A Kick in the Head
An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Illustrated by Chris Raschka
Compiled by Paul B. Janeczko
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $9.99
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.
In this splendid and playful volume — second of a trilogy — an acclaimed creative team presents examples of twenty-nine poetic forms, demonstrating not only...
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Zip! Pop! Hop! and Other Fun Words to Say (Sesame Street)
Written by Michaela Muntean
Illustrated by David Prebenna
Format: Board, 24 pages
On Sale: May 27, 2008
Price: $4.99
Elmo and his friends have lots of fun saying oodles of words with interesting sounds—and which sometimes feel a little funny in the mouth—such as pop, zip, hopscotch, growl, snip, gurgle, squiggly, ticktock, and lots more. There are giggles galore for babies and toddlers on every single page!
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You Can't Read This
Forbidden Books, Lost Writing, Mistranslations, and Codes
Written by Val Ross
Format: Hardcover, 152 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $19.95
Wherever people can read, there are stories about the magic, mystery, and power of what they read. Val Ross presents a history of reading that is, in fact, the story of the monumental, on-going struggle to read. From Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon the Great, the world’s oldest signed author to Empress...
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Did You Say Pears?
Written by Arlene Alda
Format: Hardcover, 32 pages
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
“If horns played cool music, and pants were just clothes...”
Horn, pants, nails, trunk, pitcher — all words that can mean more than one thing. Arlene Alda has put together words and images in a delightful and witty book of photographs as inviting as a pair of juicy pears.
Did You Say...
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A Kick in the Head
An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
Illustrated by Chris Raschka
Compiled by Paul B. Janeczko
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2005
Price: $17.99
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.
Please
Open this book for something
Extraordinary.
Twenty-nine different poetic forms await you
Inside these pages. How many
Can you master?
From sonnets to double dactyls,
Odes to limericks—
Raschka and Janeczko (and...
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A Poke in the I
A Collection of Concrete Poems
Edited by Paul B. Janeczko
Illustrated by Chris Raschka
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2005
Price: $7.99
"These aren't poems to read aloud, but to look at and laugh at together, with young children and especially older readers, who will enjoy the surprise of what words look like and what can be done with them." —BOOKLIST (starred review)Concrete poems startle and delight the eye and mind. The size...
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