
Discover the poetry of Carl Sandburg in this installment of the Poetry for Kids series. Professor and scholar Kathryn Benzel has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families, including "Young Bullfrogs," "Shenandoah," "Jazz Fantasia," "The Road and the End," "Fog," and 30 more of Sandburg's favorite and most accessible works. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Robert Crawford. This gentle introduction includes commentary, definitions of key words, and an introduction to the poet's life.
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Free verse poems of known American writer Carl August Sandburg celebrated American people, geography, and industry; alongside his six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln (1926-1939), his collections of poetry include Smoke and Steel (1920). This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl\_San...