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Because I Could Not Stop My Bike
And Other Poems
By Shapiro, Karen & Faulkner, Matt
- ISBN
- 978-1-58089-035-9
- Publisher
- Whispering Coyote
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2003
Gr 3-6 In these delightful transformations of 26 classic poems, Shapiro has taken the rhythms and meters of the originals and made them her own. Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" becomes "Oh, Mommy! My Mommy!," a lament from a kid stuck in the backseat on a long car trip. Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" becomes "Macaroni and Cheese" ("It was many and m...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
