Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night

Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2010-09-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547529228

Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze, come smell your way among the trees, come touch rough bark and leathered leaves: Welcome to the night. Welcome to the night, where mice stir and furry moths flutter. Where snails spiral into shells as orb spiders circle in silk. Where the roots of oak trees recover and repair from their time in the light. Where the porcupette eats delicacies—raspberry leaves!—and coos and sings. Come out to the cool, night wood, and buzz and hoot and howl—but do beware of the great horned owl—for it’s wild and it’s windy way out in the woods!

Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold

Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547906501

Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold summons forth the charms and dictates of winter. Just as Joyce Sidman captured the drama of the pond in Song of the Water Boatman and the night woods in Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, here she captures the drama of the cold. Why don't snakes freeze to death? How does the tiny honeybee survive frost? Learn about the secret lives of animals happening under the snow and how it buds to spring!

Song of the Water Boatman

Song of the Water Boatman
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0618135472

A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.

Swirl by Swirl

Swirl by Swirl
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 054731583X

Celebrates the shape of a spiral in nature, from rushing rivers to flower buds and even the shape of an ear. Additional factual information about spirals and the plants and animals pictured, follows the text.

Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 43
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547488041

From the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems comes a celebration of ubiquitous life forms among us. Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman presents another unusual blend of fine poetry and fascinating science illustrated in exquisite hand-colored linocuts by Caldecott Honor artist Beckie Prange. Ubiquitous (yoo-bik-wi-tuhs): Something that is (or seems to be) everywhere at the same time. Why is the beetle, born 265 million years ago, still with us today? (Because its wings mutated and hardened). How did the gecko survive 160 million years? (By becoming nocturnal and developing sticky toe pads.) How did the shark and the crow and the tiny ant survive millions and millions of years? When 99 percent of all life forms on earth have become extinct, why do some survive? And survive not just in one place, but in many places: in deserts, in ice, in lakes and puddles, inside houses and forest and farmland? Just how do they become ubiquitous?

Red Sings from Treetops

Red Sings from Treetops
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2009-04-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547562136

Includes a reader's guide and an author's note.

This Is Just to Say

This Is Just to Say
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9780606339889

For use in schools and libraries only. Poems that say "I'm sorry" reveal the power of words to a sixth-grade class.

What the Heart Knows

What the Heart Knows
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0544343549

What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings is a collection of poems to provide comfort, courage, and humor at difficult or daunting moments in life. It conjures forth laments, spells, invocations, chants, blessings, promises, songs, and charms. Here are pleas on how to repair a friendship, wishes to transform one’s life or to slow down time, charms to face the shame of a disapproving crowd, invocations to ask for forgiveness, to understand the mysteries of happiness, and to bravely face a dark and different world. These words help us remember or grieve; they bolster courage and guard against evil; they help us celebrate and give thanks. This elegant gift book also includes a red ribbon for readers to mark their favorite poems. Poet extraordinaire Joyce Sidman won the Newbery Honor Medal for Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night and continues to write poetry for children that has been called "fresh," "inspiring," and "accessible" to her young audience. She is intrigued by the idea of "words of power"—chants and charms that were once believed to have real influence in everyday life. Caldecott Honor-winning Pamela Zagarenski's beautiful art captures a world of emotion and the essence of Sidman's words.

Before Morning

Before Morning
Author: Joyce Sidman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1328686094

There are planes to fly and buses to catch, but a child uses the power of words, in the form of an invocation, to persuade fate to bring her family a snow day — a day slow and unhurried enough to spend at home together. In a spare text that reads as pure song and illustrations of astonishingly beautiful scratchboard art, Sidman and Krommes remind us that sometimes, if spoken from the heart, wishes really can come true.