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The Children's Hour

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair."
Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place , here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair.
Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.

Language: English

Pages: 32

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: January 01, 1993

ISBN: 0879239719

ISBN 13: 9780879239718

The Children's Hour

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair."
Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place , here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair.
Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.

Language: English

Pages: 32

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Release: January 01, 1993

ISBN: 0879239719

ISBN 13: 9780879239718

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