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Archive for the ‘Poetry’


Hey, You!: Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, And Other Fun Things

Offers early readers an interesting collection of poems about everything from maggots in apples to sky-high city skyscrapers from a diverse group of poets, enhanced with full-color illustrations.

Looking for Jaguar and Other Rain Forest Poems

Experience wild and endangered animals as they exist in their wild habitats in a dramatic collection of nineteen poems with full-color illustrations from the illustrator of Water Hole Waiting.

A Light in the Attic

A collection of poems and drawings features an assortment of characters, including Almost Perfect Mary Hume and The Turnable Twistable Man.

Handsprings: Poems & Paintings

Twenty-nine poems about Spring extol the many virtues of the season–from muddy puddles and emerging bulbs to rain showers, rainbows and that first day without mittens. By the author of Insectlopedia.

Insectlopedia

Presents twenty-one short poems about such insects as the inchworm, termite, cricket, and mayfly.