Name: Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman
Price: 693.00 TWD
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Author: Kate Evans
ISBN: 9781633221505

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Language

English

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Hardcover

Dimensions

23.1 x 20.8 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781633221505

Synopsis "Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman"

A 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English) Introduce your children to the beautiful words of classic American poet, Walt Whitman. Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman makes the work engaging and easy to understand. Walt Whitman is considered by many to be one of the most prolific poets in American history. What better time to introduce your children to the written word than now? This collection of thirty-five of Walt's best works has been carefully curated for kids. Each piece of work is lovingly illustrated, and are both presented and explained by New York University professor Karen Karbenier, PhD, a primary authority Whitman's poetry. Walt Whitman includes enlightening commentary for each poem, definitions of key words, and a foreword by the expert so that kids, or even parents new to poems, will understand.Starting off with "I Hear America Singing," the collection includes excerpts from "Song of Myself," "O Captain! My Captain!", poems from Leaves of Grass, and many more thought-provoking, descriptive, and kid-friendly selections.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is, undoubtedly, the most influential poet in American literature. He was born in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children in a family close to the Quaker creed. At the age of eleven, he finished his formal education and began working as an apprentice at the weekly The Patriot, where he would start writing his first texts. After working for other newspapers and magazines, in 1850 he decided to fully dedicate himself to poetry. Five years later, the first edition of the famous Leaves of Grass was published, consisting of twelve poems and whose 795 copies were funded by the author himself. The poetry collection aroused great interest and was widely distributed, partly due to the fascination it sparked in philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. During the Civil War, Whitman voluntarily served as a nurse in Washington D.C., an experience he would capture in The Great Army of the Sick (1863) and Memories of the War (1875). After the conflict ended in 1965, he published Drum-Taps. While employed at the Attorney General's Office, Whitman continued to raise the pen to write verses like those of "O Captain! My Captain!", which, along with others, would complete the successive editions of Leaves of Grass up to the ninth and definitive, which consisted of a total of more than four hundred poems.

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Kate Evans

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Kate Evans es una escritora, periodista y editora neozelandesa conocida por su trabajo en crónica cultural, alimentación y memoria familiar. A lo largo de su trayectoria ha colaborado con diversos medios y proyectos editoriales en Nueva Zelanda, desarrollando una escritura que mezcla investigación, autobiografía y observación social. Sus textos suelen explorar temas vinculados a identidad, migración, pertenencia y relaciones humanas a través de objetos cotidianos o elementos de la naturaleza. Evans destaca por transformar asuntos aparentemente pequeños en relatos emocionales y universales, demostrando que a veces una fruta puede contener más historia familiar que varios álbumes genealógicos completos.

Su libro más reconocido es Feijoa: A Story of Obsession and Belonging, obra híbrida entre memorias, ensayo cultural y exploración gastronómica centrada en la feijoa, una fruta profundamente asociada a Nueva Zelanda. A través de este tema singular, Evans reflexiona sobre raíces familiares, identidad nacional, migración y nostalgia, construyendo una narrativa íntima y original. El libro fue valorado por su capacidad para combinar humor, sensibilidad y análisis cultural en torno a un símbolo cotidiano convertido casi en personaje literario. Porque sí, lograr que una feijoa protagonice una reflexión existencial seria tiene bastante mérito narrativo.

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