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1918. Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His Pulitzer Prize-winning poem John Brown's Body is still considered the quintessential American war poem. Young Adventure is one of the memorable works of his early years. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1918. Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His Pulitzer Prize-winning poem John Brown's Body is still considered the quintessential American war poem. Young Adventure is one of the memorable works of his early years. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1918. Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His Pulitzer Prize-winning poem John Brown's Body is still considered the quintessential American war poem. Young Adventure is one of the memorable works of his early years. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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YOUNG ADVENTURE
A Book of Poems by

by Stephen Vincent Benet


And so, to you, who always were
Perseus, D'Artagnan, Lancelot
To me, I give these weedy rhymes
In memory of earlier times.
Now all those careless days are not.
Of all my heroes, you endure.

Words are such silly things! too rough,
Too smooth, they boil up or congeal,
And neither of us likes emotion —
But I can't measure my devotion!
And you know how I really feel —
And we're together.There, enough,...!


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Describes the techniques used in producing motion pictures and television shows, the various people involved, and some historical background on these two media. ... Read more

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It is one of Johnny Chipman's parties at the Harlequin Club, and as usual the people the other people have been asked to meet are late and as usual Johnny is looking hesitatingly around at those already collected with the nervous kindliness of an absent-minded menagerie-trainer who is trying to make a happy family out of a wombat, a porcupine, and two small Scotch terriers because they are all very nice and he likes them all and he can't quite remember at the moment just where he got hold of any of them. This evening he has been making an omelet of youngest. K. Ricky French, the youngest Harvard playwright to learn the tricks of C43, a Boston exquisite, impeccably correct from his club tie to the small gold animal on his watch-chain, is almost coming to blows with Slade Wilson, the youngest San Francisco cartoonist to be tempted East by a big paper and still so new to New York that no matter where he tries to take the subway, he always finds himself buried under Times Square, over a question as to whether La Perouse or Foyot's has the best _hors-d'oeuvres_ in Paris.

The conflict is taking place across Johnny's knees, both of which are being used for emphasis by the disputants till he is nearly mashed like a sandwich-filling between two argumentative slices of bread, but he is quite content. Peter Piper, the youngest rare-book collector in the country, who, if left to himself, would have gravitated naturally toward French and a devastating conversation in monosyllables on the pretty failings of prominent débutantes, is gradually warming Clark Stovall, the youngest star of the Provincetown Players out of a prickly silence, employed in supercilious blinks at all the large pictures of celebrated Harlequins by discreet, intelligent questions as to the probable future of Eugene O'Neill.

Stovall has just about decided to throw Greenwich Village omniscience overboard and admit privately to himself that people like Peter can be both human and interesting even if they do live in the East Sixties instead of Macdougal Alley when a page comes in discreetly for Johnny Chipman. Johnny rises like an agitated blond robin who has just spied the very two worms he was keeping room for to top off breakfast. "Well" he says to the world at large. "They're only fifteen minutes late apiece this time."

He darts out into the hall and reappears in a moment, a worm on either side. Both worms will fit in easily with the youthful assortment already gathered--neither can be more than twenty-five. ... Read more

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Alice got two teddy bears as gifts from her grandmas.One bear was white and the other was brown./ Except for their colors, the bears were exactly the same./ Alice loved both of her bears, and didn’t really pay much attention when her grandmas argued over which one was her favorite.But when the bears start fighting to see who she likes best, Alice is forced to take drastic action./ This charming story of competition and cooperation features two naughty but endearing bears, and a little girl who loves them both very much. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Excellent read-aloud for pre-K - Kindergarten
I am a elementary librarian, and after seeing this book at a public library I purchased my own copy. It is great to share with the preschool and kindergarten students as a read-aloud. Really emphasizes the importance of being kind to one another and working together. Very cute story and what young child doesn't like a cute little bear story! The preschool teachers tell me the story reinforces the behaviors they want to see in their classroom. Highly recommended. ... Read more