New Releases by John Ciardi

A little boy who''s about to turn six years old is thinking about cake and toys and the best birthday gift of all, a puppy. Daddy tells him to look for a Wish-Tree, on the bark of which is engraved TAKECAREOFYOURWISH. The boy falls asleep as he ponders his father''s advice, and he dreams of a Wish-Tree, with a trunk as big as a house and so tall that the sky had to bump up to get over the top of it. A remarkable adventure follows, involving the limitless nature of wishing and responsibility. Written by the noted teacher and poet John Ciardi, this fanciful tale is filled with inventive, dreamlike drawings by Louis S. Glanzman, illustrator of the Pippi Longstocking books.

Presents a collection of 450 poems that originally appeared in twenty individual volumes published between 1940 and 1993

Essays reveal the author's thoughts on the painstaking craftmanship involved in the art of writing poetry.

"Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II." From Amazon.

Poems deal with intimacy, memories, dreams, spring, mortality, jealousy, and shared lives.

‘Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . . The entertaining verses are varied as to length, rhythm, and subject and are illustrated with harmoniously amusing drawings.’ —BL.

Examines the usage and origins of American language expressions.

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet.

A witty collection of more than 550 limericks from two world-famous writers, and all of them just ''naughty'' enough to make this ''literary form'' hilarious fun! Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Thirty-four humorous and nonsense poems, including "A Fog Full of Apes, " "A Fine Fat Fireman, " and "I Should Never Have Trusted That Bird."

Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

Responsibility and reality are the author's primary interests in this collection of works.

A collection of essays reprinted from the author's column in the Saturday review.

16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic.

Fancies, fantasies and fun verses about nature and the personal rules of life.

Selections of pieces by the poetry editor of the "Saturday review". Includes criticism of poets and poetry and letters sent to Ciardi from his readers.

The story of the grasshopper and the ant with a distinctive American flavor.

New poems by the poetry editor of "The Saturday Review of literature".

For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game.

A collection of twenty-five humorous and nonsense poems.

Twenty-three poems for children that are funny and gentle and gay.