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Bookspeak! : poems about books /

Presents a series of poems which pay tribute to the limitless worlds available through books, as characters plead for sequels, strut fancy jackets and have a raucous party in the aisles after a bookstore closes for the night.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salas, Laura Purdie (Author)
Other Authors: Bisaillon, Josée (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, [2011]
Subjects:
Books > Juvenile poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
American poetry.
Picture books for children > Juvenile poetry.
Table of Contents:
  • Calling all readers
  • Skywriting
  • If a tree falls
  • A character pleads for his life
  • Top secret
  • On the shelf and under the bed
  • Index
  • Paper sky
  • Cliffhanger
  • The sky is falling
  • Written in snow
  • Book plate
  • Hydrophobiac
  • I've got this covered
  • Picture this
  • Conflicted
  • The middle's lament: a poem for three voices
  • This is the book
  • Lights out at the bookstore
  • Vacation time!
  • The end.