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These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T. S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems.

When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow died on March 24, 1882, at the age of seventy-five, he was the most celebrated poet in the English-speaking world, Not only was he America's first professional poet, but, after his death, he was the first American to have his bust placed in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey in London, England. Longfellow was an unsurpassed master in his use of musical language. Few poets could match his sonorous and rhythmically...

Era la víspera de Navidad, y en todo el hogar reinaba la paz, no se escuchaba ni un sólo ruidito, ni tan siquiera el de un ratoncito. Junto a la chimenea las medias colgaban, pues a San Nicolás ya pronto esperaban. Abrigados, los niños cada uno en su cama, sueñan con los dulces, que tendrán mañana.

A poetic depiction of the desert as the provider of comfort, food, spirit, and life.

Un chico le dice a su hermanita que los unicornios no existen, pero ella no se lo cree ni por un segundo y se dispone a demostrar que su hermano esta equivocado. La nina va buscando unicornios por todas partes, desde la granja hasta el parque y la playa. Sera que su hermano tiene razon o hay un unicornio escondido a la vuelta de la esquina? Esta divertida historia, con un atractivo elemento de busqueda en cada pagina, esta repleta de diversion para...