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Shaw, John MacKay. "Poetry for Children of Two Centuries". Research about nineteenth-century children and books. Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1980. 133-142. Stone, Wilbur Macey. The Divine and Moral Songs of Isaac Watts: An Essay thereon and a tentative List of Editions. New York: The Triptych, 1918.
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices is a book of poetry for children by Paul Fleischman. It won the 1989 Newbery Medal. [1] The book is a collection of fourteen children's poems about insects such as mayflies, lice, and honeybees. The concept is unusual in that the poems are intended to be read aloud by two people.
As before, many works of children's poetry were written to teach children moral virtues. Isaac Watts' Divine Songs are an example of this concept. [1] They were reprinted for a 150 years, in six or seven hundred editions. [1] In fact, they were so popular that Lewis Carroll parodied them two hundred years later in Alice's Adventures in ...
Every parent’s primary goal is to raise a decent human, but didactic speeches about right and wrong aren’t exactly in the cards when you’re dealing with a kid who can’t tear himself away ...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1974 children's poetry collection written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. [1] It was published by Harper and Row Publishers.The book's poems address common childhood concerns and also present fanciful stories and imaginative images.
Thea Beckman (1923–2004) – Crusade in Jeans, Children of Mother Earth series; Frank Beddor (born 1958) – The Looking Glass Wars series; John Bellairs (1938–1991) – The House with a Clock in Its Walls; Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) – Cautionary Tales for Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, More Beasts for Worse Children
In 2010, Swift revealed that she was inspired by the words of Dr. Seuss to take up her own poetry journey. “A lot of people who gravitate toward music are really, really sort of drawn to poetry ...