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    <body><![CDATA[I have loved the rhythm of this poem since I was a kid. I could read it over and over and over.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Independent Reading: 3nd -6th grade<br/><br/>Longfellow created an epic poem called “Hiawatha”. It is a very long poem for children, so Early recreated it into a shortened version titled, “The Songs of Hiawatha”, that is similar to an anthology. There are excerpts from the poem that are pl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80441617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a love/hate relationship with poetry in general so it is fairly difficult for me to review this book.  The first thing that grabbed my attention was the red rock of Pipestone- very near where I went to college.  Some of the descriptions were very familiar.  I enjoyed the story telling of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41641359">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not really a poetry enthusiast, although I like the World War One poems. This, bored me to tears. I have no idea how anyone could glean any enjoyment from it, but that's personal opinion. I thought I ought to read this because apparently Longfellow's an American ancestor of mine. Why not somebod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63008117">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is weird: a modern retelling of ancient tales that is pretty old itself. It wasn't old in 1855, of course, when Mr. Longfellow published his version of Native American folk-tales. It's the epic poem of Hiawatha, the wise and powerful demigod who guides and protects his people and has many an ad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19767108">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this before reading Paul Revere, and was relieved to discover that I did like Longfellow, I just didn't like this particular poem as much as I did Revere.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a beautifully illustrated version of Longfellows Poem <em>The Song of Hiawatha.</em>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To gain its full flavour, this is a poem to read aloud.  I read it as a child, I read it to my son when I was pregnant with him, I read it to him when I fed him as a baby and for the last time I read it to him when he was old enough to enjoy it.  He didn't. He hated it, so my favourite book was put ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25745285">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My dad used to make up the most kick-ass bedtime stories about Hiawatha and his adventures by the shores of the Gitche Gumee.  I didn't actually read The Song of Hiawatha until after college, and it only gets four stars because it didn't include all the shelter building, and falling out of trees, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5706890">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so this is a random add but it popped in my head. This is a great story for primary school aged children- especially when read perfectly with the whispering sounds (like my mom did, when she read to my class and I as kids). It's a must-own for any American kid.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Beauty, legend, love, heroism. Wouldn't change a word of it. The only thing of which I'm certain in the exasperated canon of child-rearing: read this book aloud to your kids, and they will be better for it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[VERY ROMANTIC BOOK AND INSITEFUL<br/>HIAWATHA FASTING;   read 1 KING 3:9<br/>                         1KING 3: 11-12<br/>                         GEN 32:24<br/>                         DANIEL 9;23   ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Strode the shores of Lake Onondaga and united the five Indian nations.  The O.C. (original chief) of Upstate NY.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For poetry written by a nineteenth century American poet, this is fully average which of course means it sucks.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary &quot;I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions as whole.&quot; What emerged the next year was &quot;The Song of Hiawatha,&quot; a composite of legends, folklore, myth, and characters that presents, in short, lilting lines (who can forget &quot;By the shore of Gitche-Gumme / By the shining Big-Sea Water&quot;?) the life-story of a real Indian, who provides the focus for the narrative thread of this epic drama of high adventure, tragedy and conflict. The aim was not to tell a particular or specific story but to unite the strands of various Indian legends, to present a sympathetic portrait of many Native American tribes, and especially to disclose their profound relationship with the natural world. This when both government policies and an expanding, land-hungry population were just beginning their inexorable campaign of displacement and annihilation.<br/><br/><br/><br/>The poem received a decidedly mixed reception. Our own Boston Traveler revealed its biases: &quot;We cannot help but express our regret that our own pet national poet should not have selected as a theme of his muse something better and higher than the silly legends of the savage aborigines.&quot; Despite this, the poem entered into our canon of great narratives, and was revived again in 1891 when Remington, surely the most renowned artist of the West, provided with new pen and ink drawings.<br/><br/><br/><br/>This handsome new, and freshly reset, edition (the only unabridged version in print) presents the full text, includes the original Remington illustrations, and provides an index of the Indian names and their meanings.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[bookstore find 8/08.  reread for the first time since childhood.  Beautiful illustrations! ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The classic American poem <em>The Song of Hiawatha </em>is   developed into a tale covering the childhood of Hiawatha and telling   the story of his early years, when he first learned the Native American   way of life from his grandmother. Reprint. <em>AB. SLJ. </em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[great book. You can learn a lot about Native American culture with this book.]]></body>
    
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