poetry

A series of poems in the imagined voice of York, William Clark's slave, during and after the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Presents an illustrated edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's long poem about Paul Revere's famous ride at the start of the American Revolution.

Warrior Hiawatha fights the evil magician Megissogwon at the bidding of his wise old grandmother, Nokomis, in this illustrated presentation of a section from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," based on the tales of the Anishinabe Nation.

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.

Contains a collection of poems by the author that imagines what Harriet Tubman went through and attempts to convey the danger and hope of the underground slave revolt.

Presents John Milton's epic poem about the fall of man and Satan's plot for revenge against God for casting him out of Heaven; and includes twelve illustrations from the first illustrated edition, published in 1688, and an introduction by novelist Philip Pullman.

A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.

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.