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Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
Julie Andrews - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1 Rei/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this comprehensive collection, coauthors Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton share a diverse assortment of their most cherished poems, songs, lullabies, hymns, and more.Featuring a wide range of beloved classics from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, and Robert Frost... |
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Said the Paper to the Pen: poems by Mr. B
Mike Bertram - Penmanship Books
Format: Paperback
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For the past 20 years, a new swarm of bees buzz into Mr. B's third-grade classroom where the power of poetry is used to learn from each other, embrace differences, build self-esteem, and search for the special hidden voice inside us. Said the Paper to the Pen is a collection of poems... |
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Bronzeville Boys and Girls
Gwendolyn Brooks - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the children who live together in an urban neighborhood. In 1956, Gwendolyn Brooks created thirty-four... |
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Vile Verses
Roald Dahl - Viking Juvenile
Format: Hardcover
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Roald Dahl is best remembered as the author of many well-loved children's stories. But he was also the creator of some astonishingly imaginative, outrageous, and wonderfully disgusting verses. From oozing grobes to slimy slugs, this extraordinary collection is bursting with Dahl's... |
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Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson
Chi Chung - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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Features more than 35 of Dickinson's best loved poems, including "I'm nobody, who are you?" and "I started early, took my dog." "The choice of...Emily Dickinson is a good one....Chi Chung's illustrations...are precise and sometimes whimsical....Attractive... |
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Here's A Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
Polly Dunbar - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one’s library and a georgeous gift to be both shared and treasured.Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein,... |
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Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
Gary D. Schmidt - Sterling; A Magnolia eds. bk edition
Format: Hardcover
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"In an attractive large-size volume...25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images... |
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Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
Nikki Giovanni - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover
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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INCLUDED IN THE BOOKLIST TOP 10 ART BOOKS FOR YOUTH! Our consensus is Hip Hop Speaks to Children is the most essential poetry purchase to make this year. The poetry is enough. The illustrations are enough. The CD is enough. Together, this book is a treasure... |
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Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes
Henry Herz - Pelican Publishing Company
Format: Print book
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Enter an enchanted land of mythical creatures where manticores reign and ogres roar-a land of mystery and fright. A unique twist on traditional rhymes of everyone's youth, "Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes" presents a more sinister approach to these childhood classics, and yet the sing-song... |
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Jumping Off Library Shelves
Lee Bennett Hopkins - WordSong
Format: Print book
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Here is the library, not just as a place that houses books, but as an experience. Fifteen poems celebrate the thrill of getting your first library card, the excitement of story hour, the fun of using the computer, the pride of reading to the dog, and the joy of discovering that the librarian... |
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Poetry Speaks to Children
Elise Paschen - Sourcebooks MediaFusion; Har/Com edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller! In the tradition of Poetry Speaks, the anthology named a Best Book of 2002 by School Library Journal, and praised by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "a volume to delight longtime lovers of poetry and to spark new love for poetry, especially among the young,"... |
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The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
Jack Prelutsky - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Until this century, most children's poetry was either syrupy sweet or overblown and didactic, and tended to talk down to its readers. Contemporary children's poets have thrown all that condescension and moralizing out the window, and write with today's real child in mind."-... |
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Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: and Other Poems
Jack Prelutsky - Greenwillow Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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What do you get when you cross A toaster with a toadA tuba with a baboonA clock with an octopusA hat with a chickenAn umbrella with an elephantWhy A Pop-up ToadsterA TubaboonThe ClocktopusA Hatchicken and The Bold UmbrellaphantAnd what do you get when you cross this book with a kidWhy... |
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My Dog May Be a Genius
Jack Prelutsky - Greenwillow Books
Format: Print book
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Have you ever encountered an underwater marching band, a pig in a bathing suit, a pet orangutan, or a witch in a hardware store? Have you ever sat with a skunk in a courtroom, shopped for a dinosaur, or conversed with a Bupple, a Wosstrus, a Violinnet, or a Celloon? You will have, once... |
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Emily Stew: With Some Side Dishes
Thomas Rockwell - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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This poetry mixes childhood emotions with a generous portion of imagination to make a quirky, sweet collection that has the flavor of Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, and Shel Silverstein. |
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Don't Bump the Glump!: And Other Fantasies
Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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Don't Bump the Glump! turns fifty! A commemorative gold anniversary sticker graces Shel Silverstein's first poetry collection, celebrating fifty years since publication. This, his only book in full color, was published the same year as his famous classic The Giving Tree.Filled with... |
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Every Thing On It
Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A spider lives inside my headWho weaves a strange and wondrous webOf silken threads and silver stringsTo catch all sorts of flying things,Like crumbs of thought and bits of smilesAnd specks of dried-up tears,And dust of dreams that catch and clingFor years and years and years . . .Have... |
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A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein
Format: Audiobook
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Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...Here in the attic... |
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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins
Format: Image
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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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Runny Babbit Returns
SHEL SILVERSTEIN - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Runny Babbit, the lovable star of Shel Silverstein's New York Times bestselling poetry book, is back! Runny Babbit Returns, a collection of 41 never-before-published poems and drawings, features Runny and other woodland characters who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.This carefully... |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
Shel Silverstein - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Where the Sidewalk Ends turns forty! Celebrate with this anniversary edition that features an eye-catching commemorative red sticker. This classic poetry collection, which is both outrageously funny and profound, has been the most beloved of Shel Silverstein's poetry books for generations.Where... |
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Outside the Box: A Book of Poems
Karma Wilson - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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This laugh-out-loud poetry collaboration from a New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and a Caldecott Honor illustrator is anything but ordinary. Dive in to Karma Wilsons latest collection of more than 100 poemssome humorous, some poignant, and all of them Outside the Box.... |
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What's the Weather Inside?
Karma Wilson - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Print book
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Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and Sunday's sundaes! New York Times bestselling author... |
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Twist: Yoga Poems
Janet S Wong - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover
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Come explore yoga in a new way with TWIST, a collection of sixteen original poems sure to inspire even the youngest yogi! Feel the damp soil beneath you as Cobra, and grab hold of a star as Half-Moon. From Low Crow to Eagle and from Triangle to Tree, yoga comes alive with Janet S. Wongs... |
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Animal Poems
Valerie Worth - Farrar
Format: Hardcover
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"Ms. Worth brilliantly employs all aspects of the poet's craft." - The New York Times Book ReviewEach of the exquisite twenty-three poems in this posthumous collection by Valerie Worth carefully distinguishes one animal from all other creatures and captures it in all of its wonderful... |
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