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The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

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About The Best Loved Poems Of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis

Product Description Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. Once you can express yourself, she wrote, you can tell the world what you want from it. Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mothers favorite poems by such renowned authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The book also includes a poem written by Jacqueline Kennedy and is illustrated with photographs of the Kennedy clan. This is a wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself and a meaningful gift or keepsake for Mothers Day. From Publishers Weekly The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis have been selected by someone who should know: Caroline Kennedy. While Caroline's two confirmed appearances on the Today Show, a first serial in Good Housekeeping, and further publicity should make this easily the bestselling poetry title of the season, it doesn't hurt that Jackie's taste was excellent. Charming poems from John Clare, Kipling, and a young Jimmy Kennedy are complemented by work from Langston Hughes, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop and by 14 b&w family photos. Caroline Kennedy has organized more than 100 poems into seven sections ("America"; "Adventure" etc.), written short, intimate introductions to each and included a small selection of Jackie's own poems. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Booklist Her daughter offers a selection of the late former First Lady's favorite poems, plus a few of her mother's own verses, which, she allows, it would have embarrassed her mother to see in print. Surely she wouldn't have been embarrassed about her daughter's inclusion of three paragraphs from a book for children in which famous people wrote about their favorite childhood reading. The snippet encourages writing as well as reading "the great writers" and names several poets whose work, naturally enough, appears in these pages--Frost, Poe, Dickinson, Cullen, Cummings, Sandburg, Sassoon, and Belloc. Shakespeare, the King James Version, Homer, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, Hughes, and Bishop are among the other sources drawn upon for sections entitled "America," "First Poems," "Adventure," "Escape," "Romance and Love," and "Reflection." If the chestnut count is high, so is the quality, and the few surprises, such as Jean Toomer's "Brown River, Smile," are knockouts. Ray Olson Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review "Great works that parents will enjoy reading to their children." -- People About the Author Caroline Kennedy is the editor of the New York Times bestselling A Patriot's Handbook, Profiles in Courage for Our Time, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Family of Poems, and the coauthor of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Fund for Public Schools in New York City and President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She lives in New York City.