poetry

Contains twenty humorous poems about the bad habits, anxieties, and other fears and foibles of monsters.

The well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

Rhyming text and illustrations depict the science and geometrical patterns of various animals, such as starfish, peacocks, diamondback snakes, and spiders.

A collection of poems about science by a variety of poets, including Carl Sandburg, Valerie Worth, and David McCord.

A collection of poems about math, featuring selections such as "Math Makes Me Feel Safe, " "Fractions, " "Pythagoras, " and "Time Passes, " by a variety of authors including Janet S. Wong, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Ilo Orleans, and others.

An expanded version of the nineteenth-century poem in which a small girl accompanies a star on a journey through the night sky, examining both heavenly bodies and the earth below.

In the style of Clement Moore's familiar Christmas poem, tells of a family's last minute preparations for summer vacation.

This illustrated poetry collection eulogizes Emmett Till, an African American man who was killed in a brutal, racially motivated lynching in 1955.

Poems reflect life in lively classrooms and are based on the author's experiences as an elementary school teacher.

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.