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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 811.3 EAN: 9781402754777 ISBN: 1402754779 Label: Sterling Manufacturer: Sterling Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: April 01, 2008 Publisher: Sterling Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Studio: Sterling Related Items:
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 Rating: - Young People's Guide to Walt WhitmanI think this is a wonderful guide to poetry by Walt Whitman. I was able to learn something about his poetry myself. The illustrations are very good and the poetry is presented in manageable pieces. That is important for teachers who are teaching the poetry. Rating: - THE BOOK IS A WORK OF ART AND OF COURSE SO IS THE POETRYI cannot think of a better way to introduce the poetry of Walt Whitman than this small volume. The selection is excellent and of interest you the young reader. The commentary is quite relevant as are the pictures which accompany it. I find that often now, our young people go all the way through the early grades in school and many of them have never heard of Walt Whitman, much less read their poetry. This was the sort of stuff my generation and the generation before it grew up on and cut our teeth ... Read More Rating: - A beautifully illustrated introduction to a great poetEditor Jonathan Levin and illustrator Jim Burke have put together a wonderful introduction to the poetry of Walt Whitman. Although marketed as a children's book, this volume will also appeal to older admirers of the "Good Gray Poet." Levin has judiciously selected some of Whitman's most memorable poems, and thoughtfully gives definitions of potentially unfamiliar words ("Pleiades," "hieroglyphic," etc.) at the bottom of each page. A five page biography of Whitman at the start of the book is ... Read More 
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