This modern edition of "Twas the night before Christmas," features four different homes and families, each on Christmas Eve, that reflect the diverse world we live in, lush landscapes and charming scenes capture the wonder and magic of Christmas. What do these four homes share? The excitement and anticipation of the most splendid night of the year. In this tale, the illustrator reminds us that no matter where we live, all children share the same wish...

As energetic and diverse as the American life it describes, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has been loved by generations for its celebration of a brash young nation and one man's exuberant spirit.

A book of twenty-six poetic essays, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as 'the Bard of Washington Street.' Captivating and vivified with feeling, 'The Prophet' has been translated into forty languages...

Twelve new poems and drawings selected from the Silverstein archives.

An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.

Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

For this companion to her New York Times-bestselling collection A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.

The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.

Illustrations of wintry scenes accompany each line of the well-known poem.

A complete collection of Sylvia Plath's poetry.