A crack in the clouds and other poems / Constance Levy ; illustrations by Robin Bell Corfield

Author: Levy, Constance
Published: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [1998]
Copyright Date: ©1998
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: 40 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Additional Creators: Corfield, Robin Bell, Hopkins, Lee Bennett, and Margaret K. McElderry Books (Firm)

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Summary

A collection of thirty-eight original poems about the natural world.

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ISBN

0689822049
9780689822049

Collection

Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.

Audience

School children

Note

Includes index of first lines.
Rare Books copy: "First edition" stated (1st printing--complete sequential number line 10-1 on t.p. verso); ; in publisher's original boards and dust jacket (metallic bronze foil medallion Hopkins award sticker on front panel); AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Lee [Lee Bennett Hopkins] -- / a poet's best friend / & lovely fellow -- / Best Wishes -- / [signed] Constance Levy / 1998"; LAID IN: publisher's tri-fold promotional brochure for Constance Levy; color pictorial notecard with autograph note signed from Levy to Hopkins (3/9/99) anticipating LBH Award Ceremony, and fondly mentioning she met J. Patrick Lewis at recent NCTE conference in Cincinnati; five clipped printouts of brief emails exchanged by Levy and Hopkins in 2005 and 2008, touching on topics like the unexpected death of Levy's husband of 51 years, her subsequent bout with pertussis, her pride at having won both an LBH award and honor award, and Marian Reiner, Levy's long-time agent, who Hopkins complains always charges "fees higher than I could ever budget in one collection."

Source of Acquisition

Rare Books copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.

Awards

Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Honor Book (Pennsylvania Center for the Book), 1999.

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