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Book

Dark emperor & other poems of the night

Call Number

  • J 811 SIDM (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.

Physical Description

29 p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 28 cm.

Summary

A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark. Also includes information about plants at night and nocturnal animals related to each poem.

Contents

  • Welcome to the night
  • Snail at moonrise
  • Love poem of the primrose moth
  • Dark emperor
  • Oak after dark
  • Night-spider's advice
  • I an a baby porcupette
  • Cricket speaks
  • The mushrooms come
  • Ballad of the wandering eft
  • Bat wraps up
  • Moon's lament.

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