Full name: Heroes and She-roes: Poems of Amazing and Everyday Heroes

Author: J. Patrick Lewis Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Children, Picture books Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780803729254 0803729251

Twenty-one entertaining, thought-provoking poems chronicle the good that people have done in service of others. Bypassing those of mere fame, this striking collection is a celebration of such persons as Gandhi, Rosa Parks, teachers, a thirteen-year-old child-labor crusader, firefighters, Cesar Chavez, a feisty nun, and: . . . the valiant and the brave. Those simple people known by Two simple words: They gave. Each portrait includes an expressive illustration and additional factual material, and an eloquent afterword tells of Mr. Lewis's own childhood hero. This memorable book invites readers to explore the legacy of human generosity which lights the path for tomorrow's heroes. Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Edgar Allan Poe's Pie by J. Patrick Lewis A World of Wonders by J. Patrick Lewis Doodle Dandies by J. Patrick Lewis The Frog Princess by J. Patrick Lewis The World's Greatest by J. Patrick Lewis