National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems with Photographs that Float, ZOOM, and Bloom

Former U.S. Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis (National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry) mines the poetry of many of the world's favorite poets and emerging voices, too, in this spectacular collection of 200 nature poems, all illustrated with artful photographs of the natural world.

Readers will be drawn in from very first poem, N. Scott Momaday's "The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee": "I am a feather on the bright sky/ I am the blue horse that runs in the plain...." The nature poems sit in sections such as "In the Sky," "In the Sea," "On the Move" and "In Season." Poems from luminaries such as Emily Dickinson, Wendell Berry, Joyce Sidman, Billy Collins, Karla Kuskin, Douglas Florian, Walt Whitman, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Langston Hughes, e.e. cummings, Jack Prelutsky, Li Po, Vachel Lindsay, Marilyn Singer, Robert Frost, Jane Yolen, Joseph Bruchac, Nikki Grimes, Gary Snyder, Naomi Shihab Nye and Lewis, too, take on a whole new life juxtaposed with brilliant photographs of fiddleheads and frogs, boulders and butterflies, lightning and lakes. Breathtaking. --Karin Snelson, children's editor, Shelf Awareness

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