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Title:
The 20th century children's poetry treasury
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selected by Jack Prelutsky ; illustrated by Meilo So.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.
Physical Description:
87 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9780679893141

9780679993148
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
A collection of more than 200 poems by such modern poets as Nikki Grimes, John Ciardi, Karla Kuskin, Ted Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, Deborah Chandra, Arnold Adoff, and more than 100 others.
Reading Level:
NP Lexile
Variant Title:
Twentieth century children's poetry treasury
Contents:
Magic landscape / Joyce Carol Thomas -- Genius / Nikki Grimes -- Spells / Jane Yolen -- Magic / Shel Silverstein -- The sidewalk racer / Lillian Morrison -- Learning / Judith Viorst -- A circle of sun / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Running song / Marci Ridlon -- My name is... / Pauline Clarke -- Me / Karla Kuskin -- Mosquito / Valerie Worth -- Butterfly cloth / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Blue-butterfly day / Robert Frost -- Ants, although admirable, are awfully aggravating / Walter R Brooks -- Cricket / Debroah Chandra -- Beetles / Monica Shannon -- The centipede / Ogden Nash -- Doris skips / Leland B. Jacobs -- The gentle cow / Mary Morris Duane -- What is the opposite of hat? / Richard Wilbur -- The lizard / Theodore Roethke -- Tent / Deborah Chandra -- The crocodile / Michael Flanders -- At the bottom of the garden / Grace Nichols -- December leaves / Kay Starbird -- The snowflakes / Walter de la Mare -- The more it snows / A. A. Milne -- White cat winter / Tony Johnston -- Where are you now? / Henry Britton Miller -- The moon's the North Wind's cooky / Vachel Lindsay -- Fireflies / J. Patrick Lewis -- Summer stars / Carl Sandburg -- My window screen / X. J. Kennedy -- The noise of nothing / Norma Farber -- Night sounds / Felice Holman -- Sound / Anna Bird Stewart -- The nightmare gladiator / Richard Michelson -- Ears hear / Lucia M. and James L. Hymes Jr. -- Tuning up /. Felice Holman -- My violin / Bruce Lansky -- The girl who makes the cymbals bang / X. J. Kennedy -- Music class / Kristine O'Connell George -- The hawk / Douglas Florian -- Hawk in the tree / Constance Levy -- Wolf / Barbara Juser Eshensen -- Orang-utan / Juidth Nicholls -- For sale / Shel Silverstein -- Big sister / Mry Ann Hoberman -- Rules / Karla Kuskin -- Tickle tickle / Dakari Hru -- Breakfast / Jeff Moss -- Tutti frutti lovesong / Mary Grace Dembeck -- We're fearless flying hot dogs / Jack Prelutsky -- Spring / Karla Kuskin -- March / John Updike -- april is a dog's dream / Marilyn Siner -- That May morning / Leland B. Jacobs -- Balloons / Deborah Chandra -- Bubble / Deborah Chandra -- Jacks / Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Helicopters / Sylvia Cassidy -- Weather / Eve Merriam -- Rain sizes / John Ciardi -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Rain sound / Lillian Morrison -- Wind pictures / Mry O'Neill -- If only / Richard Edwards -- The dream keeper / Langston Hughes -- Oh, to be... / Richard Edwards -- I can fly / Felice Holman -- A hippopotamusn't / J. Patrick Lewis -- Frizzing / John Ciardi -- The sniffle / Ogden Nash -- The click clacker machine / Donna Lagg Pape -- Vrooms / Dr. Seuss -- Loose and limber / Arnold Lobel -- Stanley the fierce / Judith Viorst -- Tired Tim / Walter de la Mare -- The nest / Mary Ann Coleman -- Humming birds / Betty Sage -- Red-winged blackbird / Grace Tabe Hallock -- No shop does the bird use / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Woodpecker / Ted Hughes -- Monopoly / Alice Schertle -- Fog / Carl Sandberg -- Pigeons/ Eve Merriam -- Sidwalks / Patricia Hubbell -- Sick / Marci Riodlon -- Grounded / Florence Parry Heide -- My tooth ith loothe / George Ulrich -- Ears / Max Fatchen -- What someone said when he was spanked on the day before his birthday / John Ciardi -- I was walking in a circle / Jack Prelutsky -- The salmon / Douglas Florian -- Elevator / Sylvia Cassed -- Egg / Kristine O'Connell George -- Shakes and ladders / Max Fatchen -- Roplling down a hill / Colin West -- Flags / Ann Turner -- Afernoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- And my heart soars / Chief Dan George -- Thanksgiving / Ivy O. Eastwick -- Trees / Henry Behn -- Reading: summer / Myra Cohn Livingston -- June / John Updike -- Turtle in July / Marilyn Singer -- August / Sandra Olson Liatsos -- Flittermice / Patricia Hubbell -- All but blind / Walter de La Mare -- A bat is born / Randall Jarrell -- Mouse music / Dablov Ipear -- Our panther / Nancy Chambers -- The hunter / Ruth Tiller -- The old dog's song / leslie Norris -- Cats / Eleanor Farjeon -- Concerning love
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