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From Daybreak to Good Night: Poems for Children
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From Daybreak to Good Night: Poems for Children Paperback - 2001

by Carl Sandburg; Lynn Smith-Ary (Illustrator)

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These enduring poems by American master poet Carl Sandburg are perfect for a young audience, and now they have been newly illustrated with bright, colorful double-page artwork. The poems and illustrations work together, following a group of children through a day of enjoying and participating in Sandburg's poetry, observing nature, solving riddles and playing. Young readers will respond to the pastoral themes.

Sandburg lived the last twenty-two years of his life on a farm called Connemara in North Carolina, with his three daughters, Margaret, Janet, and Helga, and his wife, Paula Steichen, who raised champion goats. Sandburg described Connemara as "240 acres and a million acres of sky" and would often take walks in the surrounding woods. The birds, animals, and natural world that surrounded him at the farm resonate throughout these poems.

A prior knowledge and love of poetry are not required to appreciate the wit and insight of Sandburg's work - though a love of poetry may well result!

Poems: Daybreak Fog Bluebird, What Do You Feed On? Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep Spring Try Being a Goat White Wings Bug Spots Sleep Face Good Night Three Riddles: If You Ask Your Mother There Was a Zebra There Are 10 Apples

We have also included two of Sandburg's favorite poems: Bee! I'm expecting you!
by Emily Dickinson The Horse Named Bill,
Lyrics by Red Lewis

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  • Title From Daybreak to Good Night: Poems for Children
  • Author Carl Sandburg; Lynn Smith-Ary (Illustrator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 24
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Annick Press
  • Publication date 2001-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781550376807 / 1550376802
  • Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.38 x 8.26 x 0.09 in (26.37 x 20.98 x 0.23 cm)
  • Age range 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Children's poetry, American, Farm life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005440919
  • Dewey Decimal Code E

About the author

Author and poet Carl Sandburg was born in 1878. He worked many jobs before becoming a writer: delivering milk, laying bricks, threshing wheat, and shining shoes. After marrying in 1908, he moved to Illinois and took up journalism as a reporter for the "Chicago Daily News." "Rootabaga Stories" (1922) was his first book for children. During his career Sandburg won two Pulitzer Prizes: in 1940 for "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" and in 1951 for his "Complete Poems." Sandburg died at his home in North Carolina in 1967.

Lynn Smith-Ary has worked as an artist and animation filmmaker for over thirty years. Her films have won many awards, including a Genie for "Pearl's Diner" and first prizes in Columbus, Ohio, and Bombay for "Sandburg's Arithmetic." This film, based on the poem "Arithmetic" by Carl Sandburg, reflects Lynn's long-standing admiration for this great poet's writing. Lynn resides in Montreal.

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