I Am Proud

By Hari Kleia

This book began a long time ago, it began with the feelings I had for children through the years; first from watching children playing in the playground and later from spending time with my nephews.

Filled with an abundant wealth of emotions the poetry came out naturally, effortlessly as an expression of my love and joy from being around them.

My favorite sounds are the stormy sounds of children playing in the playground; I always thirst for those exhilarating sounds and I always enjoy watching children at play.

I am always happy been around them, they excite me and in return I like to excite them, they exalt me and I very much like to exalt them.

I hope I can give back a little, I wish I can do that with my poems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490735528

Hari Kleia

About the Author Hari Kleia is an architect and artist. For several years now, she has been writing poems, dreams, and thoughts and lately poems and tales in the form of poetry for children. Just out of love and care for the children. This is her first book. About the Illustrators Evan and Michael Kistner are the author’s nephews. They are twins, eight-year-old third graders at PS 203. It was very pleasant and exciting making the book together. They enjoy arts, books, cartoons, comedies, and sports.

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i am proud

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Contents

a, b, c, and 1, 2, 3,

Golden Crown

Francesco

Arctic Circle

As Earth Turns

Does Love Make us Happy?

The Dream

Happiness Is Free

My Room Is Perfect in Size

Joys of Children

Listening

Little Boy

Little Girl

Little Owl

Little Owls

Monsoon Snow

Olympian Gods

Priceless

Small and Large

Sometimes I Imagine

The Grizzly Bear

Tiny Octopus

To Catch a Whale

To Tell a Secret

To Michael and Evan

Greek Heroes

Whale on a Mountaintop

Years from Now

To Counsel the Young

To Teach Tenderly

To the children in my family

and to all the children in my life.

For they all have inspired me

to write this book

and far more.

a, b, c, and 1, 2, 3,

You tell me a, b, c is all I need

to learn in school and not 1, 2, 3,

and I say I learned a, b, c when I was three

and I learned 3, 4, and 5 when I was