Poetry

"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--Provided by publisher.

Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.

Presents an illustrated collection of poems which showcases twenty-nine different poetic forms, each with a brief definition.

A collection of poems that provide a look at some of the animals, insects, and plants that are found in ponds, with accompanying information about each.

A collection of poems in which words and art combine to make pictures of the life of an 11 year-old boy.

A compilation of poems by Americans writing about American art in the twentieth century, including such writers as Nancy Willard, Jane Yolen, and X. J. Kennedy.

A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.

Presents a story about a teacher who tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything and a student is struck with a curse where he hears nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.

Collects poems that examine survival in nature, and includes information about a number of plants and animals.

A series of poems tells how two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail.

A collection of poems that explore all kinds of loss.

Poems tell the story of nineteenth-century teacher Prudence Crandall and the students she taught at her Canterbury, Connecticut, school for African-American girls before persecution forced its closing.

A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.

A collection of haikus that celebrates indigenous foods of the Americas, such as blueberries and vanilla, and includes information about each food's origins

Presents a collection of children's poetry by author, cartoonist, playwright, and poet Shel Silverstein that uses spoonerisms in place of traditional poetic form.

A collection of poems, including "Golden Goodness," "Cranberry Red," and "Biscuit Brown," celebrating individuality and Afro-American identity.

Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.

A collection of poems about a thirteen-year-old boy whose father abandoned him and his family.

A collection of short poems by such authors as Eve Merriam, Ogden Nash, and Charlotte Zolotow.

Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.

A cat arrives at a shelter, arranges to go home with a good family, and settles in with them, all the while letting them know who is boss and, finally, sharing his real name.

A collection of poems about honeybees and their role in the ecosystem.

A collection of twenty whimsical poems about comets, the stars, moon, and the planets.

Presents twenty-six sijo, traditional Korean syllabic poems, on "inside" and "outside" themes.

Presents twenty-one short poems about such insects as the inchworm, termite, cricket, and daddy longlegs.

A collection of poems and lyrics from several songs provides a look at our country, from colonial times to the present.

A collection of more than 130 original, never-before published poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein.

Presents the popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game as a scrapbook of antique woodcuts, clippings from Mudville newspapers, and other memorabilia.

A collection of poems about the sea, accompanied by watercolors by artist Meilo So.

A collection of poems about math, featuring selections such as "Math Makes Me Feel Safe," "Fractions," "Pythagoras," and "Time Passes," by a variety of authors including Janet S. Wong, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Ilo Orleans, and others.

A collection of poems, accompanied by photographs, about African-American children living around the turn of the century.

Thirteen Latin American poets present a collection of works that combine English and Spanish and describe the bonds between mothers, grandmothers, and children.

A poem relating the dedicated efforts of Harriet Tubman to lead her fellow slaves to freedom.

A collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.

A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson. Includes author's note, list of Air Force bases, and explanation of the free verse and tanka poetry forms used.

Presents the 1893 poem written by Katharine Lee Bates in celebration of the beauty of America, and features illustrations by Bates' great-great-grandnephew, as well as the musical notation for the song inspired by the poem.

A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity.

Original poems about snow.

A collection of humorous poems about the proper way to eat soup, visit a museum, and shake hands with the principal.

A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the poets, brief biographical background, and illustrations.

Presents humorous poems about insects, accompanied by close-up photographs of bug faces and interactive displays.

"A picture book look at many of the men and women who revolutionized life for African Americans throughout history"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of poems written by rap artist and actor Tupac Shakur at the age of nineteen.

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

Twenty-one poems about growing up in an Hispanic neighborhood, highlighting the delights in such everyday items as sprinklers, the park, the library, and pomegranates.

Books are give the opportunity to speak in an illustrated collection of humorous poems.

Contains poems about the different people who stop by Marisol's father's music store on a hot summer night, looking for just the right songs to make their hearts fly home.

A collection of poems for children featuring woodcut illustrations and rhyming text from David Elliot on the characteristics and behaviors of sea horses, sharks, urchins, whales, and other sea creatures.

A collection of poems on different subjects and in different styles, that lend themselves to memorization.

An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.

A collection of poems describing the highs and lows of a pirate's life at sea.

An illustrated collection of thirty-five humorous poems by Edward Lear for children and adults.

Introduces the poetry of William Shakespeare through a sampling of sonnets and excerpts from his plays.

An illustrated collection of twenty-six popular poems by Lewis Carroll. Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.

Presents a collection of humorous poems and drawings by American author Shel Silverstein, and includes selected readings by the author on CD-ROM.

Collection of verses that places the poems of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands alongside the poems of the West. Some poems include artwork that complement the poetry.

Presents a selection of the African American poet's work which celebrates childhood, work, solitude, aging, courage, and the experience of freedom.

An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems by noted African-American poet Langston Hughes, and contains a detailed introduction and biography, as well as brief notes accompanying each poem.

Presents the favorite poems of nearly fifty well-known people, accompanied by letters in which they explain their choices; solicited by fifth graders at The Nightingale-Bamford School in New York as part of a class project.

Poems celebrate themes and moods from Hispanic-American teenage life, from the passion of learning English to the pain of ethnic prejudice.

A madcap variation of the cumulative nursery rhyme, this time beginning when Jack writes a book.

Presents a collection of brief, illustrated poems that tells the story of a dog who slips out of his house and meets a white cat left alone on the street and together they share adventures.

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

Presents Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem on the theme of courage in everyday life.

A collection of twenty-five nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies, the Loch Ness monster, and other fearsome creatures.

An illustrated collection of poems that celebrates reading, featuring selections by Karla Kuskin, Jill Corcoran, Jane Yolen, and others.

A collection of children's poetry about childhood embarrassments.

Presents a collection of poems by African-American poets, including Lucille Clifton, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Elizabeth Alexander.

Presents an illustrated collection of animal poems for young people, including selections from William Blake, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Walt Whitman, and many others.

Colorful illustrations and poems introduce children to poetry, teaching them about the different types of poems and the most popular poets from history; includes a CD with readings of the poems included in the book.

A collection of short poems with titles such as "In the Morning at the National Zoo," "Cell Phone," and "Backpack Mystery.".

Presents a collection of poems about the fabled beasts that are part of the Creature Carnival, including the Sphinx, Cerberus, Nessie, the Frog Prince, and others.

Poems about sports, family, school, etc.

A collection of poems that celebrates the music and artistry of storms.

Selected works by William Butler Yeats appear alongside original artwork depicting the major themes of the poems.

A selection of thirty-four poems from the Pulitzer Prize winner, including an introduction about her life and work.

A collection of poems about the autumn illustrated with photographs of the outdoors in this season.

An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.

Humorous poems about different kinds of flies are accompanied by factual information about these creatures.

Selections of poems by the 19th century English poet, Robert Browning, with full color illustrations based upon the poetry.

Presents a collection of illustrated poems that describe the different seasons of the year.

A collection of sixty-five original poems that depict people and events throughout the history of the United States.

An illustrated collection of poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, including "A Boy's Summer Song," "The Sparrow," and "Little Brown Baby."

Verses and cut-out collages introduce children to the letters of the alphabet.

A collection of poems with an emphasis on the grisly or ghastly, including "If You're Strolling in a Sewer, " "Mr. One Leg, " and "A Vampire Bit a Ghostly Neck."

More than thirty poems celebrate water in its myriad forms, from the ocean to a droplet of dew.

The familiar Christmas poem is illustrated with photographs of dogs.

A collection of witty and ridiculous poems for children.