Poetry adventures

Celebrates everyday things in poems which demonstrate the haiku and lantern forms.

Features a collection of concrete poems inspired by such objects as a football, clock, and fork.

Explains what list poems are and how they can be written. Features a collection of over a dozen list poems for children discussing topics ranging from summer camp to dinosaurs. Includes sources of further information.

A collection of list poems including one that tells what a list poem is.

A collection of concrete poems for children.

A collection of thirty-five haiku and lantern poems.

"Quatrain? What kind of train is that? Actually, it's a poem! Quatrains are poems with patterns of rhyming words. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how quatrains work--and shows some of the many ways they can be written. "I Saw an Invisible Lion Today" is packed with poems on subjects ranging from grandmothers to muzaloos to make you giggle and howl. And when you've finished, you can try your hand at writing your own poems!"--Dust jacket.

A collection of illustrated limericks for children.

A collection of humorous poems in the form of acrostics in which the first letters of each line combine to form a word or words about the topic of the poem.