children's poetry, american

Forty-one poems reveal a variety of secret thoughts, worries, and wishes.

The popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game, with additional text placing it in the context of Little League.

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

Presents thirteen poems about the colors found in nature, complemented by color photographs.

A collection of Valentine poems including "I Made My Dog a Valentine" and "I Love You More Than Applesauce".

Presents more than thirty short poems about the many different material things that fill a day at school, including crayons, glue, swings, chairs, and the teacher's desk.

A color-illustrated collection of poetry suitable for memorization by children, arranged according to such themes as "Fur and Feathers" "Peace and Quiet," and "Long and Lingering," and featuring such poets as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, Roald Dahl, and Seamus Heaney.

A collection of simple poems depict the activities at school from the morning welcome until the closing bell.

A new version of the traditional Mother Goose rhyme with fourteen new verses describing the activities of a group of children on a large farm.

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet.