April 22 is Earth Day

April is Poetry Month

Here are a few books of poems to celebrate Spring's arrival and April Foolery.

Something Big's CoverPaul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1963
The story of Patriots Day and the famous April ride from Boston to Lexington and Concord.

Something BIG Has Been Here by Jack Prelutsky drawings by James Stevenson, Greenwillow Books, New York, 1990
A bunch of very funny poems.

At the Crack of the Bat:Baseball Poems by Lillian Morrison, Hyperion Books for Children, New York, 1992
Poems about baseball.

Oh,such foolishness!:Poems selected by William Cole, pictures by Tomie de Paola, Lippincott, Philadelphia,1978.
A collection of humorous and nonsense poems by English and American poets.

The Birds and the Beasts Were There selected by William Cole, The World Publishing Co., New York, 1963
A collection of poems about Animals by a variety of poets.

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, 1966
Classic children's poetry from 1855.

When We Were Very Young by A.A.Milne, E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1924
First poems about Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

A Grass Green Gallop Poems by Patricia Hubbell, illustrated by Ronald Himler, Atheneum, New York, 1990
Poems about horses.Falling Up's Cover

Falling UP Poems & drawings by Shel Silverstein, HarperCollins, New York, 1996
Another book of poems about weird and funny people and things like Allison Beals and her 25 eels.

Poetry from Diverse Cultures

On our way:Poems of Pride & Love selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Knopf, New York, 1974
A collection of poems by African-American poets.

Honey, I Love and other love poems by Eloise Greenfield, HarperFestival,1995.
Poems about African-American children for reading aloud.

In a Spring Garden edited by Richard Lewis, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, Dial Press, New York, 1965
A collection of Japanese Haiku.

A Grass Green Gallop's CoverHaiku:The Mood of Earth Ann Atwood,Scribner, New York,1971
A collection of Japanese Haiku illustrated with color photographs of nature.

Our Fathers Had Powerful Songs Natalia Belting, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1974
Poetry of the North American Indians.

The trees stand shining; poetry of the North American Indians., Hettie Jones, Paintings by Robert Andrew Parker. Dial Press, New York, 1971
Thirty-two poems from the oral tradition of fifteen North American tribes.

Maples in the Mist translated by Minfong Ho, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, New York,1996
A collection of Chinese childrens poems written over 1000 years ago during the the Tang Dynasty, 618-907 A.D.


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