Books with title Little Red Bird

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This is a story about a small red headed boy whose father worked on the railroad during the depression. No electricity, no running water, outside toilets and no T.V. This story is fictional but similar events did occur. The names of people are fictitious, but some similar people actually did exist. No way did I allow telling the truth interfere with a good story. Most of the stories really happened, but some are figments of my imaginations. I was this little red headed boy and I hope you enjoy my childhood. Some of you may have done some of the same things. It was hard, but good. My name is J.W. Workman

Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work, / the soul has need of a body, / and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable / beauty of heaven / where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes, / and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart."This collection of sixty-one new poems, the most ever in a single volume of Oliver's work, includes an entirely new direction in the poet's work: a cycle of eleven linked love poems-a dazzling achievement. As in all of Mary Oliver's work, the pages overflow with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog, Percy. But here, too, the poet's attention turns with ferocity to the degradation of the Earth and the denigration of the peoples of the world by those who love power. Red Bird is unquestionably Mary Oliver's most wide-ranging volume to date.

What happens to Little Red Leaf when the wind starts to blow and he has to let go? One minute his life is great up in the big old maple tree with all of his colorful friends. The next minute he is in danger! Follow Little Red Leaf on his wild adventure to see where he ends up! Little Red Leaf is a story about hanging in there and never giving up. Sometimes when it seems that life is out of control, something really good can happen to make it better again.