April 02, 2006

Something different

For poetry month, and because while updating my list yesterday of What We're Reading, Watching, Listening To & Playing With/The Poetry Month Edition, I managed to delete half of my template, I thought I'd also include that list here. Now go hound those interlibrary loan librarians!

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work, from Tennyson to Plath (book and cds), edited by Elise Paschen
Poetry Speaks to Children (book and cd), edited by Elise Paschen

A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn About the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles, and Made Us Laugh and Cry (book and cd), edited by Michael Driscoll and illustrated by Meredith Hamilton

A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children, edited by Caroline Kennedy and illustrated by Jon J. Muth
The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, edited by Caroline Kennedy

Poetry Out Loud, edited by Robert Alden Rubin

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman and illustrated by Eric Beddows

Favorite Poems Old and New, edited by Helen Ferris

The Caedmon Poetry Collection: A Century of Poets Reading Their Work (audio cd); ignore the publisher's sloppy labeling job and just sit back and listen

Seven Ages: An Anthology of Poetry with Music (audio cd) by Naxos AudioBooks

Voice of the Poet: Robert Frost (audio cd), from Random House's "Voice of the Poet" series
Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes (audio cd), from Random House's "Voice of the Poet" series. Search for "Voice of the Poet" at Powell's, Amazon, B&N for the rest of the series.

Poetry for Young People series; includes volumes of poetry by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Coleridge, Longfellow,and more; very nicely done

Emily by Michael Bedard and illustrated by the marvelous Barbara Cooney
The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires
"The Belle of Amherst" on DVD; Julie Harris in the one-woman stage production about the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson

"The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1934) on video, starring Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Frederic March as Robert Browning
The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, illustrated by Kate Greenaway

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You by John Ciardi and illustrated by the fabulous Edward Gorey
How Does a Poem Mean? by John Ciardi

Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People, edited by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?: Teaching Great Poetry to Children by Kenneth Koch
Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry by Kenneth Koch
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch

Beyond Words: Writing Poems with Children by Elizabeth McKim and Judith Steinbergh

A Crow Doesn't Need a Shadow: A Guide to Writing Poetry from Nature by Lorraine Ferra and Diane Boardman

Magnetic Poetry (something for everyone)

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