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Arrow Book of Poetry
Book in great condition. Pages have some tanning due to age, but no marks, tears or writing. Soft cover has minimal shelf wear, no tears. Ships from Mira Loma. bx6
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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Ann McGovern
103 books49 followersAnn McGovern Scheiner (née Weinberger) was an American writer of more than 55 children's books, selling over 30 million copies. She may be best known for her adaptation of Stone Soup, as well as Too Much Noise, historical and travel non-fiction, and biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman and Deborah Sampson Gannett and Eugenie Clark.
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August 6, 2015
Arrow Book of Poetry is an old Scholastic Book Services book (remember Lucky and Arrow Book Club from grade school?) of poems for grade school children, divided by themes: "Wishes and Feelings," "Creatures Large," "Creatures Small," "Weather Moods," "Town and City Moments," "Long Ago," and "From Season to Season." I picked this up because I teach English to ninth graders, and when I introduce various aspects of poetry, I need short, simple poems that illustrate those various aspects. Arrow Book of Poetry provides many good examples that I plan to incorporate into my instruction, but I was also pleasantly surprised by how much enjoyment I got out of these poems just for reading them for themselves alone. One of the reasons I read science fiction is for the "sense of wonder" I get from contemplating mind-stretching ideas. But I got a different sense of wonder from reading these simple verses--the sense of wonder from stopping to contemplate the ordinary, everyday world around us.
October 14, 2012
This was a nice little collection! I've had it since I was little, but I never made the time to read it until now. It was a quick read, but I spent more time on the ones I enjoyed the most. They are all short--the longest were only two pages.
Many of the poems were charming and fun. Some of them were ho-hum, in my opinion. There was a good mix of authors. There were some famous ones (Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings) and some that I'd never heard of--however, I don't read a whole lot of poetry, so I wouldn't necessarily know.
The poems are all pretty lighthearted and playful. They're grouped into themes by chapter, with some about animals, some about weather, some about cities... etc. Oh, and I also wanted to mention how the book is actually printed. The ink is all a dark green instead of black, which gives it a different feel, and there are illustrations (all in green ink) that more-or-less go along with the poems. I love it!
Many of the poems were charming and fun. Some of them were ho-hum, in my opinion. There was a good mix of authors. There were some famous ones (Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings) and some that I'd never heard of--however, I don't read a whole lot of poetry, so I wouldn't necessarily know.
The poems are all pretty lighthearted and playful. They're grouped into themes by chapter, with some about animals, some about weather, some about cities... etc. Oh, and I also wanted to mention how the book is actually printed. The ink is all a dark green instead of black, which gives it a different feel, and there are illustrations (all in green ink) that more-or-less go along with the poems. I love it!
May 15, 2016
We didn't get through all of these as a class, but it's an excellent collection of poems kids like. Lucky me: my copy was scribbled through and through by the teacher who owned it before me. We had some good discussions. A great mix of authors and poems. Funny, serious, beautiful...there's at least one of each.
January 21, 2010
The voice of the last cricket
Across the first frost
is one kind of good-by
It is so thin a splinter of singing.
Across the first frost
is one kind of good-by
It is so thin a splinter of singing.
January 20, 2026
A good book of scholastic poetry.
Poems of the natural world full of whimsy, wonder, and occasional profundity.
Sandburg, Frost, Langston Hughes; Cummings, Millay, John Ciardi; Dorothy Aldis, Rossetti, Yeats, and numerous award winning children's poetry winners, some of whom are pulitzer prize winners.
Some poems present the reader with reality—naked, stark, truthful reality. This book would likely be banned by the current fascist regime, as reality does not comport with their agenda.
Sandburg reminds us that:
"The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by the thousands and how they
pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs,
their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant
of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone."
And John Fandel began having thoughts about Indians—
"Indians once living/Where we are now living."
These are the sorts of facts and views that dipshit fascist dupes like Elon Musk decry as treasonous, insisting that educators asserting such things should be imprisoned; you know, because as a self—proclaimed free-speech absolutist he opposes censorship and big government usurping our rights.
Poems of the natural world full of whimsy, wonder, and occasional profundity.
Sandburg, Frost, Langston Hughes; Cummings, Millay, John Ciardi; Dorothy Aldis, Rossetti, Yeats, and numerous award winning children's poetry winners, some of whom are pulitzer prize winners.
Some poems present the reader with reality—naked, stark, truthful reality. This book would likely be banned by the current fascist regime, as reality does not comport with their agenda.
Sandburg reminds us that:
"The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by the thousands and how they
pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs,
their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant
of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone."
And John Fandel began having thoughts about Indians—
"Indians once living/Where we are now living."
These are the sorts of facts and views that dipshit fascist dupes like Elon Musk decry as treasonous, insisting that educators asserting such things should be imprisoned; you know, because as a self—proclaimed free-speech absolutist he opposes censorship and big government usurping our rights.
September 22, 2021
I've had this book since the 1970s when I bought it through Scholastic in elementary school. The copyright is 1965. There are some big names here: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, ee cummings, Langston Hughes to name a few.
The poems are arranged by theme (eg: animals, nature, feelings, long ago, city). They are all short, and most are rhyming and lilting, making them very accessible to readers of all ages. Most pages have simple but lovely monochrome illustrations done in shades of green. This is a really nice collection.
The poems are arranged by theme (eg: animals, nature, feelings, long ago, city). They are all short, and most are rhyming and lilting, making them very accessible to readers of all ages. Most pages have simple but lovely monochrome illustrations done in shades of green. This is a really nice collection.
May 26, 2023
One hundred pages of poems for a mere fifty cents in 1965. Check it off on the Scholastic Book order form and see if your mom will give you a couple of quarters. Put the coins in a white envelope with your name on the order and give it to your teacher. In a couple of weeks, this book will arrive, and you'll open it and you can leave your small-town Texas behind and travel with the likes of Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and e.e. cummings.
December 29, 2020
This was my first book of poetry I owned as a child. I always saved up my money and bought a bunch of books from SBS (Scholastic Book Service). This book introduced me to the works of Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rowena Bennett, and many others. I enjoy reading the book still as an adult.
September 21, 2019
many poems in this book. some recognizable, glad that these are all short ones.
January 3, 2023
Loved this collection!
March 25, 2021
This is a collection of poems divided into seven parts. There are poems by e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, as well as many others. My favourite part was the poems on weather. If you like poems about animals you're in luck - this book has a lot of animal poems.
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