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Oh, a funny place is the Land of Nod, And funny the people there; The dewdrops all sprout like peas in a pod, While blossoms the doughnut fair. The griddle-cake bush runs syrup for sap The plum-trees grow puddings so fat; Yes, the Land of Nod is the best on the map, The finest I ever was at. When Tinkie and Tess refuse to go to sleep on Christmas Eve, they catch the Sand Man on his evening rounds. The three of them fly away together on a moonbeam...
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Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ever wondered about the mysterious place we all visit when we fall asleep? Robert Louis Stevenson's classic children's poem about dreamland is given new life in this wonderfully illustrated book. Accompanied by Robert Hunter's bold and beautiful illustrations, this picture book will bring the beloved Scottish author's work to a whole new generation of young readers.
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English
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They were born to the hive, but an invasion changed them forever.
Their ancestors tried their hand at revolution and failed. Exiled to a world that teems with hostile life, burned by radiation from a small red sun, infighting caused their colony to collapse, leaving them bound in a dark age, surrounded by flora designed to consume everything it can.
Four thousand years later, the former penal colony has been long forgotten. It has struggled...
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English
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"Written during the trial for a close friend's murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious third collection, Traci Brimhall corresponds with the urges of life and death within herself as she lives through a series of impossibilities: the sentencing of her friend's murderers, the birth of her child, the death of her mother, divorce, a trip sailing through the Arctic....
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Series
Musical verse volume 1
Publisher
Zoppa Records
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The beauty of verse and song goes hand in hand in this new edition of a treasured classic. Hear musicians/singer-songwriters Ellen Kjelgaard Godula and Brian Godula skillfully intertwine their music and vocals with the verse of Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edith Nesbit, Oliver Herford, Josephine Daskam Bacon, George Cooper and Walter de la Mare.
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