2005.
1st. ed.
Provides a listing of events, births of famous people, and holidays, with information and poetry about the twelve months of the year.
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins,
9780060007652
9780060007669
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Days to celebrate : a full year of poetry, people, holidays, history, fascinating facts and more
From "In memoriam" / Arithmetic / A question for Martin / Aphorisms / Prayer for the lunar new year / My people / Groundhog / Flying man / Weather / I love you / From "The rainy day" / Remembering Marian Anderson / Freedom! / Irish song for St. Patrick / Spring / Introduction to poetry / Blue-butterfly day / Pencils / If you believe me / From "More opposites" / Earth, what will you give me? / Little birds / Comments on poetry / Mother to son / There was a young lady of Firle / There was an old man with a beard / Fossil finds / Memorial Day / Now lift me close / Skipper / A father's hands / From "Stay, June, stay" / The river is a piece of sky / First lady of twentieth-century sports
From Sing-Song / Fourth of July parade / The ringmaster / St. Swithin's Day proverb / The new colossus / Evening: Ponte al mare, Pisa / The eagle / Casey at the bat / Wishing for winter in summer / Labor Day / From James Lee / Oh, the Lord is good to me / The naming of cats / Me x 2 yo x 2 / Treasure words / In the moon of falling leaves / Soccer / Subways are people / From Chansons innocentes, II / Windshield wipers / Windy nights / Two lives are yours / Thanksgiving / Iroquois prayer / I heard a bird sing / Muffs / From Near the window tree / The Year
Hopkins, Lee Bennett.
Alcorn, Stephen, illustrator.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Carl Sandburg ; Nikki Grimes ; Benjamin Franklin ; Janet S. Wong -- Langston Hughes ; Maria Fleming ; Mother Goose ; Anonymous ; Anonymous ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Joyce Carol Thomas -- Bobbi Katz ; Anonymous ; Prince Redcloud ; Billy Collins ; Robert Frost ; Beverly McLoughland -- Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Richard Wilbur ; Beverly McLoughland ; Anonymous ; various artists -- Langston Hughes ; Edward Lear ; Edward Lear ; Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Constance Andrea Keremes ; Walt Whitman -- Gwendolyn Brooks ; Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Christina G. Rossetti ; John Ciardi ; J. Patrick Lewis --
Christina G. Rossetti ; Anonymous ; Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Anonymous ; Emma Lazarus -- Percy Bysshe Shelley ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; X.F. Kennedy -- Marci Ridlon ; Robert Browning ; John Chapman ; T.S. Eliot ; Jane Medina -- Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Joseph Bruchac ; Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Lee Bennett Hopkins ; E. E. Cummings -- Rebecca Kai Dotlich ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Richard Armour ; Anonymous ; Anonymous -- Oliver Herford ; Lee Bennett Hopkins ; Karla Kuskin ; Felice Holman.
written and edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins ; illustrated by Stephen Alcorn.
2005
Days to celebrate : a full year of poetry, people, holidays, history, fascinating facts and more
2008.
The definitive anthology of children's poetry with beautiful illustrations.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers ,
9781416939719
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The Bill Martin Jr. big book of poetry
Big book of poetry
The pasture / Something told the wild geese / Mice / Caterpillars / The wolf / A bird came down the walk / Baby chick / A kitten / Crocodile / Foxes / The woodpecker / Weather / Clouds / Who has seen the wind? / The muddy puddle / Fog / Spring rain / The rainbow / What is pink? / Open house / The little rose tree / Afternoon on a hill / Metaphor / Sleeping outdoors / The star / Until we built a cabin / Wise / Taking turns / To look at any thing / Hurt no living thing / The months / New Year's Day / To my Valentine / March winds and April showers / April rain song / Green grass & dandelions / Autumn / October / The last word of a bluebird / Thanksgiving day / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Happy Hanukkah! / Christmas song / City song / Skyscraper / Subways are people / Climbing / In the woods / Knoxville, Tennessee / Child of the sun / Postman's song / The park / So many nights / Manhattan lullaby / Once upon a time / First day of school / Pick me, please / SOS / Take a number / I brought a worm / Ten little caterpillars / Word builder / Under the microscope / Poor substitute / The swing / I've got an itch / Papa says / This tooth / Bursting / My shadow / I am running in a circle / My dog / Vacation / Kick a little stone / I keep three wishes ready / The dark / Bed in summer / If I were in charge of the world / Painting the gate / My star / Dreamer / Grandpa's stories / in daddy's arms / Promises / A social mixer / My little sister / Some things don't make any sense at all / I love you little / On eating porridge made of peas / I eat my peas with honey / Speak clearly / Let there be pizza on earth / Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / Oodles of noodles / Herbert Glerbett / O sliver of liver / Beans, b
Sampson, Michael R.
Martin, Bill, 1916-2004.
Robert Frost -- Rachel Field -- Rose Fyleman -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Georgia Roberta Durston -- Emily Dickinson -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Eleanor Farjeon -- Anonymous -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Elizabeth Maddox Roberts -- Anonymous -- Christina G. Rossetti -- Christina G. Rossetti -- Dennis Lee -- Carl Sandburg -- Marchette Chute -- Christina G. Rossetti -- Christina G. Rossetti -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Rachel Field -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Eve Merriam -- Marchette Chute -- Jane Taylor -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Norma Farber -- John Moffitt -- Christina G. Rossetti -- Anonymous -- Rachel Field -- Anonymous -- Mother Goose -- Langston Hughes -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Frost -- Robert Frost -- L. Maria Child -- Robert Frost -- Eva Grant -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson -- Dennis Lee -- Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Nikki Giovanni -- Lillian M. Fisher -- Margaret Wise Brown -- James S. Tippett -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Rachel Field -- Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson -- Aileen L. Fisher -- Kalli Dakos -- Beverly McLoughland -- Mary O'Neill -- Kalli Dakos -- Bill Martin Jr. -- Ann Whitford Paul -- Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Kalli Dakos -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Jack Prelutsky -- Libby Stopple -- Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Dorothy Aldis -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Jack Prelutsky -- Tiptoe / Karla Kushkin -- Marchette Chute -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Dorothy Aldis -- Annette Wynne -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Judith Viorst -- May Swenson -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- Langston Hughes -- Langston Hughes -- Folami Abiade -- David A. Anderson -- X. J. Kennedy -- William Wise -- Judith Viorst -- Anonymous -- Louis Phillips -- Anonymous -- Martin Gardner -- David Canzoneri and Bill Martin Jr. -- John Ciardi -- Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. -- Jack Prelutsky -- Myra Cohn Livingston --
edited by Bill Martin Jr., with Michael Sampson ; foreword by Eric Carle ; afterword by Steven Kellogg.
2008
The Bill Martin Jr. big book of poetry
©2005.
A collection of poems that can be read or listened to with the accompanying CD. The poems on the CD are read by the poets themselves.
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Sourcebooks,
9781402203299
CD
Poetry speaks to children
First book / The quarrel / Letter to Bee / Hurt no living thing / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Wolf / The tiger who wore white gloves / "The adventures of Isabel" / On a flimmering floom you shall ride / El chicle / The dentist and the crocodile / Bear song / Jabberwocky / Sneeze / Mrs. Mitchell's underwear / Okay, brown girl, okay / Vowel owl (Roger) / Magic words / The unwritten / Crayons : a rainbow poem / Gas / Knitted things / Macbeth / Frodo's song in Bree / Eagle poem / The Negro speaks of rivers / I rise, I rise / "The elephant's child" / Alphabet, pt. 1 / John Smith and his son, John Smith / About the teeth of sharks / Dinosaur diets / My sister saw a dinosaur / Joey / Rabbit / At last / Epigram engraved on the collar of a dog which I gave to His Royal Highness / Balloons / Hide and seek
Every time I climb a tree / The reason I like chocolate / Trips / Mommies / Lineage / Snowmen / Good luck gold / The secret song / Why? / The question / First grade / Crying / Art class / How to paint a donkey / Daddy fell into the pond / Working with mother / A faery song / The unicorn / The lion and the lily / hist whist / The ghost and Jenny Jemima / "The raven" / Edgar Allan Poe -- Sheep party / Jamacian song / Halfway down / Count to ten and we'll be there / opposite poem 4 / opposite poems 7 and 20 / "The tale of Custard the Dragon" / Good hot dogs / Lies, all lies / Which is the best? / Casey at the bat / The testing tree, pt. 1 / Skating in the wind / A poem for Jesse / To P.J. / Valentine / Summer / Winter / The sun has a tail / Knoxville, Tennessee / I am cherry alive / The tyger / Conversation with a mouse / On turning ten / How to stay up late / Flashlight / Maturity / Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Little / Two in bed / Brother / The land of counterpane / "The bed book" / The coming of teddy bears
Paschen, Elise
Love, Judy, 1953-
Rasmussen, Wendy, 1952-
Wendland, Paula Zinngrabe.
Rita Dove -- Maxine Kumin -- Emily Dickinson -- Christina Rossetti -- Robert Frost -- Billy Collins -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ogden Nash -- Carl Sandburg -- Ana Castillo -- Roald Dahl -- Kay Ryan -- Lewis Carroll -- Maxine Kumin -- Dennis Lee -- James Berry -- John Hollander -- Anonymous Inuit Poet, Edward Field -- W.S. Merwin -- Jane Yolen -- C.K. Williams -- Karla Kuskin -- William Shakespeare -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Joy Harjo -- Langston Hughes -- Anonymous Osage poet -- Rudyard Kipling -- Seamus Heaney -- Wallace Stevens -- John Ciardi -- Jane Yolen -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- Brad Leithauser -- Mary Ann Hoberman -- James Stevenson -- Alexander Pope -- William Jay Smith -- Robert Graves.
David McCord -- Nikki Giovanni -- Nikki Giovanni -- Nikki Giovanni -- Margaret Walker -- Agha Shahid Ali -- Janet S. Wong -- Margaret Wise Brown -- James Stevenson -- Karla Kuskin -- William Stafford -- Galway Kinnell -- X.J. Kennedy -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Alfred Noyes -- Myra Cohn Livingston -- W.B. Yeats -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Muldoon -- Elizabeth Spires -- E.E. Cummings -- Dennis Lee -- John Fuller -- James Berry -- A.A. Milne -- Rita Dove -- Richard Wilbur -- Richard Wilbur -- Ogden Nash -- Sandra Cisneros -- William Cole -- James Stevenson -- Ernest L. Thayer -- Stanley Kunitz -- Kristine O'Connell George -- Sonia Sanchez -- Sonia Sanchez -- Donald Hall -- W.D. Snodgrass -- W.D. Snodgrass -- Emanuel di Pasquale -- Nikki Giovanni -- Delmore Schwartz -- William Blake -- Robert Bly -- Billy Collins -- X.J. Kennedy -- X.J. Kennedy -- X.J. Kennedy -- Eugene Field -- Dorothy Aldis -- Abram Bunn Ross -- Mary Ann Hoberman --- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sylvia Plath -- Dennis Lee.
editor, Elise Paschen ; illustrators, Judy Love, Wendy Rasmussen, Paula Zinngrabe Wendland ; advisory editors, Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, X.J. Kennedy.
2005
Poetry speaks to children
c2013.
1st ed.
For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite po
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Disney/Hyperion Books,
9781423108054
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Poems to learn by heart
The first book / Here I am, and other poems about the self: from The world is round / I am cherry alive / My shadow / Crying / O dear! How disgusting is life! / Bad morning / Ode to Pablo's tennis shoes / Don't worry if your job is small / It couldn't be done / Personal / A man said / Sonnet 94 / Dust of snow / If-- / from A drama of exile / Between what I see and what I say-- / Micah 6:8 --
I dreamed I had to pick a mother out, and other poems about family: Disobedience / Brother / Brother and sister / If Little Red Riding Hood-- / Andre / The parent / Bilingual/bilingüe / Ballad of Birmingham / Manners
I'm expecting you! and other poems about friendship and love: Bee! I'm expecting you! / Vade mecum / Evil / A poison tree / Tableau / Voices rising / He wishes for the cloths of heaven / The dream keeper / A blessing / Invitation to love / 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 / For Katrina's sun-dial / Liberty
I met a little elf-man, once, and other poems about fairies, ogres, and witches: The little elf / The fairies / I'd love to be a fairy's child / Some one / Under the bed / What's that? / from The masque of queens / Song of the ogres / The splendour falls on castle walls
Where can a man buy a cap for his knee? and other nonsensical poems: Foolish questions / Way down South / There was an old man in a garden / There was an old person whose habits / Baby ate a microchip / from Through the looking-glass / Herbert Glerbett / The toys talk of the world / All about boys and girls / Some worlds inside of words / The tale of custard the dragon
It is the duty of the student, and other poems about school: Duty of the student / Gnome / Sick / Homework / Lucky trade / Bubble troubles / How to paint a donkey / The lesson / Theme for English B / if everything happens that can't be done
We dance round in a ring and suppose, and other poems about sports and games: The secret sits / Hide-and-seek, 1933 / Block city / The girls in the circle / We real cool / Slam, dunk, & hook / Defender / Zuri at bat / Casey at the bat / Casey's revenge / May
Four score and seven years ago, and other poems about war: Will, lost in a sea of trouble / The destruction of Sennacherib / Ozymandias / from Henry V, IV, iii, 56-67 / Shiloh / Gettysburg Address / Charge of the light brigade / Ukase / When he was small, when he would fall / The unknown soldier / First they came for the Jews / from "Voice from Lemnos" / Peace
The world is so full of a number of things, and other poems about nature: from "Auguries of innocence" / Happy thought / What are heavy? / Devotion / Will there really be a "morning"? / Ballad of the morning streets / who are you, little i / In beauty may I walk / Tommy / from As You Like It, II, v, 5-12: 18-25 / Anecdote of the jar / The snow man / Winter trees / from The metamorphoses, Book I / The world / from The Canterbury tales, general prologue / Young Lochinvar / The cremation of Sam McGee / Paul Revere's ride / Kubla Khan / Catch a little rhyme
Kennedy, Caroline.
Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
by Caroline Kennedy -- Rita Dove -- Gertrude Stein ; Delmore Schwartz ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Galway Kinnell ; Edward Lear ; Langston Hughes ; Gary Soto ; anonymous ; Edgar Albert Guest ; Langston Hughes ; Stephen Crane ; William Shakespeare ; Robert Frost ; Rudyard Kipling ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Octavio Paz ;
A.A. Milne ; Mary Ann Hoberman ; Lewis Carroll ; Jeff Moss ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Ogden Nash ; Rhina P. Espaillat ; Dudley Randall ; Elizabeth Bishop --
Emily Dickinson ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; William Blake ; Countee Cullen ; DreamYard Prep Slam Team ; William Butler Yeats ; Langston Hughes ; James Wright ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Saint Paul ; Henry van Dyke ; Janet S. Wong --
John Kendrick Bangs ; Rose Fyleman ; Robert Graves ; Walter de la Mare ; Penny Trzynka ; Florence Parry Heide ; Ben Jonson ; W.H. Auden ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
American folk rhyme ; anonymous ; Edward Lear ; Edward Lear ; Neal Levin ; Lewis Carroll ; Jack Prelutsky ; Katharine Pyle ; John Ciardi ; Richard Wilbur ; Ogden Nash --
Edward Anthony ; Samuel Beckett ; Shel Silverstein ; Jane Yolen ; Matthew M. Fredericks ; Janet S. Wong ; Naomi Shihab Nye ; Billy Collins ; Langston Hughes ; E.E. Cummings --
Robert Frost ; Galway Kinnell ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Nikki Giovanni ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Yusef Komunyakaa ; Linda Sue Park ; Nikki Grimes ; Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; Grantland Rice ; John Updike --
Archilochos ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; William Shakespeare ; Herman Melville ; Abraham Lincoln ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Pfc. C.G. Tiggas ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Billy Rose ; Martin Niemöller ; Seamus Heaney ; Gerard Manley Hopkins --
William Blake ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Christina Rossetti ; Robert Frost ; Emily Dickinson ; Amiri Baraka ; E.E. Cummings ; from the Navajo ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; William Shakespeare ; Wallace Stevens ; Wallace Stevens ; William Carlos Williams ; Ovid ; William Brighty Rands -- Geoffrey Chaucer ; Sir Walter Scott ; Robert Service ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Eve Merriam.
Caroline Kennedy ; paintings by Jon J Muth.
2013
Poems to learn by heart
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