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Breakfast, Books and Dreams: A Day in Verse
A collection of 20 poems focusing on daily activities.
40 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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Michael Patrick Hearn
43 books12 followersMichael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar as well as a man of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration. His works include The Annotated Wizard of Oz (1973/2000), The Annotated Christmas Carol (1977/2003), and The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (2001). He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
He is an expert on L. Frank Baum and is currently writing a biography about him, which sets forth to correct the numerous errors in previous biographies, many based on Frank Joslyn Baum's out of print and largely mythological To Please a Child.
As an Oz and L. Frank Baum scholar, he also edited The Critical Heritage Edition of the Wizard of Oz for Schocken Books (1986), wrote the introduction to the first published version of the screenplay of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). He appears in the documentaries Oz: the American Fairyland and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1983), credited as an "Authority on L. Frank Baum". He gave the keynote address at the Centennial convention of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz mounted by The International Wizard of Oz Club, and often makes public appearances in which he lectures on Baum.
Hearn was a student at Hamilton College in 1968-69 and then transferred to Bard College, where he graduated in 1972. At Hamilton, he was encouraged to become an author by one of his professors, Alex Haley. His first book, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, was completed when he was a student at Bard.
He is an expert on L. Frank Baum and is currently writing a biography about him, which sets forth to correct the numerous errors in previous biographies, many based on Frank Joslyn Baum's out of print and largely mythological To Please a Child.
As an Oz and L. Frank Baum scholar, he also edited The Critical Heritage Edition of the Wizard of Oz for Schocken Books (1986), wrote the introduction to the first published version of the screenplay of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). He appears in the documentaries Oz: the American Fairyland and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1983), credited as an "Authority on L. Frank Baum". He gave the keynote address at the Centennial convention of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz mounted by The International Wizard of Oz Club, and often makes public appearances in which he lectures on Baum.
Hearn was a student at Hamilton College in 1968-69 and then transferred to Bard College, where he graduated in 1972. At Hamilton, he was encouraged to become an author by one of his professors, Alex Haley. His first book, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, was completed when he was a student at Bard.
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September 1, 2012
The full title of this collection of poems is Breakfast, Books, & Dreams. Poets like Mary Ann Hoberman ("Neighbors"), Karla Kuskin ("Going to School"), Shel Silverstein ("Jumping Rope"), and Jane Yolen ("Crazy Quilt") appear within the collection.
This collection follows the course of a day from breakfast to school to the avoidance of homework at the end of the day (a delightful "procrastination" piece from Jane Yolen).
Barbara Garrison's etchings give this 1981 collection a true classic feel. This collection would work well in the classroom library as a collection/anthology of well-known children's poets.
This collection follows the course of a day from breakfast to school to the avoidance of homework at the end of the day (a delightful "procrastination" piece from Jane Yolen).
Barbara Garrison's etchings give this 1981 collection a true classic feel. This collection would work well in the classroom library as a collection/anthology of well-known children's poets.
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