literary collections

31 short stories, 49 poems, 2 novel excerpts, and 4 plays reaffirm the central place of women in the development of the genres of fiction, poetry, and drama. Some of the writers include Colette, Anne Sexton, Nikki Giovanni, George Eliot, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Marge Piercy, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Emily Dickinson, and many more.

A selection of thirty-four works about the sea by such authors as Homer, Hans Christian Andersen, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Christopher Columbus, Daniel Defoe, and others.

Presents poems, folktales, and original stories about those awesome creatures, the giants.

A collection of stories, poems, puzzles, games, songs, lists, and activities centering around the number seven and intended to celebrate the age of seven-year-olds.

This book is a collection of Christmas poems, stories, and carols written by Clement C. Moore, Christina Rossetti, O. Henry, Charles Dickens, Adelaide Anne Procter, Christopher Smart, Katharine Pyle, and many others.