She's All That!

by Hollyer, Belinda

• ISBN13: 9780753458525
• ISBN10: 0753458527
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-29
• Publisher: Kingfisher

Summary

She's all that and so much more! All kinds of girls - tomboys and divas, workers and dreamers, sisters and soul mates - appear in this collection. Eighty poems from writers such as Maya Angelou, Aileen Fisher, Eloise Greenfield, Jack Prelutsky, and Janet S. Wong tackle the themes that really matter to girls, from family and best friends to boys, body image, having fun, and dreaming about the future. Lively illustrations by Susan Hellard dance across the pages, complementing the diverse poetic moods and styles.

Author Biography

Belinda Hollyer was born in New Zealand and has also lived and worked in Australia and the United States. She has worked as a teacher, a librarian, and a publisher. Now a full-time writer, she has written and compiled a number of books for adults and children, including She's All That! Poems About Girls and the award-winning Kingfisher Book of Family Poems.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(4)
Always Me
What Are Little Girls...
Adrian Henri	12	(2)
They're Calling
Felice Holman	14	(1)
Girls Can Too
Lee Bennett Hopkins	15	(1)
I Am Cherry Alive
Delmore Schwartz	16	(2)
When You Call My Name
Jane Dang	18	(1)
A Girl's Head
Katherine Gallagher	19	(1)
I Am Rose
Gertrude Stein	20	(1)
Today
Jean Little	21	(1)
Hanging Fire
Andre Lorde	22	(2)
My Life
Julie O'Callaghan	24	(2)
Mirror, Mirror
The Mirror
Robert Graves	26	(1)
Who Dat Girl?
Valerie Bloom	27	(1)
Gloria
Joyce Armor	28	(1)
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker
Roald Dahl	29	(1)
Lisa
Beverly McLoughland	30	(2)
My Sari
Debjani Chatterjee	32	(1)
Gran's Diet Advice
Lindsay Macrae	33	(1)
Purple Shoes
Irene Rawnsley	34	(2)
Beauty
Grace Nichols	36	(2)
Full-o Zest
The Betsy Street Booters
Allan Ahlberg	38	(2)
Esmé Her Brother's Bicycle
Russell Hoban	40	(1)
74th Street
Myra Cohn Livingston	41	(1)
The Girl Who Makes the Cymbals Bang
X.J. Kennedy	42	(1)
Basketball
Grace Butcher	43	(1)
Who Is de Girl?
John Agard	44	(1)
Sidewalk Racer
Lillian Morrison	45	(1)
Double Dutch Girls
Douglas Florian	46	(2)
Lizzie
Anonymous (Traditional Polish)	48	(1)
Clara Cleech
Jack Prelutsky	49	(1)
Track
Grace Butcher	50	(2)
Best Friends
Iwo Friends
Nikki Giovanni	52	(1)
Since Hanna Moved Away
Judith Viorst	53	(1)
Best Friends
Mick Gowar	54	(1)
Meanie
Aileen Fisher	55	(1)
Secrets
Judith Viorst	56	(1)
Best Friends
Adrian Henri	57	(1)
Poem for Two Voices
Carol Diggory Shields	58	(2)
Perfect Blend
Andrew Fusek Peters & Polly Peters	60	(2)
Sing Daughter Sing
My Cousin Tiffany
Tony Medina	62	(2)
Girls Can We Educate We Dads?
James Berry	64	(1)
Mother Knows Best
Lindsay Macrae	65	(1)
Conversation
Olive Dove	66	(2)
When Tonya's Friends Come to Spend the Night
Eloise Greenfield	68	(1)
Grandma's Child
Nikki Grimes	69	(1)
Daughter of My People, Sing!
Micere Githae Mugo	70	(2)
Sweets for My Sweet
Sweets for My Sweet
Roger McGough	72	(1)
Blackberry Sweet
Dudley Randall	73	(1)
How to Get a Girlfriend
Lenin Salinas	74	(1)
Boy Girl
Anonymous	75	(1)
Samooreena
Richard Edwards	76	(2)
Miss! Sue Is Kissing
Michael Harrison	78	(1)
A Bargain
Richard Edwards	79	(1)
Bertha's Wish
Judith Viorst	80	(1)
Old Ballad
Christopher Reid	81	(1)
Juke Box Love Song
Langston Hughes	82	(2)
Causing a Stir
Watching a Dancer
James Berry	84	(2)
Sally
Phoebe Hesketh	86	(1)
From a Very Little Sphinx
Edna St. Vincent Millay	87	(1)
Equestrienne
Rachel Field	88	(1)
Full Moon
Vita Sackville-West	89	(1)
Argumentative
Carol Ann Duffy	90	(1)
Queen Nefertiti
Anonymous	91	(1)
Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably
Hilaire Belloc	92	(2)
The Adventures of Isabel
Ogden Nash	94	(2)
I Remember You
Yes, It Was My Grandmother
Luci Tapahonso	96	(2)
Aunt Sue's Stories
Langston Hughes	98	(1)
Girls in a Factory
Denis Glover	99	(1)
Woman Work
Maya Angelou	100	(2)
Witch
Marian Lines	102	(1)
Nobody's Nicer
Aileen Fisher	103	(1)
Migratory Birds
Odilia Galvan Rodriquez	104	(5)
Women
Alice Walker	109	(1)
Girl from a Train
Gareth Owen	110	(2)
Growing Up
I Can
Mari Evans	112	(1)
When I Grow Up
Janet S. Wong	113	(1)
the drum
Nikki Giovanni	114	(1)
Her Dreams
Eloise Greenfield	115	(1)
Design
Julie O'Callaghan	116	(1)
Little Girl, Be Careful What You Say
Carl Sandburg	117	(1)
Light as a Leaf
Helen Dunmore	118	(2)
Index of First Lines	120	(4)
Index of Poets	124	(2)
Acknowledgments	126

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