From Daybreak to Good Night Poems for Children

These enduring poems by American master poet Carl Sandburg are perfect for a young audience, and now they have been newly illustrated with bright, colorful double-page artwork. The poems and illustrations work together, following a group of children through a day of enjoying and participating in Sandburg's poetry, observing nature, solving riddles and playing. Young readers will respond to the pastoral themes.

Sandburg lived the last twenty-two years of his life on a farm called Connemara in North Carolina, with his three daughters, Margaret, Janet, and Helga, and his wife, Paula Steichen, who raised champion goats. Sandburg described Connemara as "240 acres and a million acres of sky" and would often take walks in the surrounding woods. The birds, animals, and natural world that surrounded him at the farm resonate throughout these poems.

A prior knowledge and love of poetry are not required to appreciate the wit and insight of Sandburg's work - though a love of poetry may well result!

Poems: • Daybreak • Fog • Bluebird, What Do You Feed On? • Milk-White Moon, Put the Cows to Sleep • Spring • Try Being a Goat • White Wings • Bug Spots • Sleep Face • Good Night • Three Riddles: • If You Ask Your Mother • There Was a Zebra • There Are 10 Apples

We have also included two of Sandburg's favorite poems: • Bee! I'm expecting you!

by Emily Dickinson • The Horse Named Bill,

Lyrics by Red Lewis