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Leave your sleep : a collection of classic children's poetry / adapted to music by Natalie Merchant and illustrated by Barbara McClintock.

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Frances Foster Books : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2012.

808.8199282 L439 2012

Poetry -- Collections -- Juvenile literature.

9780374343682 (hbk.)

0374343683 (hbk.)

48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

"Includes special edition full-length Natalie Merchant CD"--Cover.

The land of nod / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The dancing bear / Albert Bigelow Paine -- The janitor's boy / Nathalia Crane -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash -- Bleezer's ice-cream / Jack Prelutsky -- Old mother Hubbard & her dog revisited / John Yeoman -- The blind men and the elephant / John Godfrey Saxe -- Topsyturvey-world / William Brighty Rands -- It makes a change / Mervyn Peake -- The Peppery Man / Arthur Macy -- Calico pie / Edward Lear -- If no one ever marries me / Laurence Alma-Tadema -- Equestrienne / Rachel Field -- The sleepy giant / Charles Edward Carryl -- Nursery rhyme of innocence and experience / Charles Causley -- Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / e.e. cummings -- The king of China's daughter / Anon. -- Vain and careless / Robert Graves -- I saw a ship a-sailing / Anon.

This collection of classic children's poetry, adapted to music by Natalie Merchant, opens the door to a wondrous world filled with witches and fearless girls, blind men and elephants, giants and sailors and dancing bears. Natalie Merchant's brilliant musical renderings, selected from her highly praised album, share the stage with Barbara McClintock's richly imagined art to create a memorable reading, looking, and listening experience.

Children's poetry.

Merchant, Natalie. Leave your sleep.

McClintock, Barbara.

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