Everything comes next : collected & new poems

Nye, Naomi Shihab (author.). López, Rafael, 1961- (illustrator.).

Summary: Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including 'Famous,' 'A Valentine for Ernest Mann,' 'Kindness,' and 'Gate A-4,' as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063013452
ISBN: 0063013452
Physical Description: print
x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Come with me -- Courage -- Messages from everywhere -- Please describe how you became a writer -- How to paint a donkey -- Supple cord -- Yellow glove -- Always bring a pencil -- Way they talk about art -- Sometimes I pretend -- Making a fist -- Sifter -- House made of rain -- Living with mistakes --- Boy and Mom at the Nutcracker ballet -- So there -- Editorial suggestions -- Dusk -- Mind of squash -- Necessity is only 8 miles away -- Little Blanco River -- Burning house -- His life -- Because of libraries we can say these things -- Cat plate -- Famous -- Museum -- Little boys running on the dock -- One boy tole me -- How far is it to the land we left? -- Something forgotten -- Traveling onion -- Lost parrot -- Before you can -- Blood -- My father and the figtree -- Arabic coffee -- Red brocade -- During a war -- For Mohammed Zeid of Garza, age 15 -- Day -- Everything in our world did not seem to fit -- Pictures from the occupied territories -- My grandmother in the stars -- It is not a game, it was never a game -- What kind of fool am I? -- Every day was your birthday -- Before I was a Gazan -- Double peace -- Amir & Anna -- Jerusalem -- Two counties -- Wedding cake -- So much happiness -- San Antonio -- United -- Pause -- Bill's beans -- Alphabet -- Lying while birding -- At Portales, New Mexico -- Nez Perce -- I still have everything you gave me -- If the shoe doesn't fit -- Tassajara -- Valentine for Ernest Mann -- Young poets of Winnipeg -- Shopper -- Art of disappearing -- Missing the boat -- Feeling wise -- Mysterious world -- Three hundred goats -- Storyteller -- Burlington, Vermont -- I don't know -- Mom gives away your ties -- Few questions for Bashar Assad -- Rain -- Shoulders -- Hummingbird -- What is supposed to happen -- Alive -- You are your own state department -- Communication skills -- Exotic animals, book for children -- Frogs did not forget -- Cross that line -- Ted Kooser is my president -- No one thinks of Tegucigalpa -- Broken -- Rider -- Torn map -- Problems with the story -- Paris -- Gate A-4 -- Only pine nuts can stop a war -- Mediterranean blue -- On doubt and bad reviews -- Common funeral myths -- World of the future, we thirsted -- I won't tell -- Early bird -- Lake Oswego -- Window -- Long marriage -- Confluence -- Do not touch the puffins -- Grocery store -- Montana before breakfast -- Mona's taco -- Tanya's winter -- Big song -- Altar of the steaming cup -- Getting older, Japan -- His love -- Blue river of Florida light -- Kindness.