16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" Early Readers

16 Words: William Carlos Williams and "The Red Wheelbarrow" Early ReadersThis simple nonfiction picture book about the beloved American poet William Carlos Williams is also about how being mindful can result in the creation of a great poem like "The Red Wheelbarrow" which is only sixteen words long. "Look out the window. What do you see? If you are Dr. William Carlos Williams, you see a wheelbarrow. A drizzle of rain. Chickens scratching in the damp earth." The wheelbarrow belongs to Thaddeus Marshall, a street vendor, who

she grows along with the tree

a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L

English teacher

ISBN-13: 978-1338236590

and mercenary forces

and in the photo

ISBN-13: 978-1608877263

Though fiercely independent

packaged in a slipcase box

jazz-inflected prose makes the Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s come to gritty

and increase longevity

Paperback: 1008 pages