children's poetry, american

Presents Clement Moore's classic poem about a man who catches Santa going about his work on Christmas Eve.

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

Presents humorous poems songs and poems written and performed by Jack Prelutsky about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

A haiku poem about a loveable dog.

"Tsum Tsum means 'stack stack.' Inspired by our favorites, some haiku for you"--Page 4 of cover.

Picture book with music of the classic nursery rhyme.

Collects and illustrates twenty-five poems by American authors including Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Scott Key, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Carl Sandburg and Olive Wendell Holmes. Includes poem introductions and notes.

Presents a collection of poems with accompanying illustrations about the sights and sounds of a busy city.

Describes in rhyme the animals that one can see at ground level, such as turtles, crabs, and lizards.

A poem about human differences and similarities, accompanied by paintings of an interracial group of children sharing a sunny day and the universal childhood joy of just being together.