Wind Song Contributor(s): Sandburg, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156970961 ISBN-13: 9780156970969 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1965 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | Readers - Intermediate |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 60010248 |
Series: Voyager Book |
Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.53" W x 8.44" (0.41 lbs) 127 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A selection by one of America's greatest poets of 79 of his poems particularly suitable for children, to which he has added 16 new poems. 7 line drawings by William A. Smith |
Contributor Bio(s): Sandburg, Carl: - CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career. |