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  2. A Child's Garden of Verses - Wikipedia

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    Title Page of a 1916 US edition. A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century. [2]

  3. The Chimney Sweeper - Wikipedia

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    The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time.

  4. Children's poetry - Wikipedia

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    In the world of children's poetry, she was consistently praised for her skillful metered verse, free verse, nonsense verse, and social conscience. [39] Francisco X. Alarcón (1954–2016) first started writing poetry for children in 1997 after realizing there were very few books written by Latino authors. His poems are minimalist and airy, and ...

  5. High levels of pollution can stunt young kids’ learning ...

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    Story at a glance Residents of impoverished neighborhoods are exposed to higher levels of air pollution. Although previous research has detailed a link between poverty and poor educational ...

  6. Air pollution - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution can occur naturally or be caused by human activities. [4] Air pollution causes around 7 or 8 million deaths each year. [5] [6] It is a significant risk factor for a number of pollution-related diseases, including heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and lung cancer.

  7. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Wikipedia

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    "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. [citation needed] The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy ...

  8. Rain (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    The collection features poems dedicated to both of Paterson's children, the founder of origami Akira Yoshizawa, and the poet Michael Longley; the book is also dedicated, as a whole, to Michael Donaghy. As in his earlier collections, Paterson uses Scottish Dialect in many of the shorter lyrics in this work - words such as 'tae', 'och', 'wi' and ...

  9. Joseph Coelho - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Aaron Coelho OBE FRSL is a British poet and children's book author who was Children's Laureate from 2022 to 2024. In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [1]