Silver Pennies (Cdl5 1495) [Audio Cassette]

B. J. Thompson (Author)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Harper Audio (June 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0694508136
• ISBN-13: 978-0694508136
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,947,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Found again..., February 1, 2000

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ShadowHawk (VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silver Pennies (Hardcover)

This book was given to me over 30 years ago by a dear friend of my parents and has been lost to me for sometime. I remembered it so well because when you removed the book cover it showed (I think!) a girl and tree (on a hill?) embossed in silver, with silver pennies falling from the sky. The goblins, and those green glass beads, "Give them me" "No." What a wonderful introduction to the gifts of poetry and imagination. I look forward to my new copy.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book of poetry from childhood, August 7, 1999

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This review is from: Silver Pennies (Hardcover)

My mother, who is now 82, read poems from this book to her three children in the 1950s - I still remember sitting on her lap listening to "Animal Crackers" by Christopher Morley and my all-time favorite, "The House with Nobody In It" by Joyce Kilmer. I am delighted that it has been reprinted for me to read to my grandchildren.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What an Incredible Find, January 6, 2001

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Angie Johnson (Nyssa, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Silver Pennies (Hardcover)

A dear old friend gave this book (1952 ed) to me ten years ago. I was only 22 years old then and much to busy for poetry. She died a few years later. For ten years, I didn't pay it much mind. Then I had my first child and began to search among my books for poems that would be good to read at bedtime. To my delight, I rediscovered Silver Pennies. What a find! My husband and I read from it every night and our little 2 year old loves it. It's become almost a ritual at our house. I know my son doesn't understand all words, but the poems have a beauty all their own and he must appreciate it. I've read my favorites such as The Faithless Flowers, Rain in the Night, and Water Noises so many times that they're now committed to memory. I probably know at least a dozen of the poems by heart, which has been a real delight to my son when we are traveling or camping out and don't have books to read or light to read by. I just recite them to him in the dark -- he loves it and drifts off to sleep every time. My husband and I will always treasure this little book.