Poems from a Green and Blue Planet

Poems from a Green and Blue Planet
Author: Sabrina Mahfouz
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1444951254

A GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, this stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrates the diversity of life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with all the family. With new poems from Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Kate Tempest, Hollie McNish, Dean Atta, Sabrina Mahfouz and more. Dive into this book and be swept away on a journey around our green and blue planet, from the peak of the snowiest mountaintop to the bottom of the deepest, bluest ocean. Meet the birds circling its skies, the beasts prowling its plains, and the people toiling in its fields and forests and cities... Explore all the worlds that make up our world, and hear the voices, past and present, that sing out from it. From haikus to sonnets, from rap to the Romantics, this joyous collection celebrates life in all corners of our beautiful planet.

Green Poems for a Blue Planet

Green Poems for a Blue Planet
Author: Martin Kiszko
Publisher: Sansom
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Children's poetry, English
ISBN: 9781906593551

Tiger Tiger burning bright, Gone from forests of the night. Who will listen to your plight Tiger Tiger out of sight? Witty, whimsical, thought-provoking and meant seriously despite their light-hearted tone, here are 50 poems highlighting the threat humankind poses to the future of the planet.

Earth Lines

Earth Lines
Author: Pat Moon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1991
Genre: Children's poetry, English
ISBN: 9780688118532

The author's poems celebrate Earth and reflect a concern for its survival in an age of pollution.

Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book

Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Book
Author: Ana Sampson
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1760989576

Wonder: The Natural History Museum Poetry Anthology is a beautiful gift hardback collection of poetry with poems inspired by The Natural History Museum. It covers everything from the depths of space to the very centre of the earth - there are poems about the solar system, planet earth, oceans and rivers, birds, dinosaurs, fossils, wildlife, flowers, fungi, insects, explorers and palaeontologists. Each section includes an introduction an some footnotes about particularly interesting species. The museum has a collection of over eighty million objects and behind the scenes of its twenty-eight galleries crowd kilometres of preserved specimens, libraries of rare books and artworks, wonders gathered on some of the most famous voyages in history, rooms packed with pressed plants, warehouses teeming with stuffed animals and freezers full of DNA. As well as a museum, it is a state-of-the-art centre for discovery with over three hundred resident scientists and over ten thousand visiting researchers each year, investigating everything from dinosaurs to life on other planets. The collection is made up of brand new and classic poems and is illustrated with botanical drawings and engravings from the museum’s collections. This fantastic collection speaks of the wonder of nature and shows us why we need to look after our incredible planet.

Our Big Home

Our Big Home
Author: Linda Glaser
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761384456

Young children usually think of their home as the structure in which they live. In Our Big Home, the author and illustrator present a much larger vision of home as the planet Earth. Linda Glaser's beautiful poem is a wonderful way to gently lead children toward the all-important understanding of caring for our environment. In her lyrical, child-oriented style, she presents the idea that our big home is shared not only with all people but with all plants and animals as well. She shows that we share the air, the water, the soil, and other elements that affect and sustain all of us who live on Earth. Elisa Kleven's vibrant art enhances the concept as she takes young readers to an African plain, a Caribbean island, a South American mountain, and around the world to see people and animals reveling in the beauty and abundance of our shared home.

Hello, Earth!

Hello, Earth!
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Eerdmans Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780802855282

"Poems addressed to the earth itself explore scientific concepts including plate tectonics, water cycles, and the creation of tides"--

Space Struck

Space Struck
Author: Paige Lewis
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1946448451

This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. The speaker writes, “...the universe/is an arrow/without end/and it asks only one question;/How dare you?” Zig-zagging through the realms of nature, science, and religion, one finds St. Francis sighing in the corner of a studio apartment, tides that are caused by millions of oysters “gasping in unison,” an ark filled with women in its stables, and prayers that reach God fastest by balloon. There’s pathos: “When my new lover tells me I’m correct to love him, I/realize the sound isn’t metal at all. It’s not the coins rattling/ on concrete, but the fingers scraping to pick them up.” And humor, too: “...even the sun’s been sighing Not you again/when it sees me.” After reading this far-reaching, inventive collection, we too are startled, space struck, our pockets gloriously “filled with space dust.”

The Barefoot Book of Earth Poems

The Barefoot Book of Earth Poems
Author: Judith Nicholls
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: Children's poetry
ISBN: 9781782852780

"[An] enchanting anthology of nature poems. From the rain forests of Africa to the mountains of Japan, Judith Nicholls has brought toigether poems from many cultures, all of them celebrating out lovely Earth ... Includes poems by: Moira Andrews, Buson, Leonard Clark, Emily Dickinson, John Foster, J.W. Haackett, Issa, Kalidasa, Jean Kenward, A.M. Klein, Osip Mandelstam, David McCord, Grace Nichols, Mary Kawena Pukui, Priest Saigyo, Sappho, Ian Serraillier, Snorri Sturlason, Rabindranath Tagore, John Updike, Zaro Weil, Charlotte Zolotow"--Publisher's description

Green

Green
Author: Niyi Osundare
Publisher: Black Widow Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2022-02-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781737160335

Niyi Osundare's latest book of poems, Green: Sighs Of Our Ailing Planet, is a critical pastoral of poems concerning the environment around the world--A poet of renown who has travelled and given performances in many parts of the world, he has felt and tried to put into words what he has felt in what he has seen-from the Amazon to the deserts of North Africa to his home country of Nigeria. For him it was the nature speaking to him and through him, pleading and imploring...but still beautiful? Lushness of destruction, transmuted from a nature endangered....an accessible plea from nature through Osundare's words. A book relevant and hopeful for people to stop and reflect on the endangered beauty of all of nature. In the words of Niyi Osundare: Of all my 20-something books of poetry, none has confronted me with a more challenging combination of urgency of content and complexity of execution than this new one. I daresay the existential imperative of its content has been responsible for the pain that came with its composition and the uneasy relief I now feel upon its completion. There is something deeply spiritual, almost religious, about the mission and the message of the poems, and the many ways they have turned out to be denizens of that vital interface between the ecological and the cosmic...

All the Wild Wonders

All the Wild Wonders
Author: Wendy Cooling
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781847809940

In this celebration of our Earth, distinguished anthologist Wendy Cooling has chosen poems to make children look, think, and ask questions. Why are trees so important? How are motorways damaging our countryside? What can we do about rubbish? What can we do to protect our Earth for the future? Strong, colourful illustrations combine to make this a gift book with a difference.