juvenile poetry

Poems tell the story of nineteenth-century teacher Prudence Crandall and the students she taught at her Canterbury, Connecticut, school for African-American girls before persecution forced its closing.

Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha.

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

Presents nineteen poems, each in the voice of a creature that was present in the stable at the time of Christ's birth.

Narrative paintings and rhyming text tell the story of Harriet Tubman, a woman who escaped slavery then risked her freedom to lead others along the Underground Railroad.

The weird creatures which inhabit a medieval painter's home drive his housekeeper away, until a change of heart sends her back to the beasts and to Bosch in a new and loving relationship.

A collection of nativity poems featuring animals who travel from afar to be at the manger of baby Jesus and protect him from the snow.

Narrates the reasons for Paul Revere's ride and the subsequent confrontations between the British and the Minutemen which in effect began the Revolutionary War.

Relates in verse the battle between John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard and the British ships Serapis and Scarborough.

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.