Synopsis: Is it hard to write poetry? In an old barn, a girl sits at a table and writes poems. She notices the rooster and the weather vane and how, in unexpected ways, they have much in common. She writes about writing poetry. It€™s not easy! Finally, in the late-night silence, €œa small gray verse runs squeaking down one of the rafters/just as the moon floats in through the double barn door.€ Discover fourteen extraordinary poems about the world around…

Synopsis: The illustrations of a Caldecott Medalist are combined with a seasonal selection of poems by twenty-five celebrated writers including William Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Richard Wright, and Edgar Allen Poe. Reprint.

Synopsis: A collection of humorous retellings of classic nursery rhymes by contemporary children's authors.