children's poetry, english

Forty-five poems reflect on all aspects of life from nature to people to whimsy.

Presents all of the nonsense poems, limericks, alphabets, and drawings of English author-painter Edward Lear.

A collection of poems, including old favorites and new ones.

Presents a collection of silly, scary, and disgusting poems about monsters and other unusual creatures.

Collects eight illustrated nursery rhymes, including the title selection in which a young girl is frightened by a spider.

A collection of short poems on various subjects, by Robert Louis Stevenson, A.A. Milne, Christina Rossetti, and other authors.

A collection of poems using the theme of imagination, by writers from Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson to Eve Merriam and Shel Silverstein.

Each month brings something new and different in this classic rhyme about the changing seasons.

A collection of silly rhymes for children by Roald Dahl.

An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow.