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A collection of poems by British poet, Michael Rosen, that combine the silly and the sinister to catch the surrealism of everyday life.
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Children of the world from twenty-six countries, on five continents, create moving poems and drawings about their hopes for world peace and about peace in their own lives. Their poems are illustrated with exciting colorful drawings and pictures. In addition, Artist, Poet and Editor Ada Aharoni, has added some of her own beautiful Peace Paintings. This is a book by children and for children, however, at the same time, it is a book for parents, teachers and educational institutions, as well as for the wide public of all ages. Open-heart children have joined the struggle to teach adults how to stop war and other forms of violence, through their fascinating poems. Contemplate the works of their hearts, minds and hands. Support their efforts to make a safe and harmonious future for all our children in our Global Village. This is a book that will delight all readers and a must for every home on our blue planet.
The best of contemporary Israeli poetry is presented here in exciting new English translations. Poets included in the anthology are Amir Gilboa, Abba Kovner, Haim Gouri, Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis, Natan Zach, David Avidan, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Ory Bernstein, Meir Wieseltier, and Yona Wallach.
In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman's life. Mash's protagonists are often in transit, poised "on the landing" on their way to or from somewhere else. In imaginative, poignant, and relentlessly honest prose, translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy, Mash documents the lost world of Jewish Bessarabia, the texture of daily life behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Moldova, and the challenges of assimilation in Israel. On the Landing opens by inviting us to join a woman making her way through her ruined hometown, recalling the colo...