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1) Thunder underground

Author

Yolen, Jane

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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A collection of poems explores the underground, from animal burrows and subways to caves and magma. Includes scientific and personal notes on the poems.

2) The scarlet circus

Author

Yolen, Jane

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"A rakish fairy meets the real Juliet behind Shakespeare's famous tragedy. A jewelry artist travels to the past to meet a successful silver-smith. The addled crew of a ship at sea discovers a mysterious merman. More than one ignored princess finds her match in the most unlikely men. From ecstasy to tragedy, with love blossoming shyly, love at first sight, and even love borne of practical necessity--beloved fantasist Jane Yolen's newest collection...

3) The Alligator's Smile: And Other Poems

Author

Yolen, Jane

Language

English

Description

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Get up close and personal with alligators in all their tooth-filled glory in this poetry collection by New York Times bestselling author Jane Yolen. Rhymes and rhythms reflect on how alligators hunt, keep warm, and care for young.

4) Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck

Author

Yolen, Jane

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook

Description

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Warning: this book sucks! It bites, slurps, and sticks too. Dare to open these pages and you'll find ticks, mosquitos, stingrays, elephants, jellyfish, and the particularly sucky lamprey. Sixteen slurpy poems from Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple introduce a suction-filled selection of animals, and spectacularly sticky...

5) Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs

Author

Yolen, Jane

Language

English

Description

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Macabre, ironic, and witty epitaphs share how prehistoric creatures like the terror bird, the woolly mammoth, and the T-rex met their demise. The ever-entertaining J. Patrick Lewis and the inimitable Jane Yolen offer a collection organized by era, with posthumous poems paired with short secondary text providing additional, factual information about each creature.

6) Emily Writes: Emily Dickinson and Her Poetic Beginnings

Author

Yolen, Jane

Language

English

Description

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Jane Yolen's Emily Writes is an imagined and evocative picture book account of Emily Dickinson's childhood poetic beginnings, featuring illustrations by Christine Davenier. As a young girl, Emily Dickinson loved to scribble curlicues and circles, imagine new rhymes, and connect with the natural world around her. The sounds, sights, and smells of home swirled through her mind, and Emily began to explore writing and rhyming her thoughts and impressions....

7) Shape Me a Rhyme: Nature's Forms in Poetry

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Wordsong

Pub. Date

c2007

Language

English

Description

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Combines poetry and photographs to illustrate shapes in nature.

8) Bird watch: a book of poetry

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Philomel

Pub. Date

1990

Language

English

Description

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A collection of poems describing a variety of birds and their activities.

9) O Jerusalem

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Scholastic, Inc

Pub. Date

c1996

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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A poetic tribute to Jerusalem, in honor of the 3000th anniversary of its founding, celebrating its history as a holy city for three major religions.

10) The three bears holiday rhyme book

Author

Yolen, Jane

Language

English

Description

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A collection of poems depicting various holidays as they might be celebrated by Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

11) Dinosaur dances

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Putnam

Pub. Date

c1990

Language

English

Description

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Seventeen whimsical poems featuring allosaurus, stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus, and other dancing dinosaurs.

12) In and out the Window

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Philomel

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

Description

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Accompanied by enchanting artwork, this brilliant collection of more than 100 poems from the legendary author celebrates childhood, showing just how wonderful it is to be a kid.

13) Birds of a feather: poems

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Wordsong

Pub. Date

[2011]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Poetry about birds plus facts about and photographs of birds.

14) Body music: poems about the noises your body makes

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

Moon Shower

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

Description

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"[Presents] fifteen hilarious poems that celebrate the sounds of the human body, from sniffles to snaps, sneezes to wheezes, hiccups to yawns, and more!"--Back cover.

15) Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices With a Twist -- Poems

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publisher

WordSong

Pub. Date

[2013], c2013

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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What were all those fairy-tale characters thinking? Jane Yolen and Rebecca Kai Dotlich answer this question in paired poems, with sometimes startling results. The Princess claims all those mattresses kept her awake?not a silly pea?while the poor pea complains that the princess snores. One Snow White begs the witch to settle by the bay and throw that mirror away. Another boldly tells the mirror she ?won?t be guided by a glass that?s so one-sided.?...