While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows.

"A lyrical picture book biography about American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's childhood and the two sisters who inspired her Good things come in threes, like peas like wishes like sisters. Vincent-American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay-began writing and publishing poetry as a child. She grew up in coastal Maine with her two sisters and plenty of books, music, and nature, but often without parents-her father left home when they were young, and her...

A brief biography of African American poet Amanda Gorman, discussing her childhood, education, and work as a poet and activist.

When Robert Frost was a child, his family thought he would grow up to be a baseball player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved so much. There was a time, though, when Frost had to struggle to get his poetry published. Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story...

Shares the story of George Moses Horton, who born into slavery taught himself to read and earned money by selling his poems to the students of the University of North Carolina, before becoming the first published African American poet of the South.

"Hab̕a una vez un nįo llamado Neftal̕, quien amaba las cosas salvajes locamente y las cosas tranquilas serenamente. Desde el momento en que aprendi̤ a hablar, se rode̤ de palabras. Neftal̕ descubri̤ la magia oculta entre las p̀ginas de los libros. Cuando ten̕a diecišis ąos, comenz̤ a publicar sus poemas bajo el nombre Pablo Neruda. Pablo escribi̤ poemas sobre las cosas que amaba: obras creadas por sus amigos artistas, objetos hallados...

Juan Francisco Manzano was born in 1797 into the household of wealthy slaveowners in Cuba. He spent his early years at the side of his owner's wife, entertaining her friends. His poetry was his outlet, reflecting the beauty and cruelty of his world. Written in verse.

"Emily Dickinson, who famously wrote "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul," is brought to life in this moving story. In a small New England town lives Emily Dickinson, a girl in love with small things a flower petal, a bird, a ray of light, a word. In those small things, her brilliant imagination can see the wide world and in her words, she takes wing. From celebrated children's author Jennifer Berne comes a lyrical and lovely...

""Miss Lou" is widely credited as having helped Jamaican Patois recognized as a "nation language." Thanks to her writing and her work in TV and radio, Jamaican Patois was embraced internationally and she created spaces for poets like Mutabaruka and Linton Kwesi Johnson and singers like Bob Marley and Harry Belafonte to centralize and popularize Jamaican English, Creole, patois in their work. This picture book manuscript focuses on a young Miss Lou...