Download or read book Over the River and Through the Wood written by Karen L. Kilcup and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers readers a view of the quality and diversity of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Complemented by period illustrations, this collection includes work by poets from all geographical regions, as well as rarely seen poems by immigrant and ethnic writers and by children themselves.