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45 Grandparents Day Poems. 1. “Grandma’s Secret Recipe” by Unknown. Mixing up a potion, and I’m by her side. With a sprinkle of laughter and a pinch of “I love you.”. Grandma’s ...
Love That Dog is a free verse piece written by Sharon Creech and published by HarperCollins. It is written in diary format, in the perspective of a young boy who resists poetry assignments from his teacher. [ 1 ] The author drew inspiration from Walter Dean Myers ' poem, Love That Boy. [ 2 ] The book received good reviews [ 3 ][ 4 ] and was a ...
Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [ 1 ] Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published.
Website. eileenmyles.com. Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award -winning [ 1 ] American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. [ 2 ]
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
His first book of poems, Whether the Will Is Free: Poems 1954–62, was published in the same year. [5] Stead's first novel, Smith's Dream, about a war similar to the Vietnam War in New Zealand, was published in 1971. [6] Stead was an opponent of the Vietnam War. [6]
The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser.Books I–III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV–VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, [1] it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian ...
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...