For still more good poems for children see our Poetry Month page from last year too!
A Jar of Tiny Stars, Poems by NCTE Award-winning Poets Bernice E. Cullinan, Editor, illustrations by Andi MacLeod, & portraits by Marc Nadel, Wordsong, Boyds Mills Press, Honesdale, PA, 1996
Selections chosen by children as their favorites, from the works of ten poets who have won childrens poetry awards from the National Council of Teachers of English.
Emily Dickinson:Poetry for Young People,edited by Frances S. Bolin, illustrated by Chi Chung, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York,1994
An illustrated collection of 35 poems by Emily Dickinson, who lived from 1830 to 1886 and wrote in Amherst, Massachusetts about the things she saw and the things she imagined.
Sports!Sports!Sports!, A Poetry Collection, selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, pictures by Brian Floca, HarperCollins Publishers, New York,1999
Twenty illustrated easy to read poems about a variety of sports by thirteen different poets.
The Basket Counts by Arnold Adoff, illustrated by Michael Weaver, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, New York, 2000
An illustrated book of poems about basketball by Adoff, in which the shape of the poet's sentences on paper are also a part of the poem.
Salting the Ocean, 100 poems by Young Poets selected by Naomi Shihab Nye, pictures by Ashley Bryan, Greenwillow Books, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2000
Poems written by 100 different school children in grades one through 12 and selected over the last 25 year period by a poet who has led poetry workshops in many schools.
Mammalabilia, Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian, Harcourt, Inc., New York, 2000
Humorous poems about a assortment of mammals from Aardvarks to Zebras with striking watercolor illustrations by the poet.
Big Talk:Poems for Four Voices by Paul Fleischman, illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe, Candlewick Press, Cambridge, MA 2000
Three poems by a Newbery Medal winner that are specifically intended to be read aloud by four people at one time, in a poetic equivalent of close harmony or a string quartet.
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poetry for Young People, edited by Frances Schoonmaker, illustrated by Mike Bryce, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York,1995
A collection of poems by one of the most famous women poets (Pulitzer Prize 1923) of the first half of the 20th century.
Edgar Allen Poe: Poetry for Young People, edited by Brod Bagert, illustrated by Carolynn Cobleigh, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York,1995
Poems (and some prose selections too) ranging from spine tingling, eerie and sad to more upbeat ones on friendship and love by the famous nineteenth century writer.
Cool Melons-Turn to Frogs! The Life and Poems of Issa Story and Haiku Translations by Matthew Gollub, illustrated by Kazuko G. Stone, Lee & Low Books, Inc., New York, 1998
A collection of Japanese Haiku (short poems of exactly 17 syllables) written in the Japan of the late 1700's and early 1800's by Kobayashi Yataro, known as Issa, and often repeated to generations of Japanese children ever since, with a short biography of the poet.
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