John Ciardi

A little boy who's about to turn six years old is thinking about cake and toys and the best birthday gift of all, a puppy. Daddy tells him to look for a Wish-Tree, on the bark of which is engraved TAKECAREOFYOURWISH. The boy falls asleep as he ponders his father's advice, and he dreams of a Wish-Tree, with a trunk as big as a house and so tall that the sky had to bump up to get over the top of it. A remarkable adventure follows, involving the limitless...

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet.

"Humorous poems to read aloud to children alternating with poems beginning readers can read themselves. Grades 1-4." --

Dante Alighieri ; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; with an introduction and notes by Peter Bondanella and Julia Conaway Bondanella ; illustrations by Gustave Doré.

New poems by the poetry editor of "The Saturday Review of literature."

Responsibility and reality are the author's primary interests in this collection of works.

"A collection of twenty-seven humorous poems for children." --