A Pocket of Time: The Poetic Childhood of Elizabeth Bishop

by Emma Fitzgerald, Rita Wilson (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Elizabeth Bishop

There are, always, so many things to wonder about.

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) grew up to become a famous poet, but before that, she was a little girl who lived with her Gammie and Pa in Great Village, Nova Scotia. It was there that Bishop learned to walk, to read, to write, to sing hymns, and to catch bumblebees in foxglove flowers. It was there she first went to school and, when she was five, where her mother left and never returned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771088095
• ISBN13: 9781771088091
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4