Kerley, Barbara. <br/><br/>
Walt Whitman :  words for America / 
by Barbara Kerley ; illustrated by Brian Selznick. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Scholastic Press,  c2004. 
 - 1 v. (unpaged) :  col. ill. ;  31 cm. 
<br/><br/> A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780439738910 9780439357913 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, American--Juvenile literature.<br/>Nurses--Juvenile literature.<br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care--Juvenile literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Cir 811.3 K457 2005