Background
Valerie Worth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College.
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By the author of the Small Poems books This new collection by Valerie Worth, conceived before her death, is sure to delight readers who know her celebrated Small Poems books, and will serve as a wonderful introduction for those first encountering her enchanting free verse. Accompanied by Natalie Babbitt’s fine pencil drawings, “Peacock” is joined by twenty-six other elegant poems by Worth about things as various as pandas and steam engines and icicles, in which, like her earlier work, she “finds in ordinary things Blake’s universe in a grain of sand” (Booklist).
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Recently orphaned by the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Lily goes to live with a grim aunt at an isolated country vicarage where she becomes increasingly obsessed by the ghostly presence of a mysterious young man.
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In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on the doorstep. Steve Jenkins's bright collage art brings these small moments to life. A Margaret Ferguson Book
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Festive poetry and full-color illustrations celebrate the entire Christmas season, from candy canes to Wise Men, from early December to Twelfth Night. By the award-winning author of All the Small Poems.
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Valerie Worth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College.
In 1947, the family moved to Tampa, Florida for four years, and then spent a year in Bangalore, India. Worth returned to Swarthmore for college, where in 1955 she received an English Degree with High Honors. At an informal writers group, Worth met Natalie Babbit, whose husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt, was the president of the university.
Babbit had published a few books at the time and recommended Worth"s poems to her editor, Michael di Capua at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Small Poems, Worth"s first published collection, came out in 1972 accompanied by pen and ink illustrations by Babbit. Babbit also illustrated her subsequent volumes of "Small Poems", More Small Poems, Still More Small Poems, All the Small Poems, and All the Small Poems and Fourteen More.
At Christmastime, a collection published in 1992, was illustrated by Antonio Frasconi and published by Michael Di Capua Books. In addition to poetry Worth also published two young adult novels, Gypsy Gold and Fox Hill, as well as Curlicues: The Fortunes of Two Pug Dogs, a picture book also illustrated by Babbit.
Two posthumous poetry collections, Peacock and Other Poems and Animal Poems, were illustrated by Steve Jenkins, and Pug and Other Animal Poems, also illustrated by Jenkins, is scheduled to be published in 2013.
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(All four "Small Poems" books in one volume plus fourteen ...)
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