children's poetry

Discusses the lives of twenty poets including Cynthia Rylant, Ashley Bryan, Paul Fleischman, Maxine Kumin, Brod Bagert, Constance Levy, Luis Rodriguez, and Michael Spooner.

Big Fat Hen counts to ten with her friends and all their chicks.

A collection of fifty-one children's poems that features selections from Nikki Giovanni, Queen Latifah, and the Sugarhill Gang; and contains an audio CD with thirty performances.

Over one hundred never-before-seen poems and illustrations by the beloved American artist pulled by his family from his personal archives.

A collection of traditional counting rhymes, including both popular and little-known verses.

A collection of poems about first experiences, from getting new sneakers to sledding down a snowy hill.

"Oh, your daddy was a baby once / And your mommy was a baby once ..." Characters in these nineteen diverse poems also include a soccer-playing Cinderella, snowmen who take holidays by the sea, dancing sausages, and three Unwise Men.

A collection of poems that instruct people to be gentle to the environment and appreciate, not destroy, nature.

A collection of poems by such authors as Jane Yolen, X.J. Kennedy, and Lee Bennett Hopkins inspired by color photographs of ice formations.

A poem celebrating the people, sights and sounds of Harlem.