children's poetry

Inspired by William Carlos Williams' famous poem "This Is Just to Say," Gail Carson Levine delivers a wickedly funny collection of her own false apology poems, imagining how tricksters really feel about the mischief they make.

A collection of poems especially chosen to be read aloud, by authors ranging from Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson to Gwendolyn Brooks and David McCord.

A contemporary interpretation of the well-known nineteenth-century nursery rhyme about the school-going lamb.

In this bedtime poem, three fishermen in a wooden shoe catch stars in their nets of silver and gold.

An adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers. Includes illustrations and comments by children, as well as suggestions for activities based upon the story.

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

A collection of poems about the four seasons by American poet Robert Frost.

A comprehensive collection of over three-hundred traditional nursery rhymes.

Presents fourteen poems by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple about the smelly attributes of different animals.

Presents various children's poems that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, and offers related commentary.