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Ten Marbles is a collection of poems for children.The poems cover themes ranging from love for nature and animals to summertime fun and more!The book features writing and drawing activities, in addition to comprehension questions after selected poems.This collection is perfect for bedtime storytelling, classroom literacy activities, and inspiring children to write creatively. Ages 5-8 ... Read more

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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to cram for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work?

Turn to "Poetry for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: author biography; poem summary; poem text (if available); discussion of the work's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.

Why choose "Poetry for Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: Thomson Gale--and "Poetry for Students." ... Read more

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Le monde est encore

endormi

je fais quelques pas

dans le silence

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Term paper due tomorrow? Need to cram for a test? Or just looking for the best information about a favorite literary work?

Turn to "Poetry for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: author biography; poem summary; poem text (if available); discussion of the work's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.

Why choose "Poetry for Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: Thomson Gale--and "Poetry for Students." ... Read more

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Little Lamb's going to school today--and he's searching everywhere for Mary! Where could she be? Take your fluffy white puppet and unlock the gate so he can come in, look through the windows, open the closet door, and create a little mischief. But in the end (when you unfold the big, final spread) you'll see it's the PERFECT day for Lamb to visit the classroom...16 pages (all in color), 8 x 8
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Yes, you can pass the AP English Literature and Composition exam with ease! Just brush the dust off your thinking cap and get a little help from AP English Literature and Composition For Dummies. It gets you up to speed on all the topics and themes of the AP exam in a focused, step-by-step manner.

Beginning with an exam overview and ways to get the most out of an AP English class, this book has it all: long- and short-range planning advice, detailed chapters that discuss the four main literary genres, and two full-length practice exams — complete with detailed answer explanations and scoring guides. It helps you perfect the skills you need to get your best possible score. Two bonus appendixes provide a full list of teacher-recommended titles to choose from for the open-ended essay, as well as a quick grammar review to address the fundamentals of superior essay writing. Discover how to:

• Get familiar with the exam format and the types of questions you’ll face
• Figure out what the questions are really asking
• Maximize your score on multiple-choice questions
• Write effectively and eloquently about poetry, prose, and drama
• Prepare for paired passages and craft a clever open-ended essay
• Annotate poetry and prose like an expert

Passing the AP English Literature and Composition exam doesn’t have to be torture. Get AP English Literature and Composition For Dummies and find out how easy it can be. ... Read more

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Great AP prep book!
I wasn't sure about this because on places like [...] most kids were only talking about Barrons and Kaplan and other well known test prep books... but I found this one to be extremely helpful. It's meant not just as last-minute prep but to help you throughout the year, although I used it for last-minute. It's a really huge, thick book with lots of content. The practice tests were great, and there's a lot of solid advice that you can just sit down and read when you're in freak-out mode the week before the exam. I recommend it. ... Read more

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As soon as they say good night to Mama, the five little monkeys start to jump on their bed. But trouble lies ahead as, one by one, they fall off and hurt themselves. ... Read more

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Will make you wanna jump on the bed!
The official book for all those toddlers that love this song.(btw, the best version I have heard of the song is on Putomayo's Animal Playground.)

Five Little Monkeys
The pictures, layout, and the large print is very good.
Most of all I like the fact it has a CD to help young
ones who are not at reading level. It is also good
to play while in the car while going on long or short trips.

First book my daughter "reads" by heart
My 2.5-year-old daughter loves this book--both for me to read to her and for her to "read" to me. The pictures are clear and the additional text simple enough that she can read the pictures and get all the text right from memory.

Unusable Product
This book was a Christmas present for my son.It looked okay on the outside, but the board pages were detached from the binding and the middle pages were upside down! I was very disappointed. It was worse than buying it used.I ended up going to WalMart to purchase a similar one.

A Funny Rhyming Board Book for Rambunctious Readers
Most Americans are familiar with the popular nursery rhyme "Five Little Monkeys."Christelow takes this rhyme and illustrates it with cheery, lively colored-pencil illustrations, with a monkey mama and her five children.She opens the rhyme with a little bit of prose setup, as the monkeys prepare for bed -- then ends with a humorous illustration of mama jumping on her own bed, after the little monkeys finally fall asleep.

This story is about silliness, not moral instruction, but some parents may be concerned about the children's disobedience in persisting in their jumping. This is exacerbated by the fact that Mama later jumps on herown bed (although you might explain to bright children that adults are capable of safely engaging in activities that would be dangerous to children).In this sense the book can be taken as a cautionary tale against bed-jumping.But for most children it should be sufficient to explain that this story is intended to be silly, not serious.

The book is well illustrated, cheery, and lively, and toddlers will love the rhythmic repetition.One could wish that the opening and closing of the book rhymed as well, but it's still a fun read. ... Read more

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"In this book sparkling with atmosphere, a small boy experiences the joys of a snowy day. The brief, vividly expressed text points out his new awareness."--The Horn Book. A Caldecott Honor Book. Full color.Amazon.com Review

The Snowy Day, a 1963 Caldecott Medal winner, is the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night. Keats's illustrations, using cut-outs, watercolors, and collage, are strikingly beautiful in their understated color and composition. The tranquil story mirrors the calm presence of the paintings, and both exude the silence of a freshly snow-covered landscape. The little boy celebrates the snow-draped city with a day of humble adventures--experimenting with footprints, knocking snow from a tree, creating snow angels, and trying to save a snowball for the next day. Awakening to a winter wonderland is an ageless, ever-magical experience, and one made nearly visceral by Keats's gentle tribute.

The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. According to Horn Book magazine, The Snowy Day was "the very first full-color picture book to feature a small black hero"--yet another reason to add this classic to your shelves. It's as unique and special as a snowflake. ... Read more

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The Snowy Day
Purchased this book to participate in the yearly group reading.It is a good but not a great read for my grandchildren.We enjoyed it.

My sons favorite book of 2009
My son, who was 5 at the time, took this book out at the school library and loved it. He talked about it so much that his teacher gave him a copy for Christmas and we have read it together many times. Its a great book for kids between 4-8.Yo Ho Ho Merry Christmas

wonderful book
As with any book by Ezra Jack Keats, you cannot go wrong with the adventures of Peter on a Snowy Day.
His illustrations and text are beautiful and captivating.
Get this and anything else by this author and you will not be disappointed.
This is the essential EJK and won a caldecott, so no home with children should be without this book.

Childhood favorite
What I learned from this book? You cannot save a snowball in your pocket. Another book I liked in kindergarten.

Deserves all accolades
Every child should own this book.Please also look for Keats' other wonderful books such as Whistle For Willie, Louie, Apt. 3... ... Read more

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This Norton Critical Edition offers one of the largest collections ofMiddle English lyrics ever made available to the college student.It isthe only anthology which includes all thirty-one English lyrics from MSHarley 2253, all the verses by Friar Herebert printed in Brown XIV, andall the important poems given in Robbins' Secular Lyrics.

In all there are 245 lyrics, arranged thematically.

To make these delightful poems accessible to the modern reader, theeditors have removed many of the orthographic impediments inherent inMiddle English verse and have modernized punctuation, capitalization,and obsolete letters while scrupulously seeking to retain thesubstantive integrity of the poems.

"Critical and Historical Backgrounds" are provided in essays by PeterDronke, Stephen Manning, Raymond Oliver, and Rosemary Woolf. In aspecial section, six poems are singled out for critical comment by A.K. Moore, Edmund Reiss, D. W. Robertson, Jr., E. T. Donaldson, JohnSpeirs, Thomas Jemielity, D. G. Halliburton, Leo Spitzer, and others.

Two of these lyrics, "Maiden in the mor lay" and "I sing of a maiden,"are discussed by four different scholars. In all, twenty-five poems arediscussed in the essays.

The volume also includes a list of Abbreviations, a Table of TextualSources and Dates, a Select Bibliography, and an Index of First Lines. ... Read more

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Worldes blisse, have good day!
I first picked up this book nearly twenty years ago, and it has remained a favourite of mine.Middle English poetry is relatively hard to come by, particularly in the 'original' version.Of course, this is a slightly modified original (modern typeface, a few spelling conventions that warrant attention), but for the most part, this is the lyric poetry as it was originally written.There are a few photographs of original manuscripts, some with musical notation added to the words, for comparison.

This collection includes all of the poetry from the Harley manuscript (a piece from the Middle Ages which is the sole surviving copy of a good number of Middle English poems), all the verses from the Brown XIV manuscript by Friar Herebert, and most of the poems in 'Secular Lyrics' the Oxford edition by R.H. Robbins.There are nearly 250 poems in all.

These poems are arranged thematically, and show the diversity of interests in the Middle English culture.This was a culture that was very much in transition, shifting from its historic Anglo-Saxon roots to one that was more in touch in a peaceable way with the continent, become more urban in many respects, and becoming a blended culture in many ways.There are influences of court and church, French, Germanic tongues, Celtic influences, rural pastoral settings and new town experiences.'In their copiousness and variety, too, these poems - songs of love and death, God and nature, the pleasures of the table and the fears of damnation, the ebullience of youth and the melancholy of old age - form one of the great bodies of lyric verse in world literature.'

Middle English encompasses a long time period and a variety of dialects; from the immediate post-Norman Conquest times when the language of Anglo-Saxons jostled with the language of the Normans, up to the generations succeeding Chaucer, when the Germanic and Latinate influences had blended together in a wonderful way.

The editors of this text, Maxwell Luria and Richard Hoffman, have departed from certain conventions, such as declining to contrive titles for lyrics; they also freely confess their difficulties with some of the poetry, like the Harley manuscript (they are far from the only ones to have this difficulty), and, because this text is intended primarily for students, have not spent a great deal of time trying to sort out all of these issues in this text.

This Norton edition also includes essays, divided into two sorts.There are four essays dealing with Critical and Historical Background (essays on style, content, performance, and cross-cultural connections), and several essays that focus upon six specific poems, including the very famous 'Sumer is icumen in'.Although these six poems are highlighted, many others are referenced and discusses within the broader framework of the essays.

This is a glorious collection of verse, lesser known but that which should be known.The essays are interesting and useful for helping understanding.There are bibliographies and an index of first lines useful for students doing research.

A Myriad of Medieval Poetry
I am not a scholar, but here's my 2¢: It's difficult to find collections of Medieval English poetry; the most one can usually hope to find is a bit of Chaucer mixed with Renaissancepoetry.This collection provides awelcome relief with 245 poems separated into several categories: Religious,worldly, love, Christmas, bawdy, and more. My personal favorite is a 15thpoem which deals with racism. There are several essays, and all poems aredated and sourced. Why only 4 stars? The poems have been slightlymodernized, with regards to capitalization, punctuation,thorns and otherarchaic letters. ... Read more

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Harold Bloom suggests Chaucer is one of those great writers who defeat almost all criticism. This volume takes an extensive look at The Canterbury Tales, along with an examination of the ending of Troilus.

This title, Geoffrey Chaucer, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Geoffrey Chaucer, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more