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Published
New York : Hyperion/Hyperion Books for Children 2005.
Language
English
Other Authors
Caroline Kennedy, 1957- (-), Jon J. Muth (illustrator)
Edition
1st ed
Item Description
Ten poems appear twice, first in the body of the book in English, and then in the back in their original language.
Physical Description
143 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780786851119
  • Introduction
  • About Me
  • The Early Morning
  • Me
  • First Fig
  • Second Fig
  • This Is Just to Say
  • To P.J. (2 yrs. old who sed write a poem for me in Portland, Oregon)
  • The Reason I Like Chocolate
  • Michael Is Afraid of the Storm
  • "Hope" Is the Thing with Feathers
  • I May, I Might, I Must
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  • Has My Heart Gone to Sleep?
  • The Road Not Taken
  • Psalm 23: 1-6
  • That's So Silly!
  • There Was an Old Man of West Dumpet
  • There Was an Old Man of Blackheath
  • The Little Man Who Wasn't There
  • Moses
  • Happiness
  • "Amelia Mixed the Mustard"
  • Careless Willie
  • To a Fellow Poet
  • Daddy Fell Into the Pond
  • The People Upstairs
  • From Falling in Love Is Like Owning a Dog
  • Today Is Very Boring
  • The Emperor of Ice-Cream
  • Some Opposites
  • Animals
  • Epigram: Engraved on the Collar of a Dog
  • Roger the Dog
  • The Song of the Mischievous Dog
  • The Porcupine
  • The Sloth
  • Peacockfeather
  • Ode to the Goose
  • Mr. Mistoffelees
  • An Old Silent Pond
  • Farewell! Like a Bee
  • The Frog
  • The Little Turtle
  • Little Trotty Wagtail
  • "Hurt No Living Thing"
  • The Last Word of a Bluebird As Told to a Child
  • Saint Francis and the Sow
  • The Crocodile
  • The Tyger
  • Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack
  • Buffalo Dusk
  • Elephant
  • The Eagle
  • The Seasons
  • Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
  • April Rain Song
  • in Just-
  • Pippa's Song
  • The Pasture
  • The Daffodils
  • Ariel's Song
  • The Rose Family
  • "And What Is So Rare As a Day in June?"
  • "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
  • Who Has Seen the Wind?
  • These are the days when Birds come back
  • Thoughts
  • Something Told the Wild Geese
  • from Ode to a Pair of Socks
  • Snow in the Suburbs
  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • A Visit from St. Nicholas
  • little tree
  • Iroquois Prayer
  • The Seashore
  • Sea Joy
  • maggie and milly and molly and may
  • Sea Shell
  • "Full Fathom Five" from The Tempest, Act I, sc.i
  • The Octopus
  • The Mock Turtle's Song
  • A Jelly-Fish
  • Seashell
  • The Fish
  • Sea-Fever
  • Adventure
  • The Swing
  • This Is the Key
  • A Fairy in Armor
  • The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
  • Good Hotdogs
  • The Red Wheelbarrow
  • Afternoon on a Hill
  • Goblin Feet
  • The Song of Wandering Aengus
  • Scaffolding
  • from Song of the Open Road
  • The Rider
  • "Do not be afraid of no"
  • When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
  • Harlem Night Song
  • Bedtime
  • Bed in Summer
  • "Sweet and Low"
  • Silver
  • If You'll Only Go to Sleep
  • from The Bed Book
  • The Plumpuppets
  • Dream Variations
  • The Moon
  • from Imagine Angels
  • Keep a Poem in Your Pocket
  • The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
  • Foreign Poems in Their Original Languages
  • Index of First Lines
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

Gr. 4-7, younger for reading aloud. The Best-loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis0 was a surprise best-seller, and this equally personal collection will also garner much attention. There's a varied selection here, though weighted toward old (in some cases old, old) favorites: Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snow Evening," a piece of Whitman's "Song of the Open Road," Sandburg's "Buffalo Dusk." Certainly some of those oldies, such as Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs," have a rambunctious child appeal, and animal lovers will be glad to see cats and dogs represented in poems such as Dylan Thomas' "The Song of the Mischievous Dog." Among the contemporary poets included are Jack Prelutsky, Nikki Giovanni, and Sandra Cisneros. A short, delightful poem about the sea by a young Jacqueline Bouvier (Onassis) is tucked into the section entitled "Seashore." Other topical chapters include "About Me," "That's So Silly," and "Bedtime." Tying everything together are Muth's engaging watercolors, which are as adept in catching the humor of some poems as they are in reflecting the power of others. Children who might not readily take to poetry may be lured by art, which continually delights. Kennedy personalizes the book with an introduction. A roundup of foreign poems in their original languages and a first-line index are appended. --Ilene Cooper Copyright 2005 Booklist

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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Kennedy, who created the anthology The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for adult readers, gives this winsome collection a personal feel. In her introduction, she describes the pivotal role poetry has played in her life and introduces each of the book's sections with relevant anecdotes from her childhood. Throughout her commentary, Kennedy articulately underscores the importance of reading and appreciating poetry and urges children to express themselves through this medium. She organizes the 106 poems into seven categories, all seminal to a youngster's life, including "About Me," "Animals," "Adventure" and "Bedtime." The expansive range of poets represented include those renowned for their writing for children (A.A. Milne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Prelutsky, Edward Lear) and those whose work has thrilled readers of all ages (Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandberg, William Shakespeare, plus Psalm 23 and Ecclesiastes 3:1-8). Kennedy also selected two thoughtful poems of rhymed verse penned by her mother (credited to Jacqueline Bouvier), one a melancholy ode to autumn, the other an affectionate paean to the seashore. Providing stunning backdrops for these timeless works are Muth's richly textured watercolor paintings, which capture with remarkable insight the spirit of each poem. He is as adept at humor in the "That's So Silly!" section, which teems with clownish characters, as he is dramatic realism in undersea views of octupus or jellyfish. This resonant volume deserves a permanent-and prominent-place on any family bookshelf. All ages. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 2 Up-From the cover photograph of Kennedy as a toddler "reading" to her teddy to the red linen-textured endpapers; from her thoughtful introduction and words of encouragement to children at the beginning of each section of carefully chosen poems to Muth's beautifully executed watercolors, this volume is a treasure. In compiling the collection, Kennedy passes on her own family's tradition of creating a scrapbook of poems chosen by the children in lieu of gifts to their mother and grandparents. Divided by topic into seven sections, the collection is, indeed, a treasury of beloved poems written in a variety of styles by poets from many lands and generations, some more familiar than others, some unknown. Most of the soft-focus illustrations fill whole pages. The wide variety of artistic styles-ethereal, realistic, comical, energetic, sweet, romantic-matches the mood of the poems themselves. The 10 translated selections appear at the end of the volume in their original languages. This well-balanced anthology should be a first purchase for school and public libraries. Recommend it as a gift book for parents to share with their children, as well.-Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Horn Book Review

This collection features over one hundred poems cherished by Kennedy's family. Appealing to a broad audience, most of the verses are traditional, but a number are contemporary, many from different cultures. Muth's sensitive watercolors, often on expansive double-page spreads, extend the poems. Two pages of ""Foreign Poems in Their Original Languages"" are included. Ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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