Children's poetry, American
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Children's poetry, American
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Children's poetry, American
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- Life doesn't frighten me, poem, by Maya Angelou ; paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat ; edited by Sara Jane Boyers
- Spooky poems, collected by Jill Bennett ; pictures by Mary Rees
- A fury of motion, poems for boys, Charles Ghigna ; foreword by X.J. Kennedy
- Wake up!, poem by Helen Frost ; photographs by Rick Lieder
- Guyku, a year of haiku for boys, written by Bob Raczka ; art by Peter Reynolds
- The baby's playtime book, [compiled by] Kay Chorao
- The fish with the deep sea smile, stories and poems for reading to young children, by Margaret Wise Brown ; illustrated by Roberta Rauch
- Four fur feet, by Margaret Wise Brown ; illustrated by Woodleigh Hubbard
- A poke in the I, [collected by] Paul Janeczko, Chris Raschka
- The Oxford illustrated book of American children's poems, edited by Donald Hall
- You be good and I'll be night, jump-on-the-bed poems, poems by Eve Merriam ; pictures by Karen Schmidt
- Cast away, poems for our time, Naomi Shihab Nye
- Ellington was not a street, written by Ntozake Shange ; illustrations by Kadir Nelson
- The 20th century children's poetry treasury, selected by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Meilo So
- Scranimals, by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Peter Sis
- Thirteen moons on turtle's back, a Native American year of moons, by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London ; illustrated by Thomas Locker
- A light in the attic, Shel Silverstein
- Speak up, more rhymes of the never was and always is, by David McCord ; illustrated by Marc Simont. --
- Once inside the library, by Barbara A. Huff ; illustrated by Iris Van Rynbach
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, by Eugene W. Field ; illustrated by David McPhail
- Bow wow meow meow, it's rhyming cats and dogs, poems and paintings by Douglas Florian
- Hanukkah lights, holiday poetry, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; pictures by Melanie Hall
- Lullaby, for a black mother, a poem by Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Sean Qualls
- La Nochebuena south of the border, written and illustrated by James Rice ; translated by Ana Smith
- Flicker flash, poems, by Joan Bransfield Graham ; illustrated by Nancy Davis
- Who shrank my grandmother's house?, poems of discovery, Barbara Juster Esbensen ; illustrated by Eric Beddows
- Ghastlies, goops & pincushions, nonsense verse, X.J. Kennedy ; drawings by Ron Barrett
- A lucky thing, poems by Alice Schertle ; paintings by Wendell Minor
- Marguerite, go wash your feet, Wallace Tripp. --
- Babushka's Mother Goose, Patricia Polacco
- A handful of beans, six fairy tales, retold by Jeanne Steig ; with pictures by William Steig
- Every thing on it, poems and drawings, by Shel Silverstein
- Thanksgiving Day at our house, Thanksgiving poems for the very young, written by Nancy White Carlstrom ; illustrated by R.W. Alley
- Sweep up the sun, poem by Helen Frost ; photographs by Rick Lieder
- I scream, you scream, a feast of food rhymes, Lillian Morrison ; illustrations by Nancy Dunaway
- You read to me, I'll read to you, very short Mother Goose tales to read together, by Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrated by Michael Emberley
- The Music of what happens, poems that tell stories : a selection, by Paul B. Janeczko
- Follow follow, a book of reverso poems, Marilyn Singer ; illustrated by Josée Masse
- Pug and other animal poems, Valerie Worth ; pictures by Steve Jenkins
- Bone poems, by Jeff Moss ; illustrated by Tom Leigh
- The night before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore ; illustrated by James Marshall. --
- Hailstones and halibut bones, adventures in color, by Mary O'Neill ; newly illustrated by John Wallner
- Falling hard, 100 love poems by teenagers, edited by Betsy Franco
- Read-aloud rhymes for the very young, selected by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Marc Brown ; with an introduction by Jim Trelease
- The Creation, by James Weldon Johnson ; illustrated by James Ransome
- Knock at a star, a child's introduction to poetry, [compiled] by X.J. Kennedy and Dorothy Kennedy ; illustrated by Karen Lee Baker
- Hoop kings 2, new royalty, Charles R. Smith, Jr
- The dream keeper and other poems, Langston Hughes ; illustrations by Brian Pinkney, with additional poems by Langston Hughes
- A Zooful of animals, selected by William Cole ; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
- You read to me, I'll read to you, by Mary Ann Hoberman ; illustrated by Michael Emberley