What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings by Joyce Sidman

What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings by Joyce Sidman

What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings is a collection of poems to provide comfort, courage, and humor at difficult or daunting moments in life. It conjures forth laments, spells, invocations, chants, blessings, promises, songs, and charms. Here are pleas on how to repair a friendship, wishes to transform one's life or to slow down time, charms to face the shame of a disapproving crowd, invocations to ask for forgiveness, to understand the mysteries of happiness, and to bravely face a dark and different world. These words help us remember or grieve; they bolster courage and guard against evil; they help us celebrate and give thanks. This elegant gift book also includes a red ribbon for readers to mark their favorite poems.Poet extraordinaire Joyce Sidman won the Newbery Honor Medal for Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night and continues to write poetry for children that has been called "fresh," "inspiring," and "accessible" to her young audience. She is intrigued by the idea of "words of power"--chants and charms that were once believed to have real influence in everyday life. Caldecott Honor-winning Pamela Zagarenski's beautiful art captures a world of emotion and the essence of Sidman's words.

Joyce Sidman, a Newbery Honor and Sibert Medalist, is today's best children's nature poet. Two Caldecott Honors, a Lee Bennet Hopkins Award, a Claudia Lews Award winner, and numerous stars and best of lists have all been bestowed upon her works. She received the Prize for Excellence in Poetry for Children for her award-winning body of work. She is a resident of Wayzata, Minnesota. Visit www.joycesidman.com for more information.

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ISBN 13	9780544106161
ISBN 10	0544106164
Title	What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings
Author	Joyce Sidman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2013-10-08
Number of pages	80
Prizes	Winner of Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Poetry) 2014, Winner of Children's Book Committee Award (Poetry) 2014, Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Young Adult Literature) 2013, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Ten to Fourteen) 2014, Commended for Cybils (Poetry) 2013
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