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The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico

10 best books like The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico (Naomi Shihab Nye): Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry, The Dragons are Singing Tonight, Insectlopedia, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, Carver: A Life in Poems, Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude, Women Poets of China, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1402718454
Sterling proudly announces an exciting and vibrant addition to Poetry for Young People: The first African-American themed book in the series, featuring the poems of the extraordinary Langston Hughes. Edited by the two leading experts on Hughes’s work, and illustrated by the brilliant Benny Andrews,...
Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry
AuthorX.J. Kennedy
ISBN0316488003
The perfect classic anthology of poetry for today's young readers.
A classic poetry anthology, Knock at a Star contains lively, interesting poems from the most beloved writers and poets of our time, past and present, including Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Jack Prelutsky, Mary Ann Hoberman,...
The Dragons are Singing Tonight
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0688161626
An "excellent collection....Prelutsky and Sis...bring to life so many sorts of dragons: the large, the small, the ferocious, the technological, the gentle, the ominous, and the disconsolate. There's a `just right' quality to the verse that makes it a pleasure to read the words aloud. Their sounds...
Insectlopedia
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN0152163352
I am not big on insects but this book was so much fun to read. Many of the poems have rhythm. In The Army Ants poem it sounds like the ants are marching as you read the poem. Other poems are shaped like the insect or what the insect does and have rhythm.In the Inchworm you can almost see the inchworm moving up and...
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN0810943867
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.

I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
Carver: A Life in Poems
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1886910537
George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless white couple who had owned his mother. In 1877 he left home in search of an education, eventually earning a master's degree. In 1896, Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department...
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520072278
As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry.
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Women Poets of China
AuthorKenneth Rexroth
ISBN0811208214
This book (originally published in 1972 by The Seabury Press as The Orchid Boat) is the first representative collection of the poetry of Chinese women to appear in English. Unlike Japan with its long tradition of women writers, poetry by women did not become fashionable in China until the Ch'ing dynasty...
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
AuthorTina Chang
ISBN0393332381
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.

Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0618616802
When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.

In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes,...
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States
AuthorLori Marie Carlson
Similar to my own experience, Lori Marie Carlson started studying Spanish as a pre-adolescent, fostering a lifelong appreciation for both the language and the culture. When Carlson was growing up, Spanish meant Spain and all things Ibero-centric. Yet, after choosing Latin American studies as the...
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN1402225172
A poetry celebration of nature, science, the environment, and the wonder of it all, from the Children's Poet Laureate The Tree That Time Built is a moving anthology of more than 100 poems celebrating the wonders of the natural world and encouraging environmental awareness. With a focus on the outdoors,...
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems)
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0618234837
A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this book illuminate funny, unexpected, amazing aspects of the...
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0806908203
"Gr. 5 Up...spacious format; a wide variety of poems; and colorful, interpretive illustrations...."--SLJ. "The format is admirable: a handsome sampler of poems, with a short introductory essay, unfamiliar words briefly defined in footnotes, and a few prefatory sentences for each poem to establish...
A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems
AuthorPaul B. Janeczko
ISBN0763606618
Even kids who don’t know they like poetry will love this playful, visually accessible collection of thirty concrete poems—illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist!

Concrete poems startle and delight the eye and mind. The size and arrangement of words—or even just letters on the page...
Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English: Bilingual Spanish-English
AuthorAlma Flor Ada
ISBN0688170676
In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them. Simple poems in Spanish and English, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet, describe the wonder of the vegetable and fruit farms. Together,...
Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School
AuthorGeorgia Heard
Fans of the best-selling For the Good of the Earth and Sun will applaud this sequel by beloved author Georgia Heard - an inspiring and practical handbook that celebrates the natural power of poetry to teach the essential tools of all writing.

Awakening the Heart explores how to cultivate the...
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