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Adventures of Isabel
Author: Ogden Nash
The feisty Isabel defeats giants, wishes, and other threatening creatures with ease.
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Alphathoughts: Alphabet Poems
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Celebrated poet and anthologist Hopkins takes a fresh look at the alphabet in this bright bold book of alphabet poems from A to Z.
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Ancient Egypt
Author: Susan Altman and Susan Lechner
Through verse, young readers can explore the diverse and fascinating civilizations of the past.
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Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems
Author: Judy Sierra
From hatching and feeding to rearing and courting, the everyday adventures of the emperor penguins unfold in this collection of jovial verse. Young readers will identify with the challenges of childhood these feathered creatures face: waiting to be fed, s
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Book of Fairy Poetry
Author: Michael Hague
This collection of poems about fairies includes selections by J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, and Jack Prelutsky.
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Bugs: Poems About Creeping Things
Author: David L. Harrison
“Creepy, wild, and silly, the very simple verses in this small book are for reading aloud and joining in; in fact, many are for two voices, the second voice sometimes a buzzing chorus.”
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Buttercup's Lovely Day
Author: Carolyn Beck
A day in the life of Buttercup the cow. She shares the special parts of her day from sun-up to sun-down. This is a lovely earthy book of poetry that captures the essence of what it means to be a cow. You can almost smell the fragrant fields, the fuzzy, buzzy bees and the stinky, slinky funky skunk she meets during her day.
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Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow
Author: Joyce Sidman
Each poem is a riddle for you to solve! Follow the clues in the pictures to discover the surprising life in a wild meadow.
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Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
"The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day." So begins the poem about a nail-biter of a baseball game with a surprise ending. This book's humorous illustrations make the classic poem even more appealing.
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Child's Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses is the most popular collection of poems about childhood in the English language. Famous verses like The Swing and My Shadow are poems no child should grow up without. This edition is beautifully illustrated by twenty diffe
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Come to My Party and Other Shape Poems
Author: Heidi Roemer
Poems that celebrate favorite things from different seasons of the year, each shaped like the subject at hand.
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Dinosaur Dinner with a Slice of Alligator Pie
Author: Dennis Lee
A brightly illustrated collection of funny poems on a variety of whimsical topics.
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Dogku
Author: Andrew Clements
The story of a loveable dog is told in haiku.
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Don't Bump the Glump
Author: Shel Silverstein
A most unusual collection of whacky, funny, scary creatures with imaginative fantasies in verse.
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Dutch Sneakers and Flea Keepers
Author: Calef Brown
In the tradition of Edward Lear, Calef Brown has fashioned fourteen nonsense poems so wacky that both young and old will be unable to suppress their laughter.
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Flicker Flash
Author: Joan Bransfield Graham
Both the sounds and shapes of these poems celebrate many forms of light, from lightning and fireflies to candles and bulbs.
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Four in All
Author: Nina Payne
A simple, yet beautifully illustrated poem that chronicles one day in the life of a child. Illustrations are accompanied by rhyming lists of things that come in fours, such as "eyes, ears, nose, mouth" and "east, west, north, south."
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Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and Other Stories
Author: Adam Rex
Monsters have problems, too! Frankenstein’s cupboards are bare, and The Phantom of the Opera has “It’s a Small World” stuck in his head. Plus, who’s got the guts to tell Dracula he has spinach stuck in his teeth? These hilarious poems are recommended for ages 6 and up.
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From the Bellybutton of the Moon and Other Summer Poems
Author: Francisco X. Alarcon
A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet revisits and celebrates his childhood memories of summers, Mexico, and nature. Bright, engaging and fun.
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Fuzzy Fast Blur
Author: Laura Purdie Salas
A collection of original, pet-themed poetry for children accompanied by striking photos. The book demonstrates a variety of common poetic forms.
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Hate That Cat
Author: Sharon Creech
In the sequel to Love That Dog, Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.
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Imaginary Menagerie: a book of curious creatures
Author: Julie Hofstrand Larios
Illustrated poems discuss such mythical animals as the sea serpent, thunderbird and phoenix.
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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Author: Paul Fleischman
An outstanding collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. Winner of the 1989 Newbery Award.
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Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems
Author: Francisco X. Alarcon
A bilingual collection of humorous and serious poems about family, nature, and celebrations by a renowned Mexican American poet.
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Mary Engelbreit's Mother Goose Favorites
Author: Mary Engelbreit
Mary Engelbreit has included 23 classic Mother Goose rhymes and illustrated them with her bright and engaging artwork.
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My Beastie Book of ABC: Rhymes and Woodcuts
Author: David Frampton
The alphabetic rhymes in this book comes from conversations David Frampton has had with children about what animals they like and why. Illustrations and brief rhymes present an alphabet of animals from alligator and hippo to parrot and zebra.
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My Dog May be a Genius
Author: Jack Prelutsky
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 you've read collection of poems.
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Once I Ate a Pie
Author: Patricia and Emily MacLachlan
It's a dog's life, filled with squeaky toys, mischief, and plenty of naps. This collection of canines speaks up with their own words, barks, and yips.
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Pizza the Size of the Sun
Author: Jack Prelutsky
From the creators of the outrageously popular The New Kid on the Block and Something Big Has Been Here comes yet another wondrously rich, varied, clever--and always funny--collection of poems destined to become favorites.
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Pizza, Pigs and Poetry: How to write a poem
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Learn to appreciate poetry and to write your own poems with the examples and techniques of this favorite poet.
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Poems to Dream Together/Poemas para soñar juntos
Author: Francisco X Alarcón
This collection of 17 enchanting short poems celebrates children's connections to their families, communities, and the outside world. In Spanish and English.
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Poetry Speaks to Children
Author: Various
Featuring more than 100 poems--50 of them brought to life on CD--ranging from Gwendolyn Brooks to Ogden Nash to Shel Silverstein, this book/CD package reaches into the world of poetry and pulls out the things children love: rhyme, rhythm, fun, and every once in a while, a little mischief.
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Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems
Author: various
This volume of 30 concrete poems from visual poets such as John Hollander, Emmett Williams, Maureen W. Armour and others provide a playful, visually accessible collection that is illustrated by Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka.
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Reaching for Sun
Author: Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Told entirely in verse, this book eloquently tells the story of Josie, a young girl with cerebral palsy and lives with her mother and grandmother who befriends a boy who moves into one of the rich houses behind the family’s old farmhouse.
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Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
Author: Joyce Sidman
The gentle, beautifully illustrated poems in this Caldecott Honor book celebrate the many creatures that live in a pond. Brief facts about pond life are also included.
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Sports! Sports! Sports! A Poetry Collection
Author: Various
A collection of poems celebrating the joy and anguish of baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey, soccer, skating, swimming, and running races.
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Author: Robert Frost
Illustrations of wintry scenes accompany each line of the well-known poem.
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Swamps of Sleethe: Poems from Beyond the Solar System
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky’s exploration of outer space is not for the faint of heart. No friendly little E.T.type aliens await your arrival. There are many imaginative ways to perish in these darkly comedic cautionary verses about unexplored worlds so far beyond our solar system. Here are poems the older reader will find great fun to memorize and rattle off to anyone who will listen! And there is a special bonus: anagrams for the kid who loves word puzzles.
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Tale of Custard the Dragon
Author: Ogden Nash
In this humorous poem by the witty Ogden Nash, Custard the cowardly dragon saves the day when a pirate threatens Belinda and her pet animals.
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This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
Author: Joyce Sidman
Mrs. Merz assigns her sixth-grade students to write poems of apology, and what emerges is a surprising array of emotions, poetic forms, and subjects from dead pets and biting hamsters to angry siblings and betrayal of trust.
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Wham! It's a Poetry Jam: Discovering Performance Poetry
Author: Sara Holbrook
A guide to performing poetry alone and in groups; includes guidelines to set up poetry-performance contests.
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What's the Weather Inside?
Author: Karma Wilson
More than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids.
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When We Were Very Young
Author: A.A. Milne
Verses full of bubbling nonsense and rhythm, written for the author's son, Christopher Robin.
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Zorgamazoo
Author: Robert Paul Weston
Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the earth. A novel in verse.
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