The Miami Valley School Library

Firefly July :

Firefly July : a year of very short poems / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet. - First edition 2014. - 47 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Spring -- Summer -- Fall -- Winter. Daybreak reminds us / Spring / The red wheelbarrow / The island / In passing / Water lily / Open-billed / Window / Little orange cat / Subway rush hour / A happy meeting / Firefly July / Sandpipers / Bronze Age / In the field forever / Sea trade / The moon was but a chin of gold / What is it the wind has lost / Screen door / Headline / In the alley / Tall city / The first September breeze fluttered / November night / Between walls / Moonlight / Old truck / Fog / Uses for fog / Dust of snow / Snow fence / The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase / A wild winter wind / Winter twilight / Night / A welcome mat of moonlight / Cid Corman -- Raymond Souster -- William Carlos Williams -- Lillian Morrison -- Gerald Jonas -- Ralph Fletcher -- X.J. Kennedy -- Carl Sandburg -- Charlotte Zolotow -- Langston Hughes -- Joyce Sidman -- J. Patrick Lewis -- April Halprin Wayland -- Robert Morgan -- Robert Wallace -- Patricia Hubbell -- Emily Dickinson -- Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser -- James Stevenson -- Cid Corman -- Alice Schertle -- Susan Nichols Pulsifer -- Liz Rosenberg -- Adelaide Crapsey -- William Carlos Williams -- Bruce Balan -- Cynthia Pederson -- Carl Sandburg -- Eve Merriam -- Robert Frost -- Ted Kooser -- Charles Reznikoff -- Richard Wright -- Anne Porter -- Herbert Read -- Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser. Spring. Summer. Fall. Winter.

A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.

Ages 6-9.

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