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Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye is both a beloved poet and a sought-after speaker and educator. This celebratory book collects her most popular and accessible poems from the past forty years in one volume, features new never-before-published poems, and will include an introduction by the poet.

Many of Naomi Shihab Nye's poems - such as "Famous," "A Valentine for Ernest Mann," "Torn Map," and "Kindness" are classroom staples and teacher favorites. This collection, published to celebrate her term as Young People's Poet Laureate (August 2019August 2021), presents the poet's most accessible and luminous poems together for the first time. The book will serve as an introduction to the poet's work for a new audience as well as a master "collected poems of" edition for classroom and family sharing.

Naomi Shihab Nye is the current Young People's Poet Laureate. She is the author and/or editor of more than 30 volumes. Her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a bestselling poetry book of 2006). Her recent novel for children, The Turtle of Oman, was chosen as both a Best Book of 2014 by the Horn Book and a 2015 Notable Children's Book by the American Library Association. Naomi Shihab Nye is Professor of Creative Writing - Poetry at Texas State University. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.