Berthoud Community Library District

A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.

Presents Shakespeare's sonnets and major long poems, each with text notes on facing pages, and includes critical commentary, and a key to famous lines.

Features 32 works -- among them "The Convent Threshold," "Up-hill," "Cousin Kate," "Winter: My Secret," "Maude Clare," and celebrated title poem

Chinese Whispers is the British name of a game called Telephone in America. According to a certain "Professor Hoffmann" in his book Drawing Room Amusements (1879), "the participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or message to the next player, and so on round the circle. The original story is then compared with the final version, which has often changed beyond recognition." "Chinese Whispers" is also the superb title...

Discusses the history of poetic form, with examples. Includes chapters on the villanelle; the sestina; the pantoum; the sonnet; the ballad; blank verse; the heroic couplet; the stanza; meter; the elegy; the pastoral; the ode; and open forms.

Collection of stories told in verse.

"In her first collection, award-winning novelist Jo Walton delivers both subtle legends and reinvented realities. An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats"--Back cover.

A collection of verses that introduce such farm animals as chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep.

This is an anthology of 200 poems from the National Favorite Poem Project launched by Robert Pinsky and includes comments from participants in the project - Americans of diverse regions, ages, and backgrounds.