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I'm Going to Pet a Worm Today

And Other Poems

by Levy, Constance & Himler, Ronald

Thirty-nine poems about everyday things, mostly nature, from leaves on trees to eating peas and petting worms.

The Day It Rained Forever

A Story of the Johnstown Flood

by Gross, Virginia T. & Himler, Ronald

Christina Berwind and her family live in Johnstown. When the rains came, the dam that held Lake Conemaugh burst, unleashing a wall of water 125 feet high and r...

Fly Away Home

by Bunting, Eve & Himler, Ronald

A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal and trying not to be noticed, is given hope when he sees a trapped bir...

A Grass Green Gallop

by Hubbell, Patricia & Himler, Ronald

A collection of poems celebrating the beauty, motion, and sounds of horses, from newborn foals, to thoroughbreds, to old cart horses.

Dancing on the Table

by Murrow, Liza Ketchum & Himler, Ronald

As Jenny doesn't want her grandmother to get married, she makes two wishes on her lucky rabbit charm to ruin Nana's plans.

Winter Holding Spring

by Dragonwagon, Crescent & Himler, Ronald

In discussing her mother's death with her father, eleven-year-old Sarah comes to see that in endings there are new beginnings, that in winter there is the prom...

The bridge

by Neville, Emily Cheney & Himler, Ronald

When the old wooden bridge breaks, a young boy is delighted to be able to watch, from his front yard, the many different machines at work building the new brid...

Nettie's trip South

by Turner, Ann Warren & Himler, Ronald

A ten-year-old northern girl encounters the ugly realities of slavery when she visits Richmond, Virginia, and sees a slave auction.

Happy birthday, Grampie

by Pearson, Susan & Himler, Ronald

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