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Author Ciardi, John, 1916-1986.

Title I met a man / Illustrated by Robert Osborn.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1961]
©1961

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 811.82 C565I    Check Shelf
Description 74 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents I met a crow -- Man that had no hat -- Sleepy man -- This man talked about you -- Man in the woods said: -- Man that had little to say -- Man that lived in a box -- When I went to get a drink -- Have you met this man? -- This man came from nowhere -- This man went away -- I met a man that was trying to whittle -- Man in the onion bed -- I met a man that lived in a house -- I met a man I could not see -- Then I met another man I could not see -- I met a man with three eyes -- This man had six eyes! -- Cat heard the cat-bird -- This man lives at my house now -- I met a man that showed me a trick -- I met a man that was all head -- Guess -- I met a man right here on the pad -- Other day when I met Dick -- I met a man that was coming back -- I wish I could meet the man that knows -- I met a man down in the well -- I met a man that had two birds -- I met a man that was playing games -- I met a man that said, "Just look!"
Summary For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game.
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Subject Children's poetry.
Nonsense verses.
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