Children's Literature Winter Camp 2010 兒童文學冬令營--Day 1

4 Days & 3 Nights (January 26 ~ January 29)

21:00  Bedtime Poetry VS. Sweet Dreams!  睡前小詩與甜蜜夢鄉   THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY Jack Prelutsky ILLUSTRATED BY Arnold Lobel

* DOGS AND CATS AND BEARS AND BATS (p.52-53) Mammals are a varied lot; some are furry, some are not; many come eqipped with tails; some have quills, a few have scales.   Some are large, and others small; some are quick, while others crawl; they prance on land, they swing from trees; they're underground and in the seas.   Some have hooves, and some have paws; some have fangs in snapping jaws; some will snarl if you come near; others quickly disappear.   Dogs and cats and bears and bats, all are mammals, so are rats; whales are mammals, camels too; I'm a mammal... so are YOU!

* Night Comes...  by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers   Night comes leaking out of the sky.   Stars come peeking.   Moon comes sneaking, silvery-sly.   Who is shaking, shivery- quaking?   Who is afraid of the night?   Not I.

* Night by Mary Ann Hoberman   The night is coming softly, slowly; Look, it's getting hard to see. Through the windows. through the door, Pussyfooting On the floor, Dragging shadows. Crawling, Creeping, Soon it will be time for sleeping. Pull down the shades. Turn on the light. Let's pretend it isn't night.

*The Star by Jane Taylor   Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.   As you bright and tiny spark, Lights the traveler in the dark-- Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

*Silver by Walter de la Mare   Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep; A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

*The Night Is a Big Black Cat by G. Orr Clark   The Night is a big black cat The Moon is her topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night, In the field of the sutry sky.