Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

8 best books like Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer (Maya Angelou): Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook, Wade in the Water: Poems, The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems), Under the Mesquite, Swan: Poems and Prose Poems, The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Author	Susan Campbell Bartoletti
ISBN	0439353793

"I begin with the young. We older ones are used up . . . But my magnificent youngsters! Look at these men and boys! What material! With them, I can create a new world." --Adolf Hitler, Nuremberg 1933

By the time Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, 3.5 million children belonged to the Hitler...

Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook

Author	Shel Silverstein
ISBN	0060256532

From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit.

Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms—words...

Wade in the Water: Poems

Author

Tracy K. Smith

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems)

Author	Alice Walker
ISBN	1595588760

"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly gifted writer” (The New York Times), Walker imbues her poetry with evocative...

Under the Mesquite

Author	Guadalupe Garcia McCall
ISBN	1600604293

Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mother's battle with cancer in this young adult novel in verse.

When Lupita learns Mami has cancer, she is terrified by the possibility...

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0807068993

“Joy is not made to be a crumb,” writes Mary Oliver, and certainly joy abounds in her new book of poetry and prose poems. Swan, her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be “made out of the dust of stars,” we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire...

The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family

Author	John Lithgow
ISBN	0446580023

From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems....

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0807068837

This is my favourite poem in the collection, not because it's the most exceptional poem, but because it's the poem that wound itself most firmly round my heart, and reminded me of the final days I spent with my grandmother, when she knew and I knew that she was dying, but she chose not to speak of it, but did...