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Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes

David Roessel - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Print book

WINNER OF THE 2007 CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR AWARD! A fresh design and appealing new cover enliven this award-winning collection in the acclaimed Poetry for Young People series. Showcasing the extraordinary Langston Hughes, it's edited by two leading poetry experts and features...
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The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry

Bill Martin Jr. - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

The definitive anthology of children's poetry, collected by a beloved author Years in the making, this full-color treasury contains nearly two hundred poems, all of them handpicked by Bill Martin Jr. Traditional children's poems are presented alongside contemporary pieces, and the collection...
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When We Were Very Young

A A Milne - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

Verses full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, written for the author's son, Christopher Robin. It is for "very small children (and for their elders who get a surreptitious joy from what is meant for their little ones) ."" -- Sunday Review, 1924
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Poems to Learn by Heart

Caroline Kennedy - Disney/Hyperion Books
Format: Print book

There's a poem to celebrate every moment in life-whether it's hitting a home run, watching a sunset, or laughing with your best friend. A poem is a gift of the heart that can inspire, reassure, or challenge us. Memorize it-share it-it's yours forever.In this diverse collection, a companion...
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Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village

Laura Amy Schlitz - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

Newbery Medal Winner! Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters.. Maidens, monks, and millers sons - in these pages, readers will meet them all. Theres Hugo, the lords nephew, forced to prove his manhood...
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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook

Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins
Format: Image

Runny Babbit turns 10! A special commemorative anniversary sticker graces Shel Silverstein's hilarious book of spoonerisms (words or phrases with letters or syllables swapped: bunny rabbit becomes Runny Babbit) to celebrate this momentous event.Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends...
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Dare To Dream To Change The World

J. Beth Jepson Jill Corcoran - Usborne
Format: Hardcover

From Jonas Salk, to Steven Spielberg, the subjects of these biographical-inspired poems invented, said and stood up for something. THEY DARED TO DREAM! This book makes a great graduation gift!. Book Details:Format: HardcoverPublication Date: 1/1/2013Pages: 40Reading Level: Age 5 and Up
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The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination

Mary Ann Hoberman - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Book

A poetry celebration of nature, science, the environment, and the wonder of it all, from the Children's Poet Laureate The Tree That Time Built is a moving anthology of more than 100 poems celebrating the wonders of the natural world and encouraging environmental awareness. With a focus...
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Revolting Rhymes

Roald Dahl - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Master storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darkly comic twists to six favorite tales, complete with rambunctious rhymes and hilarious surprise endings.
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Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons

Jon J Muth - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover

Caldecott Honoree and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author/artist Jon J Muth takes a fresh and exciting new look at the four seasons!Eating warm cookies on a cold day is easy water catchesevery thrown stone skip skip splashWith a featherlight touch and disarming charm, Jon J Muth--and...
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The Blacker the Berry

Joyce Carol Thomas - Amistad; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

We are color struck The way an artist strikesHis canvas with his brush of many huesLook closely at these mirrorsthese palettes of skinEach color is richin its own rightBlack is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed...
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The Neighborhood Mother Goose

Nina Crews - Greenwillow Books
Format: Hardcover

Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one favorite verses. Whether it's Jack jumping over a candlestick (atop...
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No More Poems!: A Book in Verse That Just Gets Worse

Rhett Miller - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rhett Miller teams up with Caldecott Medalist and bestselling artist Dan Santat in a riotous collection of irreverent poems for modern families. In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well...
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Amazing Faces

Lee Bennett Hopkins - Lee & Low Books
Format: Book

In this contemporary yet timeless collection, acclaimed anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins brings together sixteen selections that reveal through poetic word imagery the common universal emotions and feelings we all have, whether they be happy, excited, wishful, proud, sad, or lonely. The poems...
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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Wade Hudson - Crown Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding

Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this beautiful, full-color keepsake collection,...
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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems

Marilyn Singer - Dutton Children's Books
Format: Print book

With 6 starred reviews, 8 best of the year lists, and over 20 state award nominations, everyone is raving about Mirror Mirror!"Remarkable." - The Washington Post"This mind-bending poetry is accompanied by Masse's equally intelligent, equally amusing art."...
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Common Critters: The Wildlife in Your Neighborhood

Brisson, Pat - TILBURY HOUSE PUBL

Dan Tavis's humorous illustrations crank up the delight, and a child wanting to learn more will find it in the natural-history backmatter. Pat Brisson employs a variety of verse forms in the book, and she shows how it's done in a back-of-book feature called "A Peek into the Poet's...
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Kwame Alexander - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller!A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.Out of gratitude for the poet's art form, Newbery Award-winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory...
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I've Lost My Hippopotamus

Jack Prelutsky - Harpercollins Childrens Books
Format: Book

Some of the animals in this book are real. They include:the hippopotamus (she's missing) the elephant (he's artistically talented) the octopus (it's great at multitasking) .Others may not be quite so real. These include:the wiguana (very hairy, for a lizard) the halibutterfly (there's something...
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Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhha Lai - Harper
Format: Paperback

Inside Out and Back Again is a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience of fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama, this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been...
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Love That Dog

Sharon Creech - HarperTrophy
Format: Paperback

With a fresh and deceptively simple style, acclaimed author Sharon Creech tells a story with enormous heart. Written as a series of free-verse poems from Jack's point of view, Love That Dog shows how one boy finds his own voice with the help of a teacher, a writer, a pencil, some yellow...
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Out Of The Dust

Karen Hesse - Scholastic
Format: Paperback

This gripping story, written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration....
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The Dancing Pancake

Eileen Spinelli - Dell Yearling Books
Format: Book

DELICIOUS PANCAKES FREE ALL YOU CAN EAT COME TO OURNEW GRAND OPENING The grand opening of the Dancing Pancake isn't the only new thing in Bindi's life: new friends, a new apartment, maybe even a cute new crush? But there are other changes, like her dad's move to a new city, that have left...
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May B.

Caroline Starr Rose - A Yearling Book
Format: Print book

I've known it since last night:It's been too long to expect them to return. Something's happened."If May is a brave, stubborn fighter, the short, free-verse lines are one-two punches in this Laura Ingalls Wilder-inspired ode to the human spirit," raved Kirkus Reviews...
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Under the Mesquite

Guadalupe García McCall - Lee & Low Books
Format: Hardcover

Lupita, a budding actor and poet in a close-knit Mexican American immigrant family, comes of age as she struggles with adult responsibilities during her mothers long illness.As the oldest of eight siblings, Lupita is used to taking the lead-and staying busy behind the scenes to help keep...
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The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba

Margarita Engle - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter...
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The Crossover

Kwame Alexander - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

2015 Newbery Medal Winner 2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin...
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Jabberwalking

Juan Felipe Herrera - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Mexican-American Poet Laureate in the USA, is sharing secrets: how to turn your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry.Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal...
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Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Nikki Grimes - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, accomplished women--of all races--have fallen out of the historical records. The same is true for gifted, prolific, women poets of the Harlem Renaissance who are little known, especially as compared to their male counterparts. In this poetry collection, bestselling author...
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