Best Selling Books by John Ciardi

‘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.

"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.

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

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

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

16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examines the usage and origins of American language expressions.

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