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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 811.0083520313 EAN: 9780060277673 ISBN: 006027767X Label: HarperCollins Manufacturer: HarperCollins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 40 Publication Date: April 30, 1999 Publisher: HarperCollins Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Release Date: April 07, 1999 Studio: HarperCollins Sales Rank: 489592 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council Average Rating:
 Rating: - This is Poetry!Lee Bennett Hopkins asked me several years ago to write a poem about Helen Keller. The result is included in this volume of poems for children. I insisted that Anne Sullivan be included in the poem because if you read Keller's autobiography you will see the way she sees Sullivan is part of herself. It affected me very much and the result is "Till". The rest of this unusual volume (see review by a teacher in Customer Reviews) is unusual in two ways. First, there is real poetry here. ... Read More Rating: - One of a kindNever have I seen a poetry book like this one. This is a teacher's dream. Use this in the classroom to 'spark' an interest in Helen Keller, Buzz Aldrin, Langston Hughes, or Eleanor Roosevelt. Feed the fascination for John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Langston Hughes or Babe Ruth. Powerful and poetic 'moments in time' of some of our greatest Americans. This book is for everyone. Browse for similar items by category:
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