For Kids
Here a Rhyme, There a Rhyme!
An ode to some verse-ital collections that can be read together or read on your own!
Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems
By Eloise Greenfield, illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist
HarperCollins, 2009 Ages 5-9
City I Love
By Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Marcellus Hall
Abrams, 2009 Ages 4-8
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By Douglas Florian
Atheneum, 2009 Ages 5-8
Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire!
By Jane O’Connor, illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser
Atheneum, 2009 Ages 5-8
Food Hates You, Too, and Other Poems
By Robert Weinstock
Disney/Hyperion, 2009 Ages 6-9
The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems
By Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Betty Fraser
Harcourt, 2006 Ages 5-10
More Pocket Poems
Selected by Bobbi Katz, illustrated by Deborah Zemke
Dutton, 2009 Ages 5-8
My People
By Langston Hughes, photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr
Atheneum, 2009 All Ages
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
By Langston Hughes, illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Disney/Jump at the Sun, 2009 Ages 5-8
Orangutan Tongs: Poems to Tangle Your Tongue
By Jon Agee
Disney/Hyperion, 2009 Ages 6-9
Red Sings from Treetops: a Year in Colors
By Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
Houghton Mifflin, 2009 Ages 4-8
Rhymes Round the World
Compiled by Kay Chorao
Dutton, 2009 Ages 3-5
Stampede! : Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School
By Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Steven Salerno
Clarion, 2009 Ages 6-8
Tan to Tamarind: Poems About the Color Brown
By Malathi Michelle Iyengar, illustrated by Jamel Akib
Children's, 2009 Ages 5-8
Truckery Rhymes
By Jon Scieszka, illustrated by David Gordon, Loren Long, David Shannon.
Simon & Schuster, 2009 Ages 3-6
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: Journey to the Wild Forest
By Deborah Ruddell, illustrated by Joan Rankin
Margaret K. McElderry, 2009 Ages 5-9
Classic Poetry: an Illustrated Collection
Selected by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Paul Howard
Candlewick, 2009 Ages 8-12
Falling Down the Page
Edited by Georgia Heard
Roaring Brook, 2009 Ages 7-11
A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout
Selected by Paul B. Janeczko, illustrated by Chris Raschka
Candlewick, 2009 Ages 9-12
Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
Selected by Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton, paintings by James McMullan
Little, Brown, 2009 Ages 7-12
Messing Around on the Monkey Bars and other School Poems for Two Voices
By Betsy Franco, illustrated by Jessie Hartland
Candlewick, 2009, Ages 7-9
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
By Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josee Massee
Dutton, 2010 Ages 7-11
Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing
By Gary Soto
Harcourt, 2009 Ages 11-14
Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else
Edited by Elise Paschen, Dominique Raccah, et al.
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2010 Ages 12-14
Steady Hands: Poems About Work
By Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, illustrated by Megan Halsey and Sean Addy
Clarion, 2009 Ages 9-12
The Swamps of Sleethe: Poems from Beyond the Solar System
By Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Jimmy Pickering
Knopf, 2009 Ages 8-11
Sweethearts of Rhythm: the Story of the Greatest All-girl Swing Band in the World
By Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney
Dial, 2009 Ages 9-14
The Underwear Salesman: Jobs for Better or Verse
By J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Serge Bloch
Atheneum, 2009 Ages 7-10