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.
