"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with...

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

The well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

A graphic poem on an all-night party during the Roaring Twenties which ends in a murder. The book was banned in Boston when it was first published in 1928.

"We speak of doctors most often as heroes, martyrs, or victims. Drawing from forty years of experience working in an emergency psychiatric ward, Paolo Milone offers a more complex--and more compelling--picture. With prose at once direct and lyrical, he transports us inside Ward 77, where mental illness coexists with the ordinary lives of those who, at the end of their shifts, take their white coats off and have to remember to buy milk. In this unsettling,...

Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha.

In this version of Clement Moores' classic poem, a brother and sister struggle to stay awake until midnight to ring in the new year.

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.

"This anthology presents array of poems published from the late 1950s to the present, reflecting the many voices of the American experience. Beginning with Robert Penn Warren and Elizabeth Bishop, Story Hour features a variety of poetic style. It chronicles the increased interest in the form during the seventies, the New Narrative movement that began in the eighties, and the growing audience for stories in verse in such venues as cowboy poetry gatherings,...