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Product Description: Poetry. Memoir. "Norma Farber's journal of the year after the death of her life's companion is in prose and verse. This formal doubleness turns out to be perfect for writing that is attentive as it is candid, cool as it is heartfelt, elegant as it is passionate...read more

By Norma Farber

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9780983391944 | El Leon Literary Arts, May 1, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

How the Hibernators Came to Bethlehem

Waking up the Bear, Raccoon, and Ground Squirrel from hibernation, the star of Bethlehem shouts at them to follow it to a distant manger far away so they can be witness to a most miraculous event, the birth of Jesus Christ.

By Barbara Cooney (illustrator) and Norma Farber

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Hardcover:

9780802796103 | Walker & Co, October 17, 2006, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Many of the winter-sleeping animals, including Bear, Bat, Badger, and others, are awakened on a December night and led by a light to a manger in Bethlehem.

9780802783134 | Walker & Co, September 1, 1994, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Many of the winter-sleeping animals, including Bear, Bat, Badger, and others, are awakened on a December night and led by a light to a manger in Bethlehem

9780802763525 | Walker & Co, September 1, 1980, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Many of the winter-sleeping animals, including Bear, Bat, Badger, and others, are awakened on a December night and led by a light to a manger in Bethlehem

Library:

9780802796110 | Walker & Co, October 17, 2006, cover price $10.85 | About this edition: Many of the winter-sleeping animals, including Bear, Bat, Badger, and others, are awakened on a December night and led by a light to a manger in Bethlehem.

A Birth in the Family: Nativity Poems

Product Description: Poetry. The birth of Jesus floats in the center of this circle of poems, which bring together the strange and beautiful threads of lore that Christianity loosely binds in the oft-told story of the nativity. Animals, shepards, bugs and royalty speak in their distinct voices through Farber's taut cycle of lyrics...read more

By Norma Farber

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9780887395383 | El Leon Literary Arts, April 1, 2003, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

How Does It Feel to Be Old

Product Description: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old

By Norma Farber

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9780887394201 | Reprint edition (Creative Arts Book Co, May 1, 2002), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old

9780140547597, titled "How Does It Feel to Be Old?" | Reprint edition (Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1990), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old

9780807201527, titled "How Does It Feel to Be Old?" | Pap/cas edition (Listening Library, February 1, 1989), cover price $15.98 | About this edition: Old age explains to youth some of the thoughts and feelings, advantages and disadvantages that accompany being old.

9780916870423 | Creative Arts Book Co, October 1, 1981, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Illustrations of the past and present highlight a seventy-year-old woman's response to children's questions about growing old, a response--in verse--that is charged with affection, sensitivity, and courage.

Without Wings, Mother, How Can I Fly?

A mother tries to explain to her son how he, too, is able to fly, climb, and swim just like a bird, monkey and fish. in a charming tale of youthful dreams.

By Norma Farber and Keiko Narahashi (illustrator)

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9780805033809 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A mother's responses reassure her child when he wonders how he can do the many things animals can do without their natural abilities

The Boy Who Longed for a Lift

After running away from home, a young boy soon becomes weary and he calls out for a lift, but only when he returns home does he realize that his father's arms can provide the best lift of all.

By Norma Farber and Brian Selznick (illustrator)

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9780060271091 | Harpercollins, May 1, 1997, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: A boy gets tired of walking and accepts lifts from many sources, but the one from his father as he arrives home is the best

I Swim an Ocean in My Sleep

As one young child sleeps, he dreams of a fantastical world of mermaids, dancing lobsters, and five-fingered fish in this colorful bedtime poem.

By Norma Farber and Elivia Savadier (illustrator)

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9780805033816 | Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A dream takes the reader into the ocean world with its coral castle fairyland, schools of swimmers, dancing lobsters, and other creatures of the deep

When It Snowed That Night

A collection of nativity poems featuring animals who travel from afar to be at the manger of baby Jesus and protect him from the snow

By Norma Farber and Petra Mathers (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780060217075 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A collection of nativity poems featuring animals who travel from afar to be at the manger of baby Jesus and protect him from the snow

Library:

9780060217082 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1993, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: A collection of nativity poems featuring animals who travel from afar to be at the manger of baby Jesus and protect him from the snow

Return of the Shadows

Mimi's shadow gathers together all the other shadows in the world, and they all run free, around the world, until they find that they miss their homes. By the late author of As I Was Crossing Boston Harbor.

By Andrea Baruffi (illustrator) and Norma Farber

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9780060205195 | Harpercollins, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Shadows rebel and run free, finding themselves mismatched--palmtree-shadows with joggers, camel-shadows with icebergs, frog-shadows with skiers--until, longing for their familiar forms, they return home

As I Was Crossing Boston Common

Provides a visual and verbal parade of an unusual assortment of creatures seen by a turtle crossing Boston Common

By Norma Farber

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Hardcover:

9780525259602 | Reissue edition (Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A rhymed account of all the unusual animals seen crossing Boston Common.

Paperback:

9780525447818 | Reprint edition (Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1991), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A rhymed account of all the unusual animals seen crossing Boston Common.

9780807201114 | Pap/cas edition (Listening Library, September 1, 1990), cover price $15.98

9780916870430 | Creative Arts Book Co, March 1, 1982, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Provides a visual and verbal parade of an unusual assortment of creatures seen by a turtle crossing Boston Common

These Small Stones

By Norma Farber and Myra Cohn Livingston

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Hardcover:

9780060240134 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $12.95

Library:

9780060240141 | Harpercollins, October 1, 1987, cover price $13.89

All Those Mothers at the Manger

Animal mothers gathered around a young woman giving birth to her child in a stable let her know that no mother is a stranger to another anywhere

By Norma Farber and Megan Lloyd (illustrator)

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9780060218690 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, December 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Animal mothers gathered around a young woman giving birth to her child in a stable let her know that no mother is a stranger to another anywhere

Shekhina: Forty Poems

By Norma Farber

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Hardcover:

9780961066215 | Capstone Editions, December 1, 1984, cover price $15.95

Paperback:

9780961066222 | Capstone Editions, December 1, 1984, cover price $9.95

How to Ride a Tiger

With the help of the other jungle animals, a little girl uses her rope to rescue a young tiger stuck in a tree

By Norma Farber and Claire Schumacher (illustrator)

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9780395345535 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1983, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The best way to get a ride from a tiger is to win his gratitute by helping him get down when he's stuck in a tall tree.

Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93

With the help of the respected minister Cotton Mather, a young girl attempts to recover from her tragic experience with the Indians which has led her to believe she is bewitched.

By Norma Farber

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9780525440147 | Dutton Childrens Books, November 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Mercy Short is urged by Cotton Mather to write a diary, which tells of her capture by Indians after the massacre of her family and her ransom by public-spirited Bostonians

Never Say Ugh to a Bug

Twenty poems about insects including the slug, maggot, fly, grub, and others.

By Norma Farber

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9780688841409 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1979, cover price $11.88 | About this edition: Poetry and nature study combine in verses presenting special views of both insect pests and nonpests in their relationship with humans

Something Further: Poems

By Norma Farber

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Hardcover:

9780914408109 | Kylix Pr, January 1, 1979, cover price $14.00

Paperback:

9780914408116 | Kylix Pr, January 1, 1979, cover price $8.00

How the Left-Behind Beasts Built Ararat

The animals not chosen for Noah's ark devise a plan to escape from the rising water.

By Norma Farber and Antonio Frasconi

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9780802763143 | Walker & Co, May 1, 1978, cover price $7.45 | About this edition: The animals left behind when Noah sails away in the ark realize they must do something to survive and work together to build a mountain

A Ship in a Storm on the Way to Tarshish

An up-to-date version of Jonah and the whale told in verse.

By Victoria Chess and Norma Farber

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9780688800963 | William Morrow & Co, October 1, 1977, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: An up-to-date version of Jonah and the whale told in verse.

This Is the Ambulance Leaving the Zoo

An ambulance carrying an injured yak to the veterinarian travels an alphabetical route from B to X and back again to the zoo

By Tomie Depaola (illustrator) and Norma Farber

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9780525411253 | Dutton Childrens Books, April 1, 1975, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A cumulative tale introducing city scenes in alphabetical order from ambulance to zoo.

I Found Them in the Yellow Pages

Informs children of interesting and outrageous occupations in this imaginatively-illustrated alphabet book

By Norma Farber

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9780316274203 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1973, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: An alphabet book comprised of occupations found in the yellow pages from dog walkers and hula dancers to pickle packers and zoo keepers.

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