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Pack your book bag--it's time for school! Eminent poets Carl Sandburg, Jane Yolen, and Myra Cohn Livingston join pens with newer writers to celebrate that most delicious of autumn icons: school supplies. A "wide-awake / freshly-painted-yellow / school bus" takes 30 students to school, where they spend their day with ballet-dancing ballpoint pens, tiny-jawed dragons (paper clips), lunch bags f... More

Pack your book bag--it's time for school! Eminent poets Carl Sandburg, Jane Yolen, and Myra Cohn Livingston join pens with newer writers to celebrate that most delicious of autumn icons: school supplies. A "wide-awake / freshly-painted-yellow / school bus" takes 30 students to school, where they spend their day with ballet-dancing ballpoint pens, tiny-jawed dragons (paper clips), lunch bags full of mysteries, and all the colors of the world in a box of crayons. Sixteen beautiful poems by a diverse array of wordsmiths, collected by poet Lee Bennett Hopkins (anthologist of Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry and Sports! Sports! Sports! A Poetry Collection to name two of many) provide an unusual, absolutely delightful new perspective on the ordinary tools of school. Renee Flower's energetic, almost garish watercolor and colored pencil illustrations are captivating, although they seem out of balance with the elegant verses. All in all, though, this is a striking compilation that will appeal to kids, parents, and teachers, especially in the days leading up to the beginning of school. (Ages 5 and older) --Emilie Coulter

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