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Our Garage

Kathleen Urmston (author) Barbara Dragony (illustrator)

Publisher: Kaeden Books ISBN: 9781641324373

Cleaning the garage can be a lot of work, but this rhyming text makes it seem like fun.

The Balloon Ride

Mary E. Pearson (author) Barbara Spurll (illustrator)

Publisher: Kaeden Books ISBN: 9781641323161

Circus animals embark on a hot air balloon adventure. Unfortunately for them, what goes up must come down. Repetition and rhyme enhance this playful story.

The Bumble Bee

Susie Szymanek (author) Gloria Gedeon (illustrator)

Publisher: Kaeden Books ISBN: 9781641323277

Vivid illustrations and rhythmic rhyming text bring an exciting encounter to life.

A Bunny Is Funny

Harriet Ziefert (author) Todd McKie (illustrator)

Publisher: Blue Apple Books ISBN: 9781949801255

A moose, an owl, and an elephant are just a few of the animals that show up in this fun foray into rhyming.

The Mighty Steam Engine

Yvonne Ng (author) Richard Smythe (illustrator)

Publisher: Amicus Publishing ISBN: 9781681525181

Using the rhyming poetic structure of This is the House that Jack Built, author Yvonne Ng takes young readers on a cumulative path through the inner workings of a steam engine, from the big wheels rolling on the tracks all the way to the engineer driving the train.

Spring Blossoms

Carole Gerber (author) Leslie Evans (illustrator)

Publisher: Charlesbridge ISBN: 9781607345756

Spring is in the air - and in the trees! Spring is here, and with the new season come trees full of life, color...and blossoms! From the creators of Leaf Jumpers and Winter Trees, Spring Blossoms introduces readers to a variety of different flowering trees. During a stroll through the forest, two children come across the small and white flowers on a crab apple tree, the rich, red buds on a red maple, and many more. Along the way, readers learn that some trees have both male and female flowers—each with a distinctive appearance. Back matter includes extended botanical facts and more information about trees and their life cycles.Told in lyrical rhymes with beautiful linoleum-cut illustrations, Spring Blossoms offers a unique blend of science, poetry, and art studies.

Pizza and Other Stinky Poems

Harriet Ziefert (author) Amanda Haley (illustrator)

Publisher: Blue Apple Books ISBN: 9781949801132

What stinky fun: these entertaining verses talk about smelly stuff, like onions and skunks--and good things, such as pizza and peanut butter too. From "Whoever Sau-sage a Thing?" to "Fresh Fish," it's pure aromatic amusement sure to appeal to any kid's sense of humor. 

Are You My Brown Bear?

Harriet Ziefert (author) Christina O Donovan (illustrator)

Publisher: Blue Apple Books ISBN: 9781948621076

In a series of endearing illustrations, one bear after another explains why he isn't quite the one a little girl is seeking. With rhymes, repetition, and adjectives, kids will pick up a plethora of language as they find out which bear is the girl's teddy bear.

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426209

The Song of Hiawatha is an epic poem inspired after the Ojibwe - a Native American tribe - myths and legends. Read about the making of the world we live in and about the adventures of Hiawatha - the hero who invented written language and discovered corn - as seen by one Amerindian tribe.

The Odyssey

Homer (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425691

Homer's Odyssey is a ancient Greek epic poem and the sequel to The Iliad. Attributed to Homer, the edition has been translated as prose by Samuel Butler. The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero, Odysseus, and his journey home after the fall of Troy.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Ovid (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425486

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is an epic poem comprised of many Greek and Roman myths. The Metamorphoses may be the most influential text on Western literature and certainly the most influential poem. Ovid's telling of the myths have been retold countless times in many different mediums.

The Divine Comedy: The Inferno

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424656

The first section of Dante's Divine Comedy. In the first part of Divine Comedy, Dante, guided by the poet Virgil, plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. By fusing humor and satire with intellect, an immortal Christian allegory of humankind’s search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment was created.

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424649

The second section of Dante's Divine Comedy. It opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell and follows his journey through Purgatory where he observes famous historical figures working through their sins.

The Divine Comedy: Paradise

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424632

The third and final section of Dante's Divine Comedy. In this volume, Dante presents a vision of Paradise relying on suggestion rather than concrete description. A journey through the realms of Paradise culminating in a vision of God. This poem also portrays the individual's struggle to attain spiritual illumination.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424717

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the people of Uruk.

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffery Chaucer (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424373

When a group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral meet on the road, they agree to tell stories to pass the time. Each story reflects a different segment of society, from the pious to the bawdy, and has given countless readers a look into fourteenth-century English life. The stories can be read on their own or as part of the entire work and have been translated from their original middle English by D. Lain Purves.

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424045

In Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein played by her own rules; she dismissed the basic rules of the English language, dismantled the sentence and rearranged it as she pleased. The result? Free your mind and read!

William Shakespeare: Poems

William Shakespeare (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423581

Besides his notorious plays, William Shakespeare wrote many poems throughout his life, including 154 sonnets as well as many lyric descriptions from the Greek and Roman mythology like Venus and Adonis or The Rape of Lucrece. In all of them, the Bard of Avon twisted and bent the rules of the Old English language creating a unique and stupendous lyric masterpiece that awe us to this day.

Victor Hugo: Poems

Victor Hugo (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423598

Victor Hugo is not only known for his complex novels but also for his beautiful poetry. In his poems, Hugo touches a variety of subjects, from religion and royalism to nature and liberalism all striving to be spontaneous and sublime.

Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Anne Brontë (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423604

Although best-known for their novels, the Brontë sisters also left us a number of widely anthologised pieces of verse.

Prosepine and Midas

Mary Shelley (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423642

A short collection of two mythological dramatic works. A combination of Mary Shelley's drama and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems. Midas and Prosepine are two plays that were written originally as children's literature.

Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

Marie de France (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423253

Although she was born in France, Marie spent almost all her life in England, at the royal court of King Henry II, in the 12th century. There she wrote a series of rhymed fairy tales known as Breton lai or lays inspired from the ancient Greeks and Romans. Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France are a collection of 12 such poems written to both instruct and entertain the reader.

Don Juan

Lord Byron (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532422225

Don Juan is an epic poem by Lord Byron about a womanizing Spaniard who is sent away for dishonoring his family. His adventures lead him through slave markets and royal courts until he grows into a man who can be admired.

Christmas Eve

Robert Browning (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532421969

When the poet finds himself outside a church on Christmas Eve, he ventures inside and finds a conversation he never considered.

Chamber Music

James Joyce (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532421945

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication.