New Releases by John Ciardi

On his sixth birthday, a boy learns that his wish for a puppy comes with responsibility.

Defines unusual and interesting idiomatic words and phrases.

A witty collection of more than 550 limericks from two world-famous writers, and all of them just ''naughty'' enough to make this ''literary form'' hilarious fun!

Presents a collection of 450 poems that originally appeared in twenty individual volumes published between 1940 and 1993

An illustrated edition of the Ciardi poem about the pelican and his splendid beak. On board pages.

A collection of limericks about such characters as the Elephant Boy, the fast fiddler from Middletown, and the silly old skinflint named Quince.

Essays reveal the author''s thoughts on the painstaking craftmanship involved in the art of writing poetry

Poems deal with intimacy, memories, dreams, spring, mortality, jealousy, and shared lives

Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

‘Thirty-five imaginative and humorous poems for an adult and a child to read aloud together. . . . The entertaining verses are varied as to length, rhythm, and subject and are illustrated with harmoniously amusing drawings.’ —BL.

Examines the usage and origins of American language expressions.

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet.

Poems deal with happiness, fragility, crime, education, parenthood, friendship, mortality, dreams, knowledge, and nature

Poems deal with a wide range of subjects including love, death, marriage, war, and nature

Tells the stories, legends, and facts behind the origins of common American expressions.

The Renaissance man and the poet/ critic engage in a lighthearted literary duel utilizing the rigid verse tradition of the limerick and providing a humorous look at sex and the human condition