Berthoud Community Library District

In this version of Clement Moores' classic poem, a brother and sister struggle to stay awake until midnight to ring in the new year.

Illustrated rendition of the traditional holiday poem, including line drawings that show verses in Signed English.

Constantly suffering from the cold, Sam makes his companion on the Arctic trail promise to cremate him when he dies, which the companion does--to his great surprise.

In this narrative poem told in Cajun dialect, Pierre the alligator is left behind in the bayou after helping Santa pull his skiff on Christmas Eve.

The well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor. Presented in Spanish.

In this episode, the hero Hiawatha, son of the West Wind, is grown to manhood -a powerful figure, righting wrongs and vanquishing demons. Inspired by his grandmother, Nokomis, he travels into a desolate land to challenge an evil magician. Hiawatha slays serpents, evades ghosts, and finally confronts the mighty Megissogwon.

Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

The first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. Tolkien's only venture into the legends of Arthur, this may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of Old English alliterative meter, where he brings to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful...