A Child's Introduction to Poetry is a poetry book for kids about poets and their poetry from Homer to Maya Angelou. A CD is included.
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Michael Driscoll
Black Dog & Leventhal
Meredith Hamilton
Hardcover w/enclsd. CD
10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
91
1-57912-282-5
2003
8 - 12
3
$19.95
$12.95
Why A Child's Introduction to Poetry will captivate you
You will find in this anthology so many of the well-known great poems--from Emily Dickinson's I'm Nobody! Who are You! to Caged Bird's Song by Maya Angelou. This is not a dry poetry book. These poems come alive as the meanings are explained by words and clever illustrations. There are even side-bars that give explanations of some unfamiliar words used by the poet (i.e. “knaves, pitch-and-toss, sinew” used in An Englishman in Bombay by Rudyard Kipling.) The delight, the passion, and the knowledge of Michael Driscoll are evident in the way this book is presented.
Synopsis
In this poetry book with included CD the fictional Professor Driscolli will guide you through the wonderful world of poetry. He will introduce you to the“lyric, Haiku, sonnet, and villanelle”. He transports you back 2000 years to ancient Greece and also to an imaginary land filled with creatures like “Jabberwocks.” You will meet famous poets from throughout history and can listen to their poems on an accompanying audio CD. “Play track symbols” inform you when it’s time to listen to the CD and hear the poetry come to life. There are 64 poetry tracks on the included CD.
Description
The Contents of A Child’s Introduction to Poetry is in two parts. Part One is “The Rhymes and Their Reasons.” This is the section that includes the different types of poetry with a brief history of how they evolved. Here is Mother Goose; Nonsense Verse such as Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky”; the Villanelle and the inclusion of Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night”; Limericks, the Haiku, Narrative Verse including “Paul Revere’s Ride”, lyric verse, ballads, pastorals, sonnets, free verse, and alphabet poems, riddles, epitaphs, and other unusual styles.
Part Two is entitled “Poetry’s Greats”. Included are the great bards such as Homer, Shakespeare, and John Milton. Other great poets’ works found in this section include: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Christina Rossetti, Robert Frost, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Sandburg, W. H. Auden, Octavio Paz, and Maya Angelou. Learn about the life of the included poets and listen to samplings of their poetry.
