Lives

Title: Lives: Poems about Famous Americans
Author: various (selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins)

Illustrator: Leslie Staub
Type: Poetry
Approximate Interest Level: 3rd-12th
Publisher: Harper Collins

Date of Publication: 1999
ISBN: 978-80060277673

Synopsis: A collection of poems about famous Americans.  Poems include: This Bell Rings for Liberty (Paul Revere), A Song for Sacagawea, Abe (Abraham Lincoln), Walt Whitman, The Whippoorwill Calls (Harriet Tubman), American Wizard (Thomas Edison), Till (Helen Keller/Annie Sullivan), Eleanor Roosevelt, When Babe Ruth His His Last Home Run, Dreamer (Langston Hughes), The Many and the Few (Rosa Parks), JFK, Martin Luther King Day, First Men on the Moon (Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin).

Possible Teaching Points: 1) poetry, 2) famous Americans: Paul Revere, Sacagawea, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Edison, Helen Keller/Annie Sullivan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Langston Hughes, Rosa Parks, John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

Hailstones and Halibut Bones

Title: Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Author: Mary O'Neill

Illustrator: John Wallner
Type: Poetry
Approximate Interest Level: K-12th
Publisher: Delacorte Press

Date of Publication: 1989
ISBN: 978-0385410786

Synopsis: This book contains a series of poems all based on color.  The poems cover blue, pink, yellow, orange, black, white, gray, brown, purple, gold, red, and green. 

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Possible Teaching Points: 1) art, 2) color