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The Stone Lamp: A Hanukkah Collection: Eight Days of Dark, Eight Nights of Light

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By Karen Hesse, illustrated by Brian Pinkney

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A collection of eight poems, each taking place on a different night of Hanukkah and following the history of Jews from twelfth-century England to twentieth-century Israel.

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Poems for Jewish Holidays

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By Myra Cohn Livingston

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These sixteen poems, twelve by modern authors, run the course from playful to traditional to moving as the Jewish year of celebrations unfolds.

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Grandparents Song

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By Sheila Hamanaka

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All the many cultures of grandparents in America are celebrated in this lovely, rhyming book.
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Locomotion

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By Jacqueline Woodson

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In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

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Poetry Books for Kids

Mon, 05/04/2009 - 17:21 | Caroline Parr
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          Poetry books are well represented on library shelves and eagerly checked out by readers raised on Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss. Fans of their humor and wordplay will love Adam Rex’s two monstrous poetry collections, “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich” and the brand-new ”Frankenstein Takes the Cake.” Each book features poems about famous monsters – Dracula, the Phantom of the Opera, Bigfoot – and their trials and tribulations. 

Meant to Be Read Aloud

Mon, 05/04/2009 - 12:00 | Ed DeButts
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"In a poem, the secrets of the poem give it its tension and gift of emerging sense and form, so that it’s not always the flowering in the poem and the specific images that make it memorable, but the tensions and physicality, the rhythms, the underlying song.

The high spots of a poem could be said to correspond with the bloom in the garden. But you need the compositional entity in order to convey the weight and force of the poem’s motion, of its emerging meaning.