Poetry

  • Poetry for Young People / Edgar Allen Poe.
    edited by Brod Bagert
    A collection of thirteen poems and eight prose selections from larger works.

  • Water Pennies and Other Poems.
    by N. M. Bodecker
    A collection of poems featuring such small creatures as the pollywog, snail, moth, and earthworm.

  • The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet.
    by Joseph Bruchac
    A collection of tales about the Big Dipper from various North American Indian cultures.

  • Zoomrimes: Poems About Things That Go.
    by Sylvia Cassedy
    Twenty-six poems, all of which describe a means of transportation or something that travels, ranging from "Ark" to "Zeppelin."

  • Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans.
    selected by Arlene B. Hirschfelder and Beverly R. Singer
    A collection of poems and essays in which young Native Americans speak of their identity, their families and communities, rituals, and the harsh realities of their lives.

  • My Song is Beautiful: Poems and Pictures in Many Voices.
    selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

  • The Highwayman.
    by Alfred Noyes
    Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.

  • Falling Up: Poems and Drawings.
    by Shel Silverstein
    A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

  • The Magic Wood.
    by Henry Treece
    A mysterious man befriends an unwitting visitor in a nighttime wood filled with hidden danger.

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