Behind the Museum Door: Poems to Celebrate the Wonders of Museums

by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Author), StaceyDressen-McQueen (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $3.70

  Lee Bennett Hopkins has compiled another stunning poetry collection, this time on the art, artefact and anthropology of museums. Perfect for both art and natural history museums, as well as the classroom and library, these poems capture the wonder and amazement of mummies, medieval and ice age relics, dinosaur bones, sculptures, fine art, mobiles, ceramics, fossils, tapestries and dioramas. It features celebrated poets Lee Bennett Hopkins, Jane Yolen, Myra Cohn Livingston, Felice Hoffman, Marilyn Singer, Kristine O'Connell George, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, and more and illustrated by award-winning new talent, Stacey Dressen-McQueen.