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By The River

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother’s death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.

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Today and Today

By auraenid | Published: July 2, 2007

Collection of small poems-haiku-by the haiku master, Issa. These Haiku bring to light the preciousness of this moment, and the wonder of today. Poem by poem, the cycle of this family’s life together unfolds with moments of simple joy and difficult loss-moments.

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Julia

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 15, 2007

A story of a girl, Julia Burgos, born into a humble Puerto Rican family in 1914. With beautiful illustrations, it re-creates the time in which she grew up, and narrates how Julia Burgos became one of Puerto Rico’s and Latin America’s most beloved poets.

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Let’s Play In The Forest

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 13, 2007

In this adaptation of the traditional French and Latin American song, animals play in the forest while a scary wolf slowly dresses and becomes hungrier and hungrier.

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Drumbeat In Our Feet

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 7, 2007

The beauty of African dances is explained by introducing the history and the energy of African dances.The poetic rhythms of African dance are the instrument of the poem flow. Illustrative medium ; watercolor & colored pencil

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19 Varieties Of Gazelle: Poems Of The Middle East

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States.

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The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems And Paintings From The Middle East

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A collection of poetry and artistic works by people from the Middle East invites readers to explore a mosaic of culture, tradition, and common human ground, and includes additional notes of interest about the contributors.

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The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere open windows into the hearts and souls of people we usually meet only on the nightly news. What [...]

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If You’re Not From The Prairie–

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A boy provides a look at life on the prairies of North America and describes the effects of the climate on the people like him who grow up in the heartland of the continent.

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Mixed Beasts, Or, A Miscellany Of Rare And Fantastic Creatures

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

These original nonsense poems about a miscellany of odd beasts comprised of a mixture of two species, such as a Rhinocerostrich, a Bumblebeaver, a Kangarooster, and a Camelelephant, are clever and funny.

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