Kicking the Leaves: Poems

Literature & Fiction

DONalD Hall

Poetry

Harper, 1978

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Thus begins a lyrical journey through the days and weeks, the months, and the changing seasons in the life of one New Englander and his family. The oxcart man packs his goods - the wool from his sheep, the shawl his wife made, the mittens his daughter knitted, and the linen they wove. He packs the birch brooms his son carved, and even a bag of goose feathers from the barnyard geese. He travels over hills, through valleys, by streams, past farms and villages. At Portsmouth Market he sells his goods, one by one - even his beloved ox. Then, with his pockets full of coins, he wanders through the market, buying provisions for his family, and returns to his home. And the cycle begins again. "Like a pastoral symphony translated into picture book format, the stunning combination of text and illustrations recreates the mood of 19-century rural New England."—The Horn Book

Ox-Cart Man

Children's Books

Classics

Puffin Books

Enjoying the annual baseball game between the married and single men in his community, twelve-year-old Willard Babson assists talented baseball star Babe Ruth when the latter's car accidentally slides into a ditch.

When Willard Met Babe Ruth

Harcourt, Brace, & Company

HARCOURT, BRACE

It is 1917 in rural New Hampshire when twelve-year-old Willard Babson and his father see a roadster slide into a ditch in front of them. "You know anybody can pull me out of here?" asks the tall young driver--and Willard realizes he's staring at Babe Ruth, the best left-hander in baseball.

Education & Reference

Houghton Mifflin School

In this third edition of the classic series, Hall and Emblem present a collection of essays, stories, and poems chosen for their excellent writing to inspire writers.

A Writer's Reader

Reference

D. L. Emblen

Words, Language & Grammar

Little,Brown

A Writer's reader

Kicking the Leaves

SECKER W

From Anne Bradstreet, who died in 1762, to Richard Wilbur, born in 1921, this anthology aims both to show what has happened in American poetry and to represent what is best in it. Minor figures, such as Freneau, Longfellow and Whittier, are seen at their best rather than their most representative historically. Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Crane and Pound, in whose longer poems much of the greatness of American poetry resides, are included by means of the best of their shorter work. The author's introduction conveys a sense of the quality of American poetry as a whole without falsifying its variety and he produces brief individual introductions to six poets - Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Frost, Pound, Stevens and Roethke - the variousness of whose work is characteristic.

American Poetry: An Introductory Anthology

Faber and Faber Ltd.

1979 Ox-Cart Man (P) by Donald Hall / Pictures by Barbara Cooney ***ISBN-13: 9780590422420 ***Pages: 38

Scholastic. Inc.

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