collections

A sample of poems by poets who have received the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Poetry for Children, including David McCord, Aileen Fisher, Karla Kuskin, Myra Cohn Livingston, Eve Merriam, John Ciardi, Lilian Moore, Arnold Adoff, Valerie Worth, and Barbara Esbensen.

Humorous poems divided into categories such as "Me," "Parents," "Gross Out," and "All Mixed Up" by poets including Shel Silverstein, Judith Viorst, and Jack Prelutsky.

A collection of amusing verses by a variety of poets, including Emily Dickinson, Spike Milligan, Shakespeare, and others less well known.

A collection of poems with topics ranging from school to birds to nonsense.

A collection of poems describing the varied aspects of autumn.

An anthology of poems reflecting winter by such authors as Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and A.A. Milne.

An anthology of poems reflecting summer by such authors as Ted Hughes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, e.e. cummings, and Li Po.

An anthology of poems reflecting spring by such authors as Elizabeth Coatsworth, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Rudyard Kipling.

An anthology of poems reflecting autumn by such authors as Thomas Hardy, Theodore Roethke, and Maurice Sendak.

An illustrated collection of classic and modern nursery rhymes, poems, stories, and activity games for preschoolers through age five.