National Geographic book of animal poetry : 200 poems that squeak, soar, and roar : with favorites from Robert Frost, Jack Prelutsky, Emily Dickinson, and more

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Welcome to the world -- The big ones -- The little ones -- The winged ones -- The water ones -- The strange ones -- The noisy ones -- The quiet ones -- Final thought -- Writing poems about animals.

Welcome to the world. The egg / by Jack Prelutsky -- The tickle rhyme / by Ian Serraillier -- What's a caterpillar? / by Graham Denton -- Cocoon / by David McCord -- Haiku / by Joan Bransfield Graham --

The big ones. Buffalo dusk / by Carl Sandburg -- Wedding bears / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The purple cow / by Gelett Burgess -- Cow / by Valerie Worth -- A farmer's boy / by anonymous -- The cow / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- The pasture / by Robert Frost -- Dear orangutan / by David Elliott -- Moose / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Song of a bear : a Navajo poem -- Grandpa bear's lullaby / by Jane Yolen -- Elephant / by anonymous -- Eletelephony / by Laura E. Richards -- Elephant / by Ann Whitford Paul -- Anthology / by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer -- The whales off Wales / by X.J. Kennedy -- Polar bear rap / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Polar bear / by Leland Blair Jacobs -- Moody guy / by Avis Harley -- The white rhinoceros / by Stephen Mitchell -- Tiger / by anonymous -- Giraffe / by Valerie Worth -- Above all / by Avis Harley -- The hippopotamus / by Hilaire Belloc -- The horses / by Maxine Kumin -- The horseman / by Walter de la Mare -- Horses / by Aileen Fisher -- The white horse / by D.H. Lawrence -- Mountain gorilla / by Janet S. Wong --

The little ones. Ladybug / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Ants / by Marilyn Singer -- Solitude / by Charles Simic -- Dragonfly / by Georgia Heard -- Grasshoppers three : an old song -- Little fish / by D.H. Lawrence -- The caterpillar / by Douglas Florian -- Caterpillar / by Tony Johnston -- The butterfly / by John Fuller -- Butterfly / by Benjamin Franklin -- Cockroach sandwich / by Colin McNaughton -- The scorpion / by Hilaire Belloc -- Inchworm / by Michael J. Rosen -- Inch by inch / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Rich lizard / by Deborah Chandra -- The chipmunk / by Ogden Nash -- Spruce woods / by A.R. Ammons -- Squirrel forgets / by Lilian Moore -- Polliwogs / by Kristine O'Connell George -- Oh the toe-test! / by Norma Farber -- The spider is a lovely lady / by Frank Asch -- I am a snail / by anonymous -- From the snail / by William Cowper -- Riddle / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Snail / by X.J. Kennedy -- Bee / by X.J. Kennedy -- The pedigree of honey / by Emily Dickinson -- Move over / by Lilian Moore -- A bee / by Matsuo Basho; translated by Robert Hass -- A mouse of my acquaintance / by anonymous -- The city mouse and the garden mouse / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Hamster hide-and-seek / by Avis Harley --

The winged ones. Three little owls who sang hymns / by anonymous -- A wise old owl : a nursery rhyme -- Haiku / by anonymous -- I talk with the moon / by Beverly McLoughland -- Gray Goose / by Julie Larrios -- Moon geese / by Ann Turner -- What was that? / by David L. Harrison -- De grey goose / by Huddie Ledbetter -- Puzzling / by William Cole -- Blue jay / by Janet S. Wong -- The blackbird / by Humbert Wolfe -- Dust of snow / by Robert Frost -- The eagle / by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Mother's plea / by Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Coastal bats / by Calef Brown -- A warbler / by Walter de la Mare -- The saddest noise / by Emily Dickinson -- Birds in the garden / by anonymous -- From sing-song / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Inuit song / translated by Edward Field, after Nakasuk -- Haiku / by anonymous -- Visitor / by Kristine O'Connell George -- You can talk about your hummingbirds / by Arnold Adoff -- Hummingbird / by Janet S. Wong -- Haiku / by J.W. Hackett -- Arrivals / by Ann Turner -- The white egret / by Paul Janeczko -- The parrot / by anonymous --

The water ones. The penguin / by Oliver Herford -- Penguins / by Charles Ghigna -- Lost in the cold / by anonymous -- Anemone / by Jane Yolen -- The starfish / by David McCord -- Seal / by William Jay Smith -- The performing seal / by Rachel Field -- Seal lullaby / by Rudyard Kipling -- The walrus / by Jack Prelutsky -- The eel / by Ogden Nash -- Beavers in November / by Marilyn Singer -- There was an old person of Hyde / by Edward Lear -- Young Prince Pinch / by Avis Harley -- The crab / by Conrad Aiken -- Happy the ocean / by anonymous -- Sea turtle / by anonymous -- Turtles / by Charles Ghigna -- The shark / by Lord Alfred Douglas -- About the teeth of sharks / John Ciardi -- Sea jelly / by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman -- Do oysters sneeze? / by Jack Prelutsky -- Mussel / by Steven Withrow -- Don't call alligator long-mouth till you cross river / by John Agard -- The crocodile / by Lewis Carroll -- Dark meat / by anonymous --

The strange ones. Moray eel / by Steven Withrow -- All you oughta know about a piranha / by Michael J. Rosen -- The ostrich / by Ogden Nash -- The ostrich is a silly bird / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- I am a baby porcupette / by Joyce Sidman -- Porcupine / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- The octopus / by Ogden Nash -- Seahorse / by Blake Morrison -- What is the opposite of pillow? / by Richard Wilbur -- The argument / by Bobbi Katz -- The anteater / by Douglas Florian -- Travel plans / by Bobbi Katz -- The meerkats of Africa / by Gavin Ewart -- Sand ghost / by Betsy Franco -- Frilled lizard / by Alice Schertle -- The yak / by Hilaire Belloc -- How to tell a camel / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Skunk / by Lilian Moore -- A flamingo is / by J. Patrick Lewis -- A blue-footed booby / by Michael J. Rosen -- Spoonbill haiku / by Jane Yolen -- How to paint a zebra / by anonymous -- Zebra / by Gavin Ewart -- Zebra / by Judith Thurman -- A promise / by Bobbi Katz -- A centipede was happy quite / by anonymous -- Vanishing act / by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer -- Proboscis monkey ponders man / by Alice Schertle --

The noisy ones. The frog / by Hilaire Belloc -- The bull / by Alice Schertle -- Bull and ox / by anonymous -- Crickets / by Myra Cohn Livingston -- Splinter / by Carl Sandburg -- Crickets / by Harry Behn -- Why pigs cannot write poems / by John Ciardi -- Pig / by Richard Edwards -- Piety / by Ambrose Bierce -- Summertime / by Myra Cohn Livingston -- Unpopular Rex / by X.J. Kennedy -- Dog / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- The breed you need / by Bobbi Katz -- The greater cats / by V. Sackville-West -- You've got male / by Avis Harley -- Lion / by Janet S. Wong -- A picture of the rooster / by Tang Yin -- Raccoon / by Janet S. Wong -- From road-song of the bandar-log / by Rudyard Kipling -- From the law of the jungle / by Rudyard Kipling -- Why wolves howl / by anonymous -- Jack A / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The donkey : a nursery rhyme -- Visiting an old friend / by Charles Waters --

The quiet ones. Rabbit / by Mary Ann Hoberman -- Four ducks on a pond / by William Allingham -- Firefly / by Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Luna moth / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The warning / by Adelaide Crapsey -- Home to roost / by Kay Ryan -- The hens / by Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Haiku / by Kristine O'Connell George -- Cat in the snow / by Aileen Fisher -- Fog / by Carl Sandburg -- Haiku / by Avis Harley -- Two cats / by anonymous -- Sunning / by James S. Tippett -- Pet snake / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Dressing like a snake / by Georgia Heard -- Snake / by Barbara Juster Esbensen -- The panther / by Ogden Nash -- Coyote landscape / by Jane Yolen -- I saw a sloth play soccer / by Kenn Nesbitt --

Final thoughts. Animals / by Walt Whitman -- Hurt no living thing / by Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Magic words : an Inuit poem / translated by Edward Field -- Make the earth your companion / by J. Patrick Lewis -- Writing poems about animals.

The arrow finds its mark : a book of found poems

Find a poem / Marilynn's Montessori memo / School poems / A poem to sneak onto the wall of a school lunchroom / It's pink Friday / Texto / Pep talk / First wins / The hardware store / Battling beams / Ask a train operator / Nicknames in the NBA / Trickery / Empty promises / How to write a poem on your computer / Cross words / Today's thought problem / Thinking about light with the dictionary open / Breaking, from Norway / Book haunting / Artist's advice / Places I'd love to Van Gogh someday / We see with these / Walden pond / Lake Haiku / Song of the earth / Just listen to the elders / Land of nothing / Lawn talk / A bird poetry reading / Hummingbird / In the nest / Geese at night / Weekday morning haiku / Hot-dogging / Man's best friend / They don't want speeding tickets, so... / Year of the tiger / Top ten rules for our zoo field trip / The end and goodbye

The Random House book of poetry for children

Book of poetry for children

Introduction -- Nature Is : -- Auguries of innocence / All things bright and beautiful / I'm glad the sky is painted blue / Universe / Measurement / On the Bridge / Flint / Wolf Cry / Secret song / Last rites / Trees / Crocus / Dandelion / Ferns / Birch trees / Wind-wolves / Wind / Mountain wind / Windy nights / Who has seen the wind? / Mountain brook / River winding / Water's edge / Mud / Muddy puddle / Sea shell / Sea / Until I saw the sea / Rain has silver sandals / Rain clouds / To walk in warm rain / Rhyme / More it snows / First snow / When all the world is full of snow / Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Snowflake / Check / Moon's the north wind's cooky / Star / Night comes / Night / Silver / Night is a big black cat / Four Seasons : -- Months / Four seasons / January / Martin Luther King / Lincoln / Ground hog day / Beyond winter / Valentine / Ice / Washington / Smells / February twilight / Paper dragons / Maple feast / When / Daylight saving time / March / March wind / Wearing of the green / Spring rain / Ode to spring / Easter / Spring is / On mother's day / Spring / Good-by my winter suit / Moment in summer / Rocket in my pocket / Maytime magic / Summer / Joyful / October / October / August / Harvest home / This is Halloween / Lazy witch / Thanksgiving magic / 12 October / Thanksgiving / Thanksgiving day / Light the festive candles / Children's Carol / Winter moon / I heard a bird sing / Merry Christmas / From : a Christmas package / Visit from St Nicholas / Dogs And Cats And Bears And Bats : -- Waltzer in the house / Mice / Chipmunk's song / To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / Rabbit / Hedgehog / Bat / Bat / Sloth / Camel / Camel's complaint / Buffalo dusk / Hippopotamus / Holding hands / Oliphaunt / Wolf / Beside the line of elephants / Four little foxes / Grandpa bear's lullaby / Lesser lynx / Polar bear / Lion / Lion / Leopard / Seal / Performing seal / Donkey / Wild, the free / Mandrill / Ode to the pig : his tail / Pig /Roland Young -- Hairy dog / Pig is never blamed / Cow / Roger the dog / Lone dog / Sunning / Bliss / I've got a dog / His highness's dog / Cat of cats / Cat in despondency / Cats of kilkenny / Country barnyard / Cats / Cat / Little things / Feather or fur / Cat's menu / Ways Of Living Things : -- Hey, Bug! / Hurt no living thing / Green stems / Bug sat in a silver flower / Crickets / Praying mantis / Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Wasps / Flea / Bug in a jug / Bug / Oh the toe-test! / When mosquitoes make a meal / Cockroaches / Dragonfly / Fireflies in the garden / Caterpillar / Tickle rhyme / Ladybug / Codfish / Wee little worm / Flattered flying fish / Long gone / Shark / Fishes' evening song / Sally and Manda / Lizard / Boa / Brontosaurus / Desert tortoise / Frog / Crocodile / Samuel / Tree frog / Hummingbird / Polliwog / Baby talk / Canary / Ducks' ditty / Duck / Blackbird / Sea gull / Sandpiper / Sandpiper / Something told the wild geese / Hen / Night heron / Vulture / Sparrow hawk / Eagle / City, Oh City!: -- Just for one day / Riveter / Gift with the wrappings off / City, city / Sing a song of subways / Things to do if you are a subway / Flowers are a silly bunch / Rudolph is tired of the city / That May morning / Umbilical / Sunrise / People / People upstairs / Zebra / Crowds / Concrete mixers / They've all gone south / Pigeons / Sing a song of people / Stickball / Sad song about Greenwich village / Fog / Alley cat school / Open hydrant / April rain song / City lights / Rainy nights / City / Frightening / Where are you now? / Foghorns / City dump / Cockpit in the clouds

Children, Children Everywhere : -- Hug o' war / Advice to small children / Joke / Changing / Somebody / I saw a little girl I hate / Huckleberry, gooseberry, raspberry / Love / I love you / Question / I hate Harry / Puzzle / John, Tom, and James / Double-barreled ding-dong-bat / Yip-yap rattletrap / Tag along / Ten kinds / There was a little girl / Two people / Read this with gestures / Table manners / Jack / Bubble gum / Did you? / Why run? / Story of Augustus who would not have any soup / Eat-it-all Elaine / Tired Tim / Wendy in winter / Tony baloney / Fernando / Queenie / Jessica Jane / Follow the leader / Freddy / Girls can, too! / No girls allowed / Little Clotilda / We're racing, racing down the walk / Maggie and Milly and Molly and May / Wrestling / Measles / Barbershop / Wiggly giggles / Since Hanna moved away / Lullaby / What in the world? / Me I Am!: -- My name is / Me / My father owns the butcher shop / I am Rose / Me / Every time I climb a tree / Reason I like chocolate / Mark's fingers / When I was lost / Keziah / Just me / How to get there / Wolf / Dust of snow / Sulk / If no one ever marries me / Broom balancing / About feet / On the skateboard / I can fly / Basketball / Basketball star / Song / Growing up / Marrog / Everybody says / Stupid old myself / Don't tell me that I talk too much! / Surprises / If we didn't have birthdays / History / I am cherry alive / I'm really not lazy / Winter clothes / I'm nobody! who are you? / Yawning / Rhinos purple, hippos green / One day when we went walking / Home! You're Where It's Warm Inside : -- Wrong start / Mother's nerves / John / Waking / Mother doesn't want a dog / Amelia mixed the mustard / I wish I could meet the man that knows / Some things don't make any sense at all / First tooth / Bringing up babies / Six weeks old / Help! / Lil' bro' / My brother / Leave me alone / Myra song / Let other share / In the motel / Rules / Runaway / Soap / What someone said when he was spanked on the day day before his birthday / They're calling / Going up / Up in the pine / Homework / Homework / Hot line / I'm alone in the evening / Winning of the TV west / Middle of the night / Our house / Two people / I'm Hungry!: -- My mouth / This is just to say / Tomorrow's the fair / Turtle soup / Oodles of noodles / Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / Egg thoughts / Pie problem / Meg's Egg / Celery / Taste of purple / Chocolate cake / Patience / My little sister / Little bits of soft-boiled egg / Chocolate, chocolate / Thousand hairy savages / I eat my peas with honey / Accidentally / I raised a great hullabaloo / Twickham tweer / Worm / Pizza / Soliloquy of a tortoise / Mr Pratt / Sneaky Bill / Some People I Know : -- Some people / People / Routine / Daddy fell into the pond / Smart / One misty, moisty morning / Thoughts on talkers / My brother Bert / Grandpapa / Growing old / Grandpa dropped his glasses / Manners / Uncle / Miss Norma Jean Pugh / Godmother / Too many dayes / Little boy and the old man / Tombstone / Air traveler / House-for sale / Jittery Jim / On a bad singer / Doctor Emmanuel / Hog-calling competition / Old Quin queeribus / There was on old man with a beard / Jonathan Bing / Poor old lady / Fatty, fatty, boom-a-latty / Solomon Grundy / Mr Kartoffel / Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Sugar lady / Lord Cray / Together / Opposite of two / Sir Smasham uppe / Nonsense! Nonsense!: -- Jabberwocky / Toot! toot! / Higglety, pigglety, pop! / On the ning nang nong / Common cormorant / McIntosh apple / Lobsters and the fiddler crab / Butterfly's ball / Contrary waiter / Whoops! / Way down south / Duel / Owl and the pussy-cat / Hare and the pig / Alligator / Lizard / Serpent / Shark / I had a little pig / Ants at the Olympics / Animal fair / Purple cow / I asked my mother / Algy met a bear / Walrus / Adventures of Isabel / Alligator pie / Beela by the sea / You must never bath in the Irish stew / Did you ever go fishing? / Sensitive, seldom and sad / Josephine / Folk who live in backward town / Father William / Johnnie crack and flossie snail / Snail's dream / Twins / New vestments / Pumberly Pott's unpredictable niece / Don't worry if your job is small / Number nine, Penwiper mews / Tender-heartedness / Jimmy Jet and his TV set / Young lady of Lynn / Herbert Glerbett

Alphabet Stew : -- Fly and a flea in a flue / Cow / Tutor / Weather / Two witches / Antonio / Habits of the hippopotamus / Bluffalo / Moses / Puffin / Eletelephony / Mr Bidery's spidery garden / Ptarmigan / Banananananananana / Clickbeetle / Sing me a song of teapots and trumpets / Modern Hiawatha / Misnomer / To be or not to be / Don't ever seize a weasel by the tail / Have you ever seen? / Waiters / Atrocious pun / Wild flowers / J's the jumping jay-walker / Poetry / Lumps / Word / Yak / Feelings about words / Where Goblins Dwell : -- Some one / Ghosts / Something is there / Horseman / Hist whist / What's that? / Green candles / Witch! the witch! / Song of the witches / Owl / Wanted-a witch's cat / Eight witches / Witches' menu / Queen Nefertiti / Colonel Fazackerley / Song of the ogres / Three ghostesses / Darkling elves / Elf and the dormouse / Bogeyman / Troll / Wendigo / Father and mother / Fairies / Great auk's ghost / Pumpkin / Seven ages of elf-hood / Unicorn / How to tell goblins from elves / Little man / Gumble / Slithegadee / Bogus-boo / Wrimples / Ms Whatchamacallit thingamajig / Spangled pandemonium / Creature in the classroom / Dinky / Plumpuppets / Could it have been a shadow? / Land Of Potpourri : -- Happy thought / Our washing machine / Introduction to songs of innocence / No holes marred / Steam shovel / Toaster / Tin frog / Driving to the beach / My nose / From : the bed book / Arithmetic / What is pink? / What is orange? / To be answered in our next issue / Base stealer / What is red? / Who's in / Library / Knockout / Foul shot / Yellow / Football game / Maps / If once you have slept on an island / Train song / Travel / Flight plan / To an aviator / Message from a mouse, ascending in a rocket / From a railway carriage / Toad / This little pig built a spaceship / Dreams / Far trek / How strange it is / Paint box / Keep a poem in your pocket / To dark eyes dreaming / Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- About the author/illustrator.

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