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Author | : Nancy Willard |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : American poetry. |
ISBN | : 9780394984148 |
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A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of poems about Biddy Early, the Wise Woman of Clare, and her animal, human, and supernatural associates.
Author | : Nancy Willard |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 148048153X |
Download Swimming Lessons Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This marvelous collection brings together the finest of Nancy Willard’s work Transporting us from Michigan farm country to the streets of New York, from a family picnic by a stream to snow-covered fields peopled by angels, the poems gathered here represent the best of Nancy Willard. Willard’s gift for peeling back everyday existence to reveal something magical and wondrous is everywhere in evidence here. Ordinary trees become surreal landscapes “fanning the fire in their stars” and “spraying fountains of light.” Poems featuring Great Danes, donkeys, and rabbits reveal Willard’s love for all living creatures. “How to Stuff a Pepper” and “A Psalm for Running Water” coexist with poems about visits from God. The title poem tells the story of Willard at seven, while “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him” explores the joys and pitfalls of being a mother. Offering imagery from mythical goddesses to pumpkin saints to wise jellyfish, these are poems of astonishing imagination and grace, and will introduce a new generation of readers to Willard’s remarkable body of work.
Author | : Meda Ryan |
Publisher | : Mercier Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2023-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781856353168 |
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Biddy Early, a mysterious woman from Clare, Ireland was a mystic or witch, her extraordinary abilities sparked tales of cures, prophecies, and spells. Her magic cloaked bottle, served as a tool of clairvoyance, shrouding her life in mystery.
Author | : Bette D. Ammon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1996-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0313090130 |
Download Worth a Thousand Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books-picture books for older readers. A multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom supplements this list of carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction books that focuses on universal themes, appeals to all ages, addresses important issues, and is accessible to multiple learning styles. Picture books aren't just for the very young. Innovative educators and parents have used them for years with readers of all ages and reading levels, knowing that students comprehend more from the visual-verbal connections these books offer. They are great tools for teaching visual literacy and writing skills; are effective with reluctant readers, ESL students, and those reading below grade level; and can easily be used to support various curriculum. This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books and a multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom. The authors have carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction that focus on universal themes, appeal to all ages, treat important issues, and are accessible to multiple learning styles.
Author | : Barry Moser |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781567921267 |
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Essays by the illustrator and artist.
Author | : Nancy Willard |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1480481556 |
Download A Nancy Willard Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Selections from Nancy Willard’s acclaimed volumes of poetry and prose This diverse collection features some of Nancy Willard’s most critically lauded poetry—including works from her Newbery Medal–winning volume, A Visit to William Blake’s Inn—as well as her short fiction and four unconventional essays on writing. Hens, children, magic bottles, and the moon are just some of the characters running through the luminous musings gathered here. “How to Stuff a Pepper” becomes a heady discourse on the thoughts and sleeping habits of peppers. “The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus” and “The Hucklebone of a Saint” are tales about the power of superstition to shape our lives. Other stories showcase favorite Willard themes about God, religion, and the magic and mysticism in everyday life—and the ancestors, guardians, saints, and spirits who, in Willard’s words, come back “once in a while to keep an eye on us, the living.” A paean to the power of storytelling, A Nancy Willard Reader is an essential volume for poetry and fiction lovers.
Author | : Sharron L. McElmeel |
Publisher | : Libraries Unlimited |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download The Poet Tree Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bring poetry into every child's daily experience with activities based on the verses of such traditional and contemporary poets as Robert Louis Stevenson, Shel Silverstein, Karla Kuskin, and John Ciardi. Activities for sparking an interest in and an enjoyment of poetry promote listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills. Biographical information, a poster page, and background information are given for each poet. Grades K-6.
Author | : Nancy Willard |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2011-10-12 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307532534 |
Download In the Salt Marsh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this strong, appealing collection, Nancy Willard shares her passion for observing the mysteries of the natural world, particularly the flora and fauna of Cape Cod and the Hudson Valley, where many of these poems are set. We see, through her eyes, the coming of darkness to an empty orchard, the retreat of deer at dusk, and the breakup of a river with the onset of spring. Willard is also deeply engaged with the living creatures that populate her world. Her poems record her encounter with a moon snail and her celebration of the ladybugs she sends into the garden and the butterflies that alight on her shoulders like ghostly kisses. Amid poems about the intimate presence of nature are expressions of absences deeply felt. Willard is drawn not just to the inhabited world but also to the empty spaces with which our passage through life is strewn. In “The Absence at the Swing,” a rabbit watches a swing’s back-and-forth motion just after the children have left the playground; in “Niche Without Statue,” she takes us to “an alcove scoured / to stucco light” and tells us, “Somebody lived here. Stepped away. No tracks.” We learn, too, of the presences she misses most deeply, as in “Phone Poem,” in which she imagines receiving a telephone call from her father after his death. Whether she is cultivating a sense of the life that is all around her or attending to the losses felt within, Nancy Willard never ceases to enchant us with the sense of dedication and awe that graces her verse.
Author | : Nancy Willard |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0375712240 |
Download The Sea at Truro Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the acclaimed poet of In the Salt Marsh comes a dazzling collection about the magic hiding in the ordinary days of our past and present. Willard turns a keen eye on the natural world that witnesses these revelations, and the myriad, often surprising ways in which it intersects with our own human lot. Willard shows us time and again that “In me nothing of childhood is lost.” She recaptures for us not only the fleeting, distant shreds of a charmed, innocent youth, but brings back the people who have been loved and lost. She tells us of the man whose sister appears to him the night after her memorial service, and of the time her grandfather called her mother three days after he died, “. . . and she with her arms full / of wind-washed laundry / just freed from the line.” She gives back to us Walt Whitman, “eating / his supper from a sheet of brown paper.” She lends voice not only to the loved ones with whom we have parted ways but also to the plant and animal lives that remain a mystery to us despite our close proximity to them. In her able hands “the potato opens its eyes” and the dragonfly stands “well mannered and cautious.” Whether she is musing “What it is to be that crow,” bringing us “the gossip of ants,” or noting that “The sea reads slowly, as old men in libraries / follow the news . . .,” Willard brings extraordinary empathy to every subject she touches, creating fascinating new worlds from the ordinary staples of our daily existence. Finally, she plumbs the ultimate union between the human and natural worlds that she brings into such sharp focus. Grave Last year four men planted you under a stone. Today I plant the dumpy heart of a narcissus. Sharing your bed, it will wake up singing.