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For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed of gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow.

Tom is happy with his new Aunt Bundlejoy Cosysweet who is delighted to be asked to join him in his latest invention, a jam-powered frog. When the frog hops past Captain Najork's window, Tom does not expect to be chased by a pedal powered snake, complete with the Captain and his hired sportsmen, bent on revenge.

These are not your ordinary opposites, they are EXTREME! Extremely funny and extremely clever, combining superlatives and opposites. Knights and dragons, castaways and off-hour Santas, dinosaurs and pirates, mimes and scuba divers populate this imaginative universe. And with just two words per page, you and your little one will have more time to linger over the irresistible illustrations and relish this recital of reverse attractions.

Founded in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in America. Presented in full colour with photographs and artefacts, this is a tribute to the many individuals who collaborated and created in the name of music, and who made this institution a model of its kind.

Includes fifteen "detective puzzles," the unravelling of which requires you to develop your latent powers of observation and deduction. In words, charts, and diagrams, this work puts you at the crime scene and presents you with the facts established by the police.

A candid biography of social writer, Theodore Dreiser, this work covers the period 1892-1899, just before Drieser begain writing his modern American novel, "Sister Carrie".

John Barleycorn must die-so everyone agrees from the ploughmen to the tinker in this exquisitely illustrated edition of the old English ballad. But who will prove to be the strongest man at last?Hand-colored woodcuts by artist Mary Azarian bring the tale of John Barleycorn to a new and glorious life, just like old Sir John himself. There are exquisite details on every page from the ploughing, sowing, harrowing, scything, tying, and grinding-until, finally, the drinking and celebrating.This ballad of how barley becomes beer dates back to the 16th century though the underlying theme of nature's cycle dates back to pagan times. However old the story, the mystery and celebration of the earth's cycles at the core of the tale still resonants strongly today. And as befits the tradition of the ballad, a bathtub beer recipe is included as well.Mary Azarian is a renowned New England illustrator and printmaker. Of her A Farmer's Alphabet, School Library Journal said, "Azarian eschews the merely cute or quaint, creating a loving memorial to a way of life." That be said equally of this, her book for adults, The Tale of John Barleycorn: Or From Barley to Beer.

A title that is suitable for lovers of Victorian literature.

Originally published: New York: Holt, 1950.

Includes meditations, which invite us to explore the many moods and passions of tabbies and calicos, animals whose familiarity belies their everlasting mystery.

Originally published: Z'urich: Nagel & Kimche, 1992.

Presents the text of the poem, "The Song of Hiawatha", and provides an index of the Indian names and their meanings.

The first collection of Page's poems to be published in the US, Cosmologies is a careful ditillation of her critically acclaimed two- volume Hidden Room. Anchored by a masterful use of metaphor, her poems quote knowingly from Eliot, Thomas and Robert Graves.

Works by six of Israel 's most important contemporary authors. Included are Ahron Appelfeld's "In the Isles of St George", in which a fugitive black marketeer is forced to take refuge on a desolate Italian island where his past, his nationality, and his very sense of identity are resolved.

Full of character, nuance, and adventure, this is a novel that is both tender, compassionate, told through the eyes of a precocious, articulate, and unforgettable twelve-year-old boy.

A collection of five detective stories with an all-insect cast. Follow brilliant Inspector Mantis, his faithful sidekick Doctor Hopper, and a bevy of buggy bandits as they tangle in a web of diabolical cases.

Two for the Roadbrings together a pair of thematically related novels, Man and Boy (1951) and In Orbit (1967), each of which concerns a rural American community¿s response to petty tyranny.

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence: Volume 9.The ten-volume Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence is an enormously valuable, often thrilling, record of the friendship between two major poets, their greatest work largely still ahead of them both. Working out their thoughts in letters, Olson credited Creeley with formulating one of the basic principles of a new poetry: the idea that "form is never more than an extension of content." But there was also the larger issue of how a man of language must live in the world.The correspondence covers periods when both men were unsettled-Creeley restlessly moving his young family around isolated Mediterranean villages, Olson drifting indecisively between conflicting roles as mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington, D.C. Throughout, however, there is an intense, single-minded dedication to poetry and the unique difficulties of putting into language the creative rhythms of conscious thought. This collection of uncommon richness will charm, challenge and inspire.

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence: Volume 7.The ten-volume Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence is an enormously valuable, often thrilling, record of the friendship between two major poets, their greatest work largely still ahead of them both. Working out their thoughts in letters, Olson credited Creeley with formulating one of the basic principles of a new poetry: the idea that "form is never more than an extension of content." But there was also the larger issue of how a man of language must live in the world.The correspondence covers periods when both men were unsettled-Creeley restlessly moving his young family around isolated Mediterranean villages, Olson drifting indecisively between conflicting roles as mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington, D.C. Throughout, however, there is an intense, single-minded dedication to poetry and the unique difficulties of putting into language the creative rhythms of conscious thought. This collection of uncommon richness will charm, challenge and inspire.

Reviewing The Collected Greed Parts 1-13 (Black Sparrow, 1984) in the Los Angeles Times, critic Kenneth Funsten heralded Diane Wakoski as "a mature poet, unimpressed by obfuscation or autobiography for their own sakes, but intent upon illuminating substance".That same clarity of vision and illuminating substance pervades this "new and selected" volume, which gathers together the long awaited "Greed: Part 14" along with all Wakoski's poems "written over the years concerning food and drink", as the poet explains in her introduction, "and the beauty that I have discovered through these subjects".Plath imagined blood red tulips in white hospitals as I think of Georgia O'Keefe's poppies. My mother who voted for Nixon and hates foreigners dreams of those red and white cans which might hold Chicken Noodle or Tomato soups. She's never heard of Andy Warhol who mimicked such cans, just as a butcher I talked to in our Michigan supermarket said that he had never eaten shrimp, or knew what people did with oxtails. His apron too had the same bright red stains, not yet faded into rust. Crimson blood on canvas, the art of childhood. Unhealed scars, still capable of bleeding.Contemplating her past -- "the exploration of Diane through her Western beach girl persona, her Medea-life, to her final snaky Medusa self" -- Wakoski honestly confronts her "Greed for Purity", comes to terms with "aging, living in the Midwest", and learns, "partly through the aesthetics of food and drink, to live a kind of 'still-life.'"

Every year without fail, caribou from the Yukon and Alaska set off in early April to a small corner of the Arctic circle to birth to their young. This work presents an account of the arduous journey of the Arctic caribou.

Discover the meaning of life and eliminate fat in one stroke. This book combines common sense, Cartesian philosophy and an understanding that the mysteries of weight loss and the universe are compatible bedfellows.

Essays on rural life that not only address the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet. Perrin, a transplanted New Yorker and now a ¿real¿ Vermonter, candidly admits his early mistakes while giving concrete advice on matters such as what to do with maple syrup (other than put it on your pancakes), how to use a peavey, and how to replace your rototiller with a garden animal.

A collection of four Sherlock Holmes-inspired detective stories for young readers with an all-insect cast of characters. ¿Fantastically entertaining¿.An homage to Sherlock that ably stands on is own twöor six¿feet.¿¿BooklistGoing forth from their little flat at 221B Flea Street, Inspector Mantis, accompanied by his trusted colleague Doctor Hopper, solve antennae-bending mysteries featuring unforgettable bugs such as the relentless spring-cleaner Mrs. Inchworm, the bespectacled Professor Booklouse, the fearless Captain Flatfootfly, and the endearing Miss Allegra Warblefly.Criminal detection, combined with the delightful characters of Bugland, makes this, in the words of The Horn Book, ¿the most engaging and cleverest reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson yet.¿So take a trip to the world of Bugland. Whether as a read-aloud, or read-alone, this is a treat for any young reader who loves a funny mystery. As The New York Times wrote, ¿Children who know Sherlock Holmes will most enjoy Trouble in Bugland. But even those who don¿t are likely to appreciate the book¿s sly mock seriousness and flights of rhetoric and imagination.¿

Two great poets thinking through life and literature in an unequalled correspondence: Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence: Volume 8.The ten-volume Charles Olson & Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence is an enormously valuable, often thrilling, record of the friendship between two major poets, their greatest work largely still ahead of them both. Working out their thoughts in letters, Olson credited Creeley with formulating one of the basic principles of a new poetry: the idea that "form is never more than an extension of content." But there was also the larger issue of how a man of language must live in the world.The correspondence covers periods when both men were unsettled-Creeley restlessly moving his young family around isolated Mediterranean villages, Olson drifting indecisively between conflicting roles as mentor at Black Mountain and writer in Washington, D.C. Throughout, however, there is an intense, single-minded dedication to poetry and the unique difficulties of putting into language the creative rhythms of conscious thought. This collection of uncommon richness will charm, challenge and inspire.

Story-poems of friendship and wonder, loneliness and endurance, sexuality and unrequited longing, familial ties and the overriding relationship of the individual to nature, to landscape and animals, and the living earth.Kate Barnes wrote wise and moving verse as Robert Creeley said, "of a deep and heartfelt clarity." She lived and wrote on a farm in Appleton, Maine and was the state's first Poet Laureate. These are poems that celebrate the ingredients of our humanity in poetry narratives that will stay with you through every season.