A multicultural anthology of poems represents the poetic voices, observations, traditions, and stories of people from some sixty countries around the world.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Simon & Schuster .

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and anthologist and the acclaimed author of Habibi: A Novel and Sitti's Secrets, a picture book, which was based on her own experiences visiting her beloved Sitti in Palestine. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has taught writing and worked in schools all over the world, including in Muscat, Oman. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.