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English
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Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, Würbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
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Description
In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers.
Author
Publisher
Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"En doce distintivos poemas narrativos, las reconocidas autoras Alma Flor Ada y F. Isabel Campoy presentan una crónica de la rica diversidad de los latinos en Estados Unidos. Cada capítulo se complementa con un texto informativo sobre la historia, la cultura, los triunfos yo los retos de los latinos y pone de manifiesto las muchas formas en que celebran su identidad"--Page 4 of cover.
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Norte
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Un cantar de gesta anónimo que relata hazañas heroicas inspiradas libremente en los últimos años de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar el Campeador; incluyen análisis critico, panorama general de la literature española de la edad media, esquema de los principales acontecimientos históricos y culturales desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, y sinopsis y comentarios de la obra.
16) Hiawatha
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.
17) The highwayman
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about the highwayman and his true love, the innkeeper's daughter.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the poem "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas"--written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in the Troy Sentinel--a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. With gorgeous monochrome illustrations...
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