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Publisher: Hyperion
Written By: Caroline Kennedy
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.81
EAN: 9781401302481
ISBN: 1401302483
Label: Hyperion
Manufacturer: Hyperion
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2005-09-15
Publisher: Hyperion
Release Date: 2005-09-14
Studio: Hyperion
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Timed to the publication of the author+s new illustrated children+s book, A Family of Poems, the national bestseller is now available in a specially priced gift editionJacqueline Kennedy Onassis loved literature, especially poetry. -Once you can express yourself,+ she wrote, +you can tell the world what you want from it+All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.+ Now, Caroline Kennedy shares her mother+s favorite poems and the worlds behind her strong belief in the power of literature. A wonderful volume for reading aloud or by yourself, a meaningful gift or keepsake, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis offers an intimate view of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis+ world, and a poignant glimpse into her heart.
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Reader Reviews for The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis:
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Summary: Enlightment to the World of Poetry
Comment: This book gives you a variety of poems, some you may know and some you will soon come to love. I never really was into poetry much until I read this book, and it has enlightened me to how much peotry can relate to oneself no matter when they were written. Some of my favorite poems are actually the ones Jackie wrote herself, especially the very last one called Meanwhile In Massachusetts. This is a great book to give as a gift or just for your own personal enjoyment. If you want to give someone a glimpse of poetry no matter their level then this is the book for it. Can't say enough good things about it, and will recommend to everyone I know and will give as gifts to my family members.
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Summary: Lovely book
Comment: This book is one-in-a-million. The poems are charming and sweet and perfect for a mom to read to a child.
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Summary: Love This Book
Comment: I bought this book @ Amazon as an impulse purchase. So glad I did.
What a lovely, beautiful book! The comments and introductions by Caroline are so informative and personal. Gives glimpses into her mother's true self.......and lives up to the woman I so admire.
Thank you, Caroline, for sharing her love of poetry with us.
Barbara Kerr Thompson
Springfield , MO
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Summary: A love of literature and language demonstrated
Comment: Finding the assortment of poems to be so well chosen was not a surprise. We would expect that in a book about Jacqueline by her daughter.What was a surprise was the particular assortment of poems presented. Her past, her youth, people in her life, scriptures, and then her own poems. I especially loved finding Jacqueline's own poems that she had written.
C.S. Lewis suggested about poetry that it is less like literature today. Not so with Jacqueline's poems. The collection of poems was a story itself.
Caroline said that one of the greatest gifts she and her brother received from her mother was her love of literature and language. This book demonstrates that claim. You can sense the way she felt and who she was.
A special find was finding the page "Books I read when I was young." I loved her poems, "Sea Joy" and "Thoughts". This is a book that is indeed a treasure.
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Summary: Like bedtime with my Dad
Comment: I was given this book by a dear friend for my 50th birthday. Imagine my surprise when it turned out Jackie was reading Caroline a lot of the same poems that my Dad used to read to my sister and me at bedtime. I lost this book, along with many others, in the flood following Katrina. There are books that I decided I could live without, but this one I had to replace.
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