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Author Charles Ghigna, known as Father Goose, shares advice on learning to look at the world like a poet in this week's installment. Poetry from Daily Life: Seeing with the eyes of a poet Skip to ...
Charles Ghigna (/'gɪnˈjə/) (born August 25, 1946), known also as Father Goose is an American poet and author of children's and adults' books. He has written more than 5,000 poems and 100 books. [1] Ghigna was born in Bayside, Queens. His parents relocated to Fort Myers, Florida when he was five. [2]
Charles "Father Goose" Ghigna (born 1946) – Mice Are Nice, Riddle Rhymes, A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys; May Gibbs (1877–1969) – Snugglepot and Cuddlepie; Patricia Reilly Giff (1935–2021) – The Polk Street School series, Lily's Crossing, Pictures of Hollis Woods, Eleven, Storyteller; Fred Gipson (1908–1973) – Old Yeller
Margaret Wise Brown, author of children’s literature, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny; Lilian Moore, poet, children’s author, and editor; Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner was a contributing editor to Humpty Dumpty for eight years in the 1950s, creating the activity features and writing short stories about the adventures of Humpty Dumpty, Jr., as well as poems of ...
16. "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck. 17. "Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.”
Charles Bane Jr. (born 1951) Russell Banks (born 1940) Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta (1834–1907) Amiri Baraka (a.k.a. Leroi Jones) (1934–2014) Coleman Barks (born 1937) Joel Barlow (1754–1812) Anita Barnard (born 1960) Mary Barnard (1909–2001) Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) Jim Barnes (born 1933) Annie Wall Barnett (1859–1942) Catherine ...
Charles Patrick Graves (1899–1971, England/Barbados, nf/f) Clotilde Graves (1863–1932, Ireland, d), pseudonym Richard Dehan Frank Pierrepont Graves (1869–1956, US, nf)
Charles Bolden, African-American astronaut; Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001; August 20 – Connie Chung, Asian-American reporter; August 25. Nancy Blomberg, American art curator (d. 2018) Rollie Fingers, American baseball player; Charles Ghigna, American poet, children's author; August 26. Valerie Simpson ...