Visit mermaids by the sea with Emily Dickinson, pick apples on a crisp autumn day with Robert Frost, fight to follow your dreams with Paul Laurence Dunbar, puzzle over the mystery of the Queen of Hearts with Christina Rossetti, and venture into the wild American West with Walt Whitman. Targeting elementary school-aged children ages eight and up, this textbook and activity book offers thirty-six lessons interweaving poetry, vocabulary, mapwork, discussion, copywork, narration, dictation, and artwork. Lessons also introduce literary devices including metaphors, similes, and personification.