Book
Firefly July : a year of very short poems
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
Physical Description
47 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Audience
Ages 6-9.
Summary
A selection of short American poems dealing with the four seasons and the different weather events and animal patterns that can occur within each.
Contents
- Daybreak reminds us / Spring / The red wheelbarrow / The island / In passing / Water lily / Open-billed / Window / Little orange cat / Subway rush hour / A happy meeting / Firefly July / Sandpipers / Bronze Age / In the field forever / Sea trade / The moon was but a chin of gold / What is it the wind has lost / Screen door / Headline / In the alley / Tall city / The first September breeze fluttered / November night / Between walls / Moonlight / Old truck / Fog / Uses for fog / Dust of snow / Snow fence / The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase / A wild winter wind / Winter twilight / Night / A welcome mat of moonlight