children's poetry

A collection of poems, by male and female authors, presented in pairings that offer insight into how men and women look at the world.

Starting with the nursery rhyme about buying a fat pig at market, this tale goes on to describe a series of unruly animals that run amok, evading capture and preventing the narrator from cooking lunch.

Describes what winter would have been like in Shakespeare's England.

A collection of Wynton Marsalis poems and Paul Rogers portraits from A-Z honoring the great figures of jazz. Includes profiles of each jazz great along with suggested recordings.

A collection of poetry and prose by Canadian author Jean Little.

Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.

In the illustrations accompanying this traditional nursery rhyme, a child finds a key and goes on a magical trip away from her squalid inner-city environment into a landscape filled with color, excitement, and love.

A collection of stories, nursery rhymes, fables, and illustrated topical word lists covering such subjects as numbers, alphabets, manners, seasons, and many others.

In this variation on the familiar counting rhyme, seven little hippos persist in jumping on the bed, only to fall off one by one and bump their heads.