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Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry

8 best books like Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry (Kenneth Koch): Winnie-the-Pooh, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature, Underland, Letters from a Stoic, Essays of E.B. White, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, A Short History of Myth

Winnie-the-Pooh
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0525467564
The Bear of Very Little Brain and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood have delighted generations of readers since Winnie-the-Pooh was first published in 1926.

Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books,...
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
AuthorDavid George Haskell
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest.

In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature’s...
Underland
AuthorRobert Macfarlane
ISBN0393242145
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.

In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
Letters from a Stoic
AuthorSeneca
ISBN0140442103
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (c.4 B.C. - A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome...
Essays of E.B. White
AuthorE.B. White
ISBN0060932236
The classic collection by one of the greatest essayists of our time.

Selected by E.B. White himself, the essays in this volume span a lifetime of writing and a body of work without peer.  "I have chosen the ones that have amused me in the rereading," he writes in the Foreword, "alone with a few...
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
AuthorDavid George Haskell
"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Trees is a powerful argument against the ways in which humankind has severed the very biological networks that give us our place in the world. Listen as David Haskell takes his stethoscope to the heart of nature - and discover the poetry and music contained...
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
AuthorAlexandra Horowitz
ISBN1439191255
You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in the distance and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. The hum of the fluorescent lights;...
A Short History of Myth
AuthorKaren Armstrong
“Human beings have always been mythmakers.” So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up...
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