Aeneas, a Trojan warrior, searches for a new homeland after the fall of Troy. His journey becomes years of wandering. His tales of wars fought, cities built and burned, new kings, and struggling...
800 school-age kids helped Bruce Lansky select a second volume of favorite funny poems. Just like those kids, you'll be chuckling, chortling, giggling, and guffawing when you read poems by Shel...
Beowulf , written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. A rich fabric of fact and fancy, Beowulf is the...
Three-time Grammy Award®-winning author Maya Angelou lends her distinctive voice to this special audiobook. Listen as Maya Angelou reads her highly publicized work, “Amazing Peace”, a poem she read...
This is a poem about the courtship of Miles Standish and Priscilla Mullins and then the Marriage of Priscilla Mullins to John Alden. It’s a very pleasant poem.
Please Note: This book is easy to...
Heralded by Ralph Waldo Emerson as “the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed,” Leaves of Grass forever changed the landscape of American poetry. Originally...
When a piper lures away a town's rats, he expects to be paid fully for his work, but the skinflint mayor won't honor their agreement. And so he lures away all the town's children, never to be seen...
A Message from the Grandmother Spirit after the Attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
Alice Walker
Alice Walker writes:
"Where do we start? How do we reclaim a proper relationship to the world?
It is said that in the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly,...
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among the most well-known and beloved poems of the English language. Passionate and provocative, they touch on the Truths of Love, Beauty, and Nature. You may already...
