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Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems
Author: Judy Sierra
Through rhyming text a day-in-the-life of the emperor penguin is presented as mothers feed their young, fathers warm their chicks, and chicks learn to swim alone for the very first time.
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Beach Feet
Author: Kiyomi Konagaya
Immersing himself in the sensory experiences of a day at the beach, a very young child feels the heat of the sand, runs toward the ocean and explores familiar objects along the water's edge with his toes. E Konagaya
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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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Bookspeak! Poems about Books
Author: Laura Purdie Salas
A collection of wacky, whimsical poems about books and all the treasures they contain.
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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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Can You Dig It?
Author: Robert Weinstock
The creator of Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems sifts through everything from Brontosauruses, T. rexes and other dinosaurs to cavemen, archaeology and more, in a hilarious collection of wacky poetry.
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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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Dancing Pancake
Author: Eileen Spinelli
Everyone flips for the food at the Dancing Pancake! Short, sweet poems give us a peak into Bindi’s life as her family opens up a new diner and her life changes in other ways.
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Dizzy Dinosaurs: Silly Dino Poems
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
A collection of funny poems about dinosaurs, both real and fictional, including the muddy Triceratops, the pilot Pterodactyl, and the dancing Sauropods.
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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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Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems
Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create wacky verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies, while Michael Slack's illustrations keep the mix of poetry and math light and fun. J811.54 LEW
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Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems
Author: Kristine O'Connell George
Jessica celebrates all the fun she has with her little sister, Emma, but also describes the ways in which Emma's behavior can be frustrating.
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Every Thing On It
Author: Shel Silverstein
This poetry collection includes more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by Shel Silverstein artist and selected by his family from his archives.
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Everybody Was a Baby Once
Author: Allan Ahlberg
This is an original collection of wry and playful poems for the very young.
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Forget-me-nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman
Hoberman presents a collection of poems, from both classic and contemporary poets, which are especially suited for learning by heart and reciting aloud.
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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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Green Mother Goose: Saving the World One Rhyme at a Time
Author: Jan Peck
The Green Mother Goose presents variations of popular nursery rhymes with environmentally-friendly twists.
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His Shoes Were Far Too Tight
Author: Edward Lear
Calef Brown’s surreal illustrations are the perfect complement to some of Lear’s most charming nonsense poems. An introduction by the always funny Daniel Pinkwater makes this book of silly verse complete.
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I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
Author: Cynthia Grady
A volume of evocative and moving poems considers the experiences of slaves.
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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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In the Sea
Author: David Elliot
This collection combines lighthearted verse and striking woodcut illustrations in an introduction to the diversity of underwater life.
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Inside Out and Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
Through free verse, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. Ages 9-12
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Instructions: Everything You’ll Need to Know on Your Journey
Author: Neil Gaiman
Go on a journey to unknown, but strangely familiar, lands and then travel home again.
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I've Lost My Hippopotamus
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Dig into a new collection of previously unpublished poems by the first children's poet laureate, Jack Prelutsky.
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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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Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word
Author: Bob Raczka
Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle - this brand new poetic form turns word puzzles into poetry
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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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Maybe I'll sleep in the Bathtub tonight: and Other Funny Bedtime Poems
Author: Debbie Levy
Poems ending with a delightful twist capture the childhood experience of going to sleep, from sleep overs and beds crowded with animals to the fight to stay awake and that one last drink of water.
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McElderry Book of Mother Goose
Author: Petra Mathers
A vibrantly illustrated anthology of classic childhood nursery rhymes includes popular and lesser-known entries, from "The Cat and the Fiddle" and "Hickory, Dickory Dock" to "Little Miss Muffet" and "Terrence McDiddler the Three-Stringed Fiddler." J 398.8 MCE
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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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Oh, How Sylvester Can Pester! And Other Poems More or Less About Manners
Author: Robert Kinerk
Wacky characters introduce the idea of simple etiquette in a 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, 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 I Wrote When No One Was Looking
Author: Alan Katz
A treasury of more than one hundred whimsical poems that frolic on the lighter side of everything from school and siblings to sports and friendship.
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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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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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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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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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