| Description |
48 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Poetry for kids.
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| Contents |
Walt's welcome. Song of the open road (excerpt) -- Starting from Paumanok. There was a child went forth (two excerpts) ; Paumanok ; The sleepers (excerpt) ; Out of the cradle endlessly rocking (two excerpts) ; Beginning my studies ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (three excerpts) ; A font of type -- Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son. Walt Whitman's caution ; I sing the body electric (excerpt) ; A woman waits for me (excerpt) ; City of ships (excerpt) -- Give me the splendid silent sun ; Song of myself (six excerpts) ; Shut not your doors ; Calamus 9 -- The wound-dresser. Beat! Beat! Drums! ; The wound-dresser (excerpt) ; Come up from the fields father ; As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods ; O Captain! My captain! ; Aboard at a ship's helm -- The good gray poet. O me! O life! ; On the beach at night ; A noiseless patient spider ; Thanks in old age ; Poets to come -- What Walt was thinking -- Index. |
| Audience |
NP Lexile |
| Note |
NP Lexile |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, American -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Evans, Kate (Illustrator), illustrator.
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Karbiener, Karen, 1965- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781633221505 (hbk.) |
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1633221504 (hbk.) |
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