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Knoxville, Tennessee

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Knoxville, Tennessee
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This poem, which is found in Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People, celebrates the strength and love of the African-American community at home and at church. A little...
 
 
Love That Dog

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Love That Dog
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"Boys don't write poetry says," Jack, when he gets the assignment from his teacher, Ms Stretchberry, but bit-by-bit and poem-by-poem, Jack begins to get the hang of this poetry...
 
 
Maples in the Mist:  Children’s Poems from the Tang Dynasty

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Maples in the Mist: Children’s Poems from the Tang Dynasty
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You know, I worked at an independent children’s bookstore for about nine years and in that time a few books stood out for me. This is one of...
 
 
My People
This 33 word poem by Langston Hughes is brilliantly illustrated with the photographs of Charles R. Smith, Jr. He chose to take two or three words of each...
 
 
Oprah: The Little Speaker

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Oprah: The Little Speaker
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Clearly, God had a plan for a little girl born of a military man just passing through and a woman who went north and left her to her grandmother....
 
 
Reaching For Sun

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Reaching For Sun
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Taunts and loneliness are the companions of Josie Wyatt everyday at school. She is different. She is in middle school, and she has cerebral palsy. At home her Gran...
 
 
Reading, Rhyming and 'Rithmetic

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Reading, Rhyming and 'Rithmetic
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The focus of this poem collection is school scenes. “One Hundred Words” is about an old fashioned poetry writing assignment, “True or False” is a funny story about...
 
 
Shape Me a Rhyme:  Nature's Forms in Poetry

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Shape Me a Rhyme: Nature's Forms in Poetry
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Wonderful Jane Yolen has written simple poems describing shapes in nature. The poems are matched with beautiful photographs from nature. For example, on the page of the spiral shape...
 
 
Spin a Soft Black Song   Poems for Children

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Spin a Soft Black Song Poems for Children
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This is a warm collection of poems for children that celebrates children. The poems range from the struggle a child has over playing outside or going back in to...
 
 
Technically, It's Not My Fault   Concrete Poems

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Technically, It's Not My Fault Concrete Poems
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Poetry that's fun and very creative! It's done in shapes and patterns.
 
 
The Beatitudes:  From Slavery to Civil Rights

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The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
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For those children born in the late nineties or after the year 2000, history is a bit different. We have an African-American president and the world of separate...
 
 
The Genie in the Jar

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The Genie in the Jar
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Usually when a little girl in a fairy tale finds a loom with a spindle, she is doomed to prick her finger. But the little girl in this poem...
 
 
The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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"I've known rivers...I've known rivers ancient as the world." These are the opening lines of this magnificent, powerful poem. E.B.Lewis chose to illustrate the book with pictures of worn...
 
 
The Tree That Time Built

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The Tree Time Built
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What can capture the wonder and the magic of the universe and all its amazing ingredients better than poetry? Mary Ann Hoberman, U.S.Children's Poet Laureate and Linda Winston have...
 
 
Too Much Kissing

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Too Much Kissing
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Alan Katz began his hit parade with TAKE ME OUT OF THE BATHTUB and has worked his way up to this book which is filled with...
 
 
 
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