Download or read book Dog Poems written by Dave Crawley and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of humorous poems about dogs.
Download or read book A Pet for Me written by Lee Bennett Hopkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a devoted mutt giving "sloppy doggy kisses" to a tarantula munching happily on a cricket lunch, this lively collection of twenty poems celebrates the relationship between children and their pets. Popular poet and noted anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together many of today's best children's poets -- including X. J. Kennedy, Alice Schertle, and Karla Kuskin -- in this delightful festival of friendship. Jane Manning's bright and richly textured art cheerfully complements these playful poems.
Download or read book National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry written by Emily Dickinson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color photographs accompany two hundred poems about animals.
Download or read book Dog Poems written by Various and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since prehistory, dogs have served as man's best friend, giving us loyalty, assistance and boundless inspiration. Dogs offer comfort and amusement to their owners; they provide solace when we're sad, entertaining antics when we're bored and affection every day. To poets in particular, these beloved creatures are the most bountiful muses, as they bark, yip, hunt, fetch, growl and slumber, reflecting back at us our most heartfelt tenderness and often rewarding us with unconditional love we scarcely deserve. Dog Poems offers a litter of verses in celebration of our most faithful companions by some of the greatest poets of all time.
Download or read book Cat Poems written by Dave Crawley and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hurry-scurry! / Flutter-flurry! / Running! Racing! / What's he chasing?" With loving exasperation and bewilderment, these playful poems muse about why cats do what they do.
Download or read book Pet Loss Poems written by Wendy Van De Poll and published by Pet Loss Poem. This book was released on 2018-11-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pet Loss Poems: To Heal Your Heart and Soul is a collection of forty-one poems written for those who are suffering pet loss grief and need a soft place to land. They reveal the emotions of normal pet loss grief and the passage that you may be experiencing.
Download or read book Bark in the Park Poems for Dog Lovers written by Avery Corman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on a walk to the park with all different kinds of dogs and their owners in this funny and charming poetry picture book. Enjoy Avery Corman's canine poetry for an Afghan hound, basset hound, beagle, bloodhound, Daschshund, boxer, greyhound, and more as they stroll with their owners to the park.PugIs the Pug cute? Or is the Pug ugh?Mostly, people loveThe little Pug's mugHyewon Yum captures the unique characteristics of the owner and his pet as she beautifully illustrates the humorous walk from each dog's home to the park and back.
Download or read book Pug written by Valerie Worth and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on the doorstep. Steve Jenkins's bright collage art brings these small moments to life. A Margaret Ferguson Book
Download or read book The World According to Dog written by Joyce Sidman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of canine companions in poems, prose, and pictures: “The selections are funny, adoring, exasperated, and most of all grateful” (Booklist). There’s no relationship quite like the ones we have with our dogs—dogs who befriend us; dogs who annoy, perplex, and accept us. This book explores the special bond between teenagers and their dogs—how days of crowded hallways, pointless assignments, and blinding crushes are brought to balance by our dogs. Including insightful poems by Joyce Sidman and essays in which teens speak for themselves, as well as beautiful photographs by Doug Mindell, The World According to Dog reminds us that at the end of the day, waiting at home, there is always Dog—full of hope and companionship.
Download or read book The Book of Dog Poems written by Ana Sampson and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state that the dog is full of love. I've also found, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest. 'The Dog' by Ogden Nash The relationship between us humans and our dogs has inspired many of the world's greatest poets. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, the poems in this beautifully illustrated anthology are a true celebration of the faithful, affectionate, delightful dog. The perfect gift for dog lovers.
Download or read book Weird Pet Poems written by and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems about unusual animal pets by such poets as Karla Kuskin, Theodore Roethke, May Swenson, and others.
Download or read book Darling I Love You written by Daniel Ladinsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming collection of short verse celebrating our beloved pets and the wonder of life Daniel Ladinsky is the internationally acclaimed poet known for his inspired, contemporary renderings of works by Hafiz, Rumi, St. Francis of Assisi, and poet-saints East and West. Patrick McDonnell is the venerated author, artist, and creator of the beloved MUTTS comic strip. In Darling, I Love You! these two artists have collaborated for the first time to create a delightful, universal collection of sweet, welcome-to-the-moment poems about the essential places animals and wonder hold in our lives and in our hearts, accompanied by line drawings of the illustrious MUTTS characters that readers have come to know and love. “Pet owners will chuckle knowingly about the way the speakers shift between simple observations and deeper statements . . . that remind us why humans need animals as much as they need us.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book Love That Dog written by Sharon Creech and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an utterly original and completely beguiling prose novel about a boy who has to write a poem, and then another, and then even more. Soon the little boy is writing about all sorts of things he has not really come to terms with, and astounding things start to happen.
Download or read book Dog Songs written by Mary Oliver and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming' Boston Globe In Dog Songs, Mary Oliver celebrates the special bond between human and dog, as understood through her connection to the dogs who across the years accompanied her on her daily walks, warmed her home and inspired her work. The poems in Dog Songs begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers and become, through her extraordinary vision, meditations on the world and our place in it. Dog Songs includes visits with old friends, like Oliver's most beloved dog Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout, the many dogs of Oliver's life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.
Download or read book Doggerel written by Carmela Ciuraru and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions. The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages–from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin, and Muldoon–celebrating pooches of every pedigree and persuasion. Here is Margaret Cavendish’s barking chorus of beagles on the hunt; Elizabeth Bishop’s “Pink Dog” alongside Robyn Selman’s “My Dog is Named for Elizabeth Bishop”; Charles Baxter’s villanelle “Dog Kibble,” whose dog-narrator decides that “Life isn’t meaningless because there’s food”; and the desultory charms of Jane Kenyon’s unleashed dog, nuzzling about on a drizzly afternoon. From lazy dogs curled up by the fireplace to audacious hounds howling at the moon, from mutts to purebreds, puppies to old dogs, Doggerel is an irresistible gathering of fast and faithful friends.
Download or read book I m Going to Pet a Worm Today written by Constance Levy and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-nine poems about everyday things, mostly nature, from leaves on trees to eating peas and petting worms.
Download or read book Dead Dog Poems Winner of the 2020 New Women s Voices Prize in Poetry written by Lynne Schmidt and published by Finishing Line Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Dog Poems is a collection about pet love and pet loss. It is the small joys each pet parent goes through, from naptime, to walks around the block, to the horrific moment of being at the emergency vet and hearing that your beloved companion may have cancer. This collection brings you front and center for a terminal diagnosis, and the aftermath of such a substantial loss. If you have ever loved a pet, this collection is for you. The poem, Baxter, was awarded the Editor's Choice Award from Frost Meadow Review, and was nominated for a 2019 Best of the Net, while Road Maps was nominated for Best of the Net, and Blood Pleas and Library Books was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association (PNWA) Poetry Contest.
