Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Samuel Byrd, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0957-0
True to the book's subtitle, Livingston's ( Space Songs ; A Circle of Seasons ) brief text reads much like a song that features intermittent rhyme, phrases from King's speeches and the repeated refrain: ``From every mountainside, let freedom ring....
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Trina Schart Hyman, Illustrator Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0631-9
Cat lovers will adore this sprightly collection of poems, which honor the mysteries of that ""Affectionate fellow Occasional grouch,'' the cat. Poems by such writers as Karla Kuskin, Valerie Worth, John Ciardi, Eleanor Farjeon and X. J. Kennedy are...
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator Holiday House $14.95 (27p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0615-9
Like the previous Sky Songs and Sea Songs from the same collaborators, this picture book celebrates the beauty of the physical world. The poet asks the ""Little O, small earth'' to ``say its secrets,'' and the earth answers with an invitation to...
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator Holiday House $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0591-6
With a brilliant economy of words, Livingston tells of the various aspects of the sea, as reflected in the sun and the moon. The power of the waves, the creatures within the sea, the bright beaches, the depths of the ocean where light of neither sun
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Leonard Everett Fisher, Illustrator, Leonard Everett Fisher, Photographer Holiday House $15.95 (31p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0675-3
On pages black as the night sky, Fisher and Livingston explore the meteors, satellites, messages and planets, of that ""other world, an otherwhere'' that is called space. As in their past collaborations (Sky Songs, Sea Songs, Earth Songs) the poems...
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Will Hillenbrand, Illustrator , illus. by Will Hillenbrand. Holiday $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-1725-4
Hillenbrand’s (What a Treasure!)
joyous mixed-media illustrations playfully beckon youngsters to skip through the 12 months of the year while reading this picture-book version of a poem first published in 1959 by the late Livingston....
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Joyce Livingston, Author, Eileen Christelow, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $13.95 (68p) ISBN 978-0-689-50466-2
In this jaunty collection of poems from celebrated poet and anthologist Livingston, old favorites like Robert Louis Stevenson's ``The Swing'' and Edward Lear's ``The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'' sit side by side with works by N. M. Bodecker, David McCord,
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Patience Brewster, Photographer Holiday House $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0587-9
This collectionlike receiving an unexpected Valentineis absolutely delightful. A companion to Livingston's other holiday poetry collections, the poems range from the traditional ""Roses are Red'' to the whimsical ``courtship swoon by a midnight moon/
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Myra Cohn Livingston, Author, Margot Tomas, Illustrator, Margot Tomes, Photographer Holiday House $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0641-8
This diverse and engaging colleciton of poems for the New Year is a companion to Livingston's other holiday collections. A wide range of poetry with a variety of rhythms and tones comprehensively includes ""Ring Out, Wild Bells'' by Tennyson, as...
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