juvenile poetry

A collection of poetry and full-color artwork from Texas.

Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.

A collection of poems in which Rosa, a healer, describes her experiences trying to help Cuban peasants who have been forced to leave their farms and villages in 1896 and given eight days to find their way to "reconcentration camps" or be killed.

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

Readers are asked to picture themselves as the earth, turning in space, facing the light, feeling the green things growing and the oceans shifting.

A collection of poetry and nursery rhymes based on the Mother Goose rhymes. The rhymes show a few of the colorful and diverse aspects of African life, both modern and traditional.

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.

Presents a collection of poems by Nikki Grimes inspired by her 1988 visit to China, complemented by Ed Young's illustrations of his native land.

The story of America told through poetry, selected by one of the country's foremost historians.

Fourteen poems with mid-western themes or settings.