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Earth poems 40 pages : colour illustrations Contents: Behold / Mary Kawena Pukui -- Look! / Grace Nichols -- Father and I in the Woods / David McCord -- The shy speechless sound / Osip Mandelstam -- Lark / Jean Kenward -- For Forest / Grace Nichols -- Everything's Wet / Jean Kenward -- Horse of the Sea / Snorri Sturlason -- Winter Ocean / John Updike -- Stray Birds / Rabindranath Tagore -- River Winding / Charlotte Zolotow -- Rain drums on the pane / J. W. Hackett -- Autumn wind / Issa -- Is it a shower of rain? / Priest Saigyo -- Such a moon / Buson -- Look at the cloud-cat lapping / Kalidasa -- Weeping Willow in my Garden / Ian Serraillier -- Winter / Czech -- The Snow / Emily Dickinson -- Night Sky / Zaro Weil -- I Spun a Star / John Foster -- The Song of the Stars / Pasamaquoddy Indian -- Evening Star! / Sappho -- The Corn Growing / Leonard Clark -- Riddle me Day / Traditional Albanian Riddle -- Fire / Moira Andrew -- The Juggler of Day / Emily Dickinson -- Orders / A. M. Klein -- The Sun in Me / Moira Andrew Summary: Poems and illustrations from many cultures come together in this colourful celebration of our beautiful and fragile planet, inspiring readers to look after this earth that is our home