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Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, History, Fascinating Facts, and More

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In Days to Celebrate Lee Bennett Hopkins has collected an astounding array of information to turn us that on a daily basis of the year gives us a reason to celebrate. For each and every month he has compiled a calendar of birthdays, holidays, historic events, inventions, world records, thrilling firsts, and more.

And for each and every month he has selected surprising poems in honor of one of the people and events commemorated within the calendar. There are poems concerning the seasons and holidays, of course, but there are also poems about a “Flying-Man” (for February 4, Charles Lindbergh’s birthday), birds (for April 26, John James Audubon’s birthday), windshield wipers (patented November 10), and earmuffs (patented December 21).

Beloved poets, such as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Christina Rossetti, are joined by new voices in sixty poems that take us on a remarkable journey through a year — and over time. Stephen Alcorn’s illustrations, in response to the way of art found in old almanacs, are airy, whimsical, and thought provoking. They perfectly match the breadth and depth of this volume.

Brilliantly conceived and elegantly illustrated, Days to Celebrate is a book that can pay tribute to the people, events, and poetry that make up our past and will inspire our future.

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