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Gr 1–6—Incorporating bits from Emily Dickinson's poetry and what is known of her adult life, Yolen imagines an afternoon with four-year-old Emily. Slipping into her father's study, young Emily "discovers a scrap of paper under father's desk, some chance slip." (Adult Emily refers to her odds and ends of used writing paper as "chance slips.") This is a cheerful, deeply thoughtful child. "Perhaps, she thinks, I will make a poem." And so she does. Emily tries to tell her rhyming three-word bit—"frog and bog"—to her inattentive father and then her f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More