Best Selling Books by John Ciardi

Poems deal with a wide range of subjects including love, death, marriage, war, and nature

"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".--Booklist.

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.

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

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

A collection of twenty-five humorous and nonsense poems.

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.

A collection of limericks about such characters as the Elephant Boy, the fast fiddler from Middletown, and the silly old skinflint named Quince.

Poems deal with happiness, fragility, crime, education, parenthood, friendship, mortality, dreams, knowledge, and nature

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.