Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Merrily Comes Our Harvest in by Lee Bennett Hopkins HOPKINS, Lee Bennett. HOPKINS, Lee Bennett. American, b. 1938. Genres: Novels, Children's fiction, Poetry, Children's non-fiction. Career: Freelance writer and educational consultant. Publications: (with A.F. Shapiro) Creative Activities for the Gifted Child, 1968; Books Are by People, 1969; Let Them Be Themselves, 1969, rev. ed., 1992; Important Dates in Afro-American History, 1969; This Street's for Me!, 1970; (with M. Arenstein) Partners in Learning, 1971; Pass the Poetry, Please!, 1972; Charlie's World: A Book of Poems, 1972; Pick a Peck o' Poems, 1972; Kim's Place and Other Poems, 1974; (with S. Rasch) I Really Want to Feel Good about Myself, 1974; More Books by More People, 1974; Meet Madeleine L'Engle, 1974; (with M. Arenstein) Do You Know What Day Tomorrow Is?: A Teacher's Almanac, 1975, 1990; I Loved Rose Ann, 1976; Mama (novel), 1977; Poetry to Hear, Read, Write and Love, 1978; Wonder Wheels (novel), 1979; The Best of Book Bonanza, 1980; Mama and Her Boys (novel), 1981; Side by Side: Poems to Read Together, 1988; Still as a Star: Nighttime Poems, 1989; People from Mother Goose, 1989; Animals from Mother Goose, 1989; Mother Goose and Her Children, 1999. EDITOR: Don't You Turn Back: Poems by Langston Hughes, 1969; I Think I Saw a Snail, 1969; City Spreads Its Wings, 1970; City Talk, 1970; Me!: A Book of Poems, 1970; (with M. Arenstein) Faces and Places, 1971; Zoo!, 1971; Girls Can Too!, 1972; (with M. Arenstein) Time to Shout, 1973; On Our Way: Poems of Pride and Love, 1974; Hey- How for Halloween, 1974; Poetry on Wheels, 1974; Take Hold!, 1974; Sing Hey for Christmas Day, 1975; (with M. Arenstein) Potato Chips and a Slice of Moon, 1976; (with M. Arenstein) Thread One to a Star, 1976; Good Morning to You, Valentine, 1976; Beat the Drum! Independence Day Has Come, 1977; A-Haunting We Will Go, 1977; Monsters, Ghoulies and Creepy Creatures, 1977; Witching Time, 1977; To Look at Any Thing, 1978; Merrily Comes Our Harvest In, 1978; Kits, Cats, Lions and Tigers, 1978; Go to Bed, 1979; Merely Players, 1979; Easter Buds Are Springing, 1979; My Mane Catches the Wind: Poems about Horses, 1979; Pups, Dogs, Foxes and Wolves, 1979; Elves, Fairies and Gnomes, 1980; Moments: Poems about the Seasons, 1980; By Myself, 1980; Morning, Noon and Nightime, Too!, 1980; And God Bless Me, 1982; Circus! Circus!, 1982; Rainbows Are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg, 1982; The Sky Is Full of Song, 1983; A Song in Stone, 1983; A Dog's Life, 1983; Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder: Poems by Harry Behn, 1984; Surprises, 1984; Creatures, 1985; Munching: Poems about Food and Eating, 1985; Love and Kisses, 1984; Best Friends, 1986; The Sea Is Calling Me, 1986; Dinosaurs, 1987; Click, Rumble, Roar: Poems about Machines, 1987; More Surprises, 1987; Voyages: Poems by Walt Whitman, 1988; Good Books, Good Times, 1990; On the Farm: Poems, 1991; Questions, 1992; Flit, Flutter, Fly!, 1992; It's About Time, 1992; Extra Innings: Baseball Poems, 1993; April, Bubbles, Chocolate, 1993; Weather, 1994; Hand in Hand: An American History through Poetry, 1994; Pauses, 1995; Good Rhymes, Good Times, 1995; Been to Yesterdays, 1995; Blast Off!: Space Poems, 1995; Opening Days: Sports Poems, 1996; School Supplies: A Book of Poems, 1996; Marvelous Math, 1997; Song and Dance, 1997; All God's Children, 1998; Sports, Sports, Sports, 1999; Spectacular Science, 1999; Climb into My Lap, 1999; Dino-roars, 1999; Lives, 1999; Yummy, 2000; My America, 2000; Home to Me: Poems, 2002; Hoofbeats, Claws & Rippled Fins, 2002; Alphathoughts, 2003. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. MLA Chicago APA. "Hopkins, Lee Bennett ." Writers Directory 2005 . Retrieved June 04, 2021 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hopkins-lee-bennett. Citation styles. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). Within the “Cite this article” tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Spotlight on NCTE Poets: Lee Bennett Hopkins, with Sylvia Vardell. “…it is the stuff of all existence.” Welcome to the fifteenth episode of SPOTLIGHT ON NCTE POETS! The videos in this series with Lee Bennett Hopkins are brief and personal looks at all the recipients of the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. This series isn’t about analyzing the poets and their work, but rather about preserving Lee’s personal recollections, insights, and memories of each of these amazing people . Through these short interviews, we hope to foster an appreciation of the poets and their work by “reading it and loving it from the heart,” as Lee says. This installment brings us to a prolific and celebrated educator, poet, author, and anthologist who has dedicated his life to the advocacy of children’s poetry, to the benefit of us all. Lee Bennett Hopkins. Guest Speaker: Sylvia Vardell. Obviously, Lee could not speak about himself, so I called in another important and well known children’s poetry advocate and scholar , Dr. Sylvia Vardell, to do the honors for this episode. Sylvia is a professor of children’s literature at Texas Woman’s University, the author of numerous books for teachers, and one half of the team (with Janet Wong) for the Poetry Friday Anthology series. She blogs on children’s poetry at Poetry for Children. I am indebted to Sylvia for the time she took to research and prepare her excellent comments on Lee and to put up with an interview with me! Thank you, Sylvia! A Personal Note. I do not usually include my personal thoughts on the poets themselves, since that is Lee’s territory, but this is a special case. When I first interviewed Lee in 2013, I had no idea it would be the beginning of such a beautiful friendship. In the intervening years, I’ve come to look upon Lee as my own personal Willy Wonka of children’s poetry , a delightful, eccentric, wacky man who has led me into a world of pure imagination — and encouraged me to become a part of it. We have been working on this NCTE series for over two years, and in that time we have spent countless hours on Skype — most of them going off on tangents about poets and poetry that have enriched my own knowledge more than any master class ever could. By sharing his vast experience, Lee has given me a great gift — and indeed, has given that gift to us all through this series and through his continued, fervent advocacy of poetry and, more importantly, of poets both established and emerging. I struggled with figuring out how to thank Lee for this gift and for his dear friendship. In the end, I realized there are a lot of people out there who would also like to thank him. And so, with the generous contributions of 56 children’s poets, I have put together a special tribute video as our collective small way of saying a BIG thank you! That video appears at the end of the post. On with the show! In 2009, Lee Bennett Hopkins became the fifteenth recipient of the NCTE award. Celebrating with Walter Dean Myers, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Me, Jane Yolen, J. Patrick Lewis, Georgia Heard, Sylvia Vardell, Janet Wong. As Lee himself has often noted, he was not a big reader as a child, but once he became a teacher, he realized how important poetry could be for kids. He was one of the first to bring the poetry of beloved adult poets — particularly Langston Hughes in Don’t You Turn Back (1969) — to a younger audience, thus getting an early start on what would become an incredible career as an anthologist. (Click on graphics to enlarge and read.) Indeed, I knew Lee first as an anthologist, and it was only later that I realized he had written plenty of work on his own, and in many genres. From the poetic ABC’s of Alphathoughts (2003)… …to the sweet observations in Kim’s Place (1974)… …to the joyous adventure of City I Love (2010), which takes us on a trip around the urban world, accompanied by dog and bird… …to the absolute poetic charm of the theatrical Full Moon and Star (2011), where Lee brought his love of theater to children … …to the myriad other collections that show not only Lee’s vast reach into all subjects, but also his ability to speak to children in their own language . Some of Lee’s collections, 1970-2012. And in 1995, WordSong published Lee’s touching autobiographical novel in poems , Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life , which won the Christopher Award and was a Golden Kite Award honor book. And it’s still in print! In my 2013 interview with Lee, he said about Been to Yesterdays : “My teenage years were in turmoil. I had a single-parent mother. It wasn’t easy growing up. But it was a wonderful childhood in many ways. We learned. We were streetwise.” With friend and mentor Charlotte Huck at the launch of BEEN TO YESTERDAYS. Lee did not restrict himself to poetry, however, penning also two autobiographical novels for young people — the popular Mama and Mama & Her Boys — as well as other novels and an autobiography.