Poetry - Kids

This set of poems is a well-crafted display of current children's poetry combining beautiful words, fantastic pictures and lovely sounds. It emphasises the world's beauty and opens the imagination of children appreciating the world and the stars beyond. This book provides a wonderful insight...

Pencil Tree is a selection of short poem for children. In these poems, she uses beautiful words and advanced imagination to bring children into her world and mind. Various writing styles and wide topics attract all minds flying along these beautiful words.Author: Dan Wang,...

Preschoolers love babyanimals, and they love to move. Celebrate both with this Toddler Tough boardbook perfect for an active read-aloud!Fawns leap, / Hatchlings bounce, / Porcupettes nibble, / Kittens pounce. Storytime is on the move with this multilayered concept book. Preschoolers willenjoy learning fun...

Grandma Kitty's Coloring Book of Poetry is a coloring book of encouraging poetry verses for children. The intent is to help build self-esteem and promote acceptable behaviors. Also included are verses with words of comfort for parents or adults who have faced challenging situations....

Words I Speak is a creative tool, and inspirational picture book filled with interactive activities, self-building affirmations, and poetry geared to aid families in building and adding to the self-esteem of the children in their lives. The radiant and vivid pictures within this book,...

Chattering at School is a series of animal poems that invites the reader to learn and marvel at all the wonders of the natural world. The poems include fun narratives on the surface, while containing learning and teaching moments as the poems unfold. The...

Feeling a little homesick living in the US for over 20 years, Ron tried to test himself to remember all 11 Parishes of his home country of Barbados. He found that he would always miss 1 or 2 of them. To solve that he...

In a world full of schedules and plans, life can seem to go by much too fast. But as surely as Mother Nature moves from summer to fall without worry or regret, you can live in the moment and make the most of it...

I Carry Your Heart With Me is a children's picture book adaptation of the beloved E. E. Cummings poem, beautifully illustrated by Mati Rose McDonough. Showing the strong bond of love between mother and child, within nature and throughout life, E. E. Cummings's heartfelt...

A review of this book in Today's Zaman, 'Turkish Delight': Exploring Sultanahmet with a child, 2 October 2011 / MARION JAMES, ISTANBUL reads in part as follows: If I were taking a child around Sultanahmet, we would arrive home exhausted and fall into a...

This Deluxe Edition of The Dark Gnu and Other Poems by Wendy Videlock, in addition to the hardcover and dustjacket, uses premium glossy stock and special ink, resulting in vibrant color images and print, and overall luxurious feel. The difference is clearly noticeable when...

In this Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, Children's Literature Legacy Award-winner Nikki Grimes explores though her celebrated poetry how a supportive teacher can be the key to unlocking a dreamer's imaginative power through creative writing. Gabby's world is filled with daydreams. However, what...

Learn more about different cheers and chants that cheerleaders use to promote team spirit. The title features informative sidebars, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.Author: Marcia Amidon LustedISBN-10: 1624039863ISBN-13: 9781624039867Publisher: SportszoneLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2016Pages: 32Format: Library...

An anthology of universal poems focusing on the human experience--emotions, perceptions, and understandings--as expressed by poets of diverse heritage and reflected in illustrations featuring people of all ages and backgrounds.Amazing, your face. Amazing. Whatever we feel-whether happy or sad, excited or wishful, proud or...

A picture book that connects great works of architecture to the ways children build and play.Cupon cups tacking up, smaller, smaller, and growing taller! Children building-Concrete poetry- Pair them with notable structures from around the world and see children's constructions taken to the level...

Told with honesty and good humor, this moving picture book recounts beloved author Michael Rosen's recovery from Covid. One day, three people came to my bedsideand said: "Today we are going to get you up." After being admitted to the hospital in 2020 for...

Each title introduces readers to quatrain poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own quatrain poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated...

Each title introduces readers to limerick poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own limerick poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated...

Each title introduces readers to haiku poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own haiku poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated...

Each title introduces readers to free verse poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own free verse poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards...

Each title introduces readers to cinquain poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own cinquain poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated...

This title introduces readers to acrostic poems. Fun themed chapters help inspire budding poets to write their own acrostic poems about nature, food, sports, and more. Example poems in each chapter serve as guides to spark creativity. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated...

DEVELOPMENT: Voices of the People Trade Book (Hardcover)Author: Joseph BruchacISBN-10: 147887516XISBN-13: 9781478875161Publisher: Reycraft BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2023Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.62lbsSize: 12.28h x 10.56w x 0.72dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2022School Library Journal 10/28/2022 pg. 1Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2023 pg. 87Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2023 - Outstanding,...

Mindful haiku poems to help us rediscover our natural surroundings, without traveling too far from home. Some flowers are the subject of nursery rhymes and childhood games while others help us celebrate love, remember our homelands or mark the passing seasons. These mindful haiku...

An exciting debut collection full of magic, adventure, humor and empathy. Poetry transports you Over land and air and sea Find your poetry door today You already have the key Ride a silver-maned unicorn, make a witches' brew, head to Star City and become...

Winner of the CLPE Award for Children's Poetry 2020. This dazzling poetry collection bubbles with excitement and creativity, capturing the sheer joy of the natural world. Discover parades of beast-doodles, preposterous penguins, talking blossoms, playful birds, humble fleas and a host of other exotic...

This utterly unique book for kids 4 to 8 explores super-small creatures with astounding abilities through rhyming and comic-style spreads.Did you know that some of the smallest creatures on Earth have real-life superpowers?The minute oribatid mite can lift more than 1,000 times its own...

Step outside. Let's find designs-- / branching, cracking, spirals, lines. / Search the earth, the seas, the air. / Patterns, patterns everywhere. Look around and discover patterns in the natural world! You might see them in leaf veins, in coral reefs, in sand dunes,...

Some animal features are easy to see--long tails, large wings, patterned fur, or sharp beaks. But look closer--you might be surprised by what you find! A penguin's sharp beak hides a textured tongue that helps it grip fish. A red-eyed tree frog has a...

What is the tallest living thing? It's not an elephant, or a giraffe, or even a blue whale. It's a tree! Trees are the tallest living things on Earth. But how do they grow to be so tall? Science writer Rebecca E. Hirsch presents...

Celebrate family love with this heartwarming and soulful bedtime book perfect for toddlers 1-3!Shoo-be-do-wop along with your little one as you introduce them to the legendary music of the Motown era. Heartfelt text and whimsical illustrations will touch the hearts of sentimental parents and...

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don...

A poetic introduction to a distinctive island ecosystem that is home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. Using the same poetry/science note format as Serengeti, Gal疳agos tells the complex story of a young volcanic ecosystem influenced by seasonal ocean currents, where food...

Line up for this fascinating exploration of animal behavior from an award-winning author-illustrator! Much like humans, many animals line up for a variety of reasons. Rather than forming lines for the school bus or recess, the animals featured in Susan Stockdale's book form lines...

Lyrical text and gorgeous illustrations plunge readers into an undersea exploration of the mysterious, accomplished octopus and its astonishing abilities. Behold the octopus! This remarkable animal hides beneath the seas, so you may not realize that it is one of the most incredible, talented...

For fans of Enchanted Air by Margarita Engle and Life in Motion by Misty Copeland, this middle grade memoir in verse with "stellar writing [and] perfect pacing" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) chronicles a young girl and her family who must start over after losing...

In this delightful book, readers will learn how to write poems in a five-line poetic form called a cinquain. Examples help show budding poets how to condense text while using natural sentence structure in writing their own cinquains. Easy-to-understand text encourages concrete language, highlights...

Poet William Stafford wrote, "A poem is not the end, but the beginning, of an excursion." This collection, highlighting American poets born after the beginning of the twentieth century, helps young readers get started on their excursion into understanding poetry. The book includes brief...

This collection introduces readers to eleven British poets born between 1806 and 1914, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, and Dylan Thomas. Includes biographical information, historical background, poetry analysis, and several poems by each writer. Helps readers...

This collection surveys American poetry from the colonial period through the end of the nineteenth century, including eleven poets. Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Philip Frenau, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David...

This collection surveys British poetry from the early eighth through the middle of the nineteenth century, including fourteen poets. The anonymous Anglo-Saxons, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray,...

"Children will get the feel of the city and its delights from both the word pictures and the substantial artwork." -- Booklist Seventeen poems by Lilian Moore speak to the joys and everyday wonders of city living, including the hush of a snowy morning,...

"But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever!"Curl up with Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin in A.A.Milne's classic book of poetry for children, Now We Are Six.This work by A.A.Milne includes poems...

Abhipray is a collection 16 poems that discuss various shades of life.... All the words written in the book are pure like a 24 carat gold.... Free from any biasness or cheating ........ IT INTRODUCES YOU THE FEELINGS OF THE PRESENT GENERATION ABOUT THE...

Deafness is Deaf-initely not seen as a disability by many Deaf people! Writing Deaf with a capital "D" means someone is proud to be Deaf! It also means being part of a vibrant community with a beautiful language and culture. Sam is Deaf with...

The Good Dog is an allegory about how to love, accept, and show compassion to others through the eyes of a girl's love for her dog. It is the sequel to Charlie Finds Love.Author: Walker Jean MillsISBN-10: 1640033440ISBN-13: 9781640033443Publisher: Covenant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2018Pages: 40Format:...

The Good Dog is an allegory about how to love, accept, and show compassion to others through the eyes of a girl's love for her dog. It is the sequel to Charlie Finds Love.Author: Walker Jean MillsISBN-10: 1640033459ISBN-13: 9781640033450Publisher: Covenant BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2018Pages: 40Format:...

When I Was Little is a playful, joyous and mindful collection of poems by Antonia May Vandenberg Dunshie, 20th century self taught poet, that was commissioned by her surviving female descendants. As an observant child, Antonia began penning this collection of poems based on...

A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after...

Every little girl should always know that they are the prettiest, smartest, most amazing girl in the world, and this book is your new reminder! The beauty that lies in every young girl is more than what is on the outside and more than...