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Papa Is a Poet
by Natalie S. Bober
Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon
Ages: 9+
Published: 2013
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9407-7
Keywords: Farm life, Poetry
Frost's fifteen-year-old daughter narrates this description of her family's life in the New England countryside interspersed with lines from his poems. Includes twelve of his poems. Delicately simple mixed-media illustrations