Windshield wipers / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Two lives are yours / Richard Armour -- Thanksgiving / Anonymous -- Iroquois prayer / Anonymous -- DECEMBER. I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford -- Muffs / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- from Near the window tree / Karla Kuskin -- The Year / Felice Holman. |
| Summary |
Provides a listing of events, births of famous people, and holidays, with information and poetry about the twelve months of the year. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.5 2.0 111142. |
| Subject |
Almanacs, Children's.
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Almanacs.
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| Added Author |
Alcorn, Stephen, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0060007656 trade |
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0060007664 library binding |
| Standard No. |
9780060007669 |
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