Helps you rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood. This book features classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson, from make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers.

It is Boston in the year 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy . The members fight to keep their sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart.

Celebrating the silver anniversary of a Caldecott Medal-winning picture book with a bold new look!

Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.

Nearly 150 years ago, Chief Seattle, a respected and peaceful leader of one of the Northwest Indian Nations, delivered a message to the government in Washington who wanted to buy his people's land. He believed that all life on earth, and the earth itself, is sacred.