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Title:
The Bill Martin Jr. big book of poetry
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Bill Martin Jr., with Michael Sampson ; foreword by Eric Carle ; afterword by Steven Kellogg.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers , 2008.
Physical Description:
175 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
ISBN:
9781416939719
General Note:
Includes indexes.
Abstract:
The definitive anthology of children's poetry with beautiful illustrations.
Reading Level:
Ages: 4-8.
Variant Title:
Portion of title: Big book of poetry
Contents:
The pasture / Robert Frost -- Animals: Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- Caterpillars / Aileen L. Fisher -- The wolf / Georgia Roberta Durston -- A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson -- Baby chick / Aileen L. Fisher -- A kitten / Eleanor Farjeon -- Crocodile / Anonymous -- Foxes / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The woodpecker / Elizabeth Maddox Roberts -- World of nature: Weather / Anonymous -- Clouds / Christina G. Rossetti -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina G. Rossetti -- The muddy puddle / Dennis Lee -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Spring rain / Marchette Chute -- The rainbow / Christina G. Rossetti -- What is pink? / Christina G. Rossetti -- Open house / Aileen L. Fisher -- The little rose tree / Rachel Field -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Metaphor / Eve Merriam -- Sleeping outdoors / Marchette Chute -- The star / Jane Taylor -- Until we built a cabin / Aileen L. Fisher -- Wise / Aileen L. Fisher -- Taking turns / Norma Farber -- To look at any thing / John Moffitt -- Hurt no living thing / Christina G. Rossetti -- Around the year: The months / Anonymous -- New Year's Day / Rachel Field -- To my Valentine / Anonymous -- March winds and April showers / Mother Goose -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Green grass & dandelions / Margaret Wise Brown -- Autumn / Emily Dickinson -- October / Robert Frost -- The last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost -- Thanksgiving day / L. Maria Child -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Happy Hanukkah! / Eva Grant -- Christmas song / Margaret Wise Brown -- People and places: City song / Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson -- Skyscraper / Dennis Lee -- Subways are people / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Climbing / Aileen L. Fisher -- In the woods / Margaret Wise Brown -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Child of the sun / Lillian M. Fisher -- Postman's song / Margaret Wise Brown -- The park / James S. Tippett -- So many nights / Margaret Wise Brown -- Manhattan lullaby / Rachel Field -- Once upon a time / Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson -- School time: First day of school / Aileen L. Fisher -- Pick me, please / Kalli Dakos -- SOS / Beverly McLoughland -- Take a number / Mary O'Neill -- I brought a worm / Kalli Dakos -- Ten little caterpillars / Bill Martin Jr. -- Word builder / Ann Whitford Paul -- Under the microscope / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Poor substitute / Kalli Dakos -- Me and my feelings: The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- I've got an itch / Jack Prelutsky -- Papa says / Libby Stopple -- This tooth / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Bursting / Dorothy Aldis -- My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- I am running in a circle / Jack Prelutsky -- Tiptoe / Karla Kushkin -- My dog / Marchette Chute -- Vacation / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Kick a little stone / Dorothy Aldis -- I keep three wishes ready / Annette Wynne -- The dark / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson -- If I were in charge of the world / Judith Viorst -- Painting the gate / May Swenson -- My star / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Dreamer / Langston Hughes -- Family and home: Grandpa's stories / Langston Hughes -- in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade -- Promises / David A. Anderson -- A social mixer / X. J. Kennedy -- My little sister / William Wise -- Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst -- I love you little / Anonymous -- Food for me: On eating porridge made of peas / Louis Phillips -- I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous -- Speak clearly / Martin Gardner -- Let there be pizza on earth / David Canzoneri and Bill Martin Jr. -- Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi -- Oodles of noodles / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr. -- Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky -- O sliver of liver / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Beans, b
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