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Author Swenson, May

Title The centaur / May Swenson ; illustrated by Sherry Meidell
Published Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource ([33] pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Summary "First published in 1955, May Swenson's "The Centaur" remains one of her most popular and most anthologized poems. This is its first appearance as a picture book for children. In images bright and brisk and nearly tangible, the poet re-creates the joy of riding a stick horse through a small-town summer. We find ourselves, with her, straddling "a long limber horse with ... a few leaves for a tail," and pounding through the lovely dust along the path by the old canal. As her shape shifts from child to horse and back, we know exactly what she feels. Sherry Meidell's water-color illustrations perfectly convey the wit and wisdom of May Swenson's poem. These are playful, satisfying images full of vitality and imagination. Meidell handles the joy of poem's fantasy and the joy of its occasional naughtiness with equal success."--Publisher's description
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Horses -- Poetry
Imagination -- Poetry
Imaginary companions -- Poetry
Horses -- Poems
Imagination -- Poems
Imaginary playmates -- Poems
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- General.
Horses
Imaginary companions
Imagination
Genre/Form poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
Author Meidell, Sherry
LC no. 2007011335
ISBN 9780874216721
0874216729
1283250128
9781283250122
9786613250124
6613250120