And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone - Softcover

Schwartz, Alvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0064462145 ISBN 13: 9780064462143

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1999

Synopsis

Do your ears hang low, Do they wobble to and fro? If they do, you may be a folk poet! From autograph rhymes to street rhymes, from riddles to nonsense rhymes, folk poetry celebrates the vitality and originality of everyday language. Birdie, birdie, in the Sky, Why'd you do that in my eye? Compiled by renowned folklorist Alvin Schwartz and illustrated with antic humor by Sue Truesdell, here is a treasure trove of more than 250 folk poems to share with friends and family. It may even inspire you to create your own! Understand, rubberband? Notable Children's Books of 1993 (ALA)1993 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)1992 Books for Youth Editors' Choices (BL)Children's Choices for 1993 (IRA/CBC)Children's Books of 1992 (Library of Congress)100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1992 (NY Public Library)Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1992 (BCCB)1993 Notable Trade Books in the Language Arts (NCTE)1993-4 Alabama Emphasis on Reading Award

About this title

About the Author:

Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories -- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read Books, In A Dark, Dark Room and Ghosts! -- are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

As sure as a vine grows round a stump,
You are my darling sugar lump.

As sure as a vine grows round a rafter,
you are the one that I am after.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0064462145
• ISBN 13: 9780064462143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195
• Illustrator: Truesdell Sue