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Poetry Titles

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A is for Amazing Moments: a sports alphabet by Brad Herzog and Melanie Rose, ill. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2008. 

Amiri and Odette: a love story by Walter Dean Myers and Javaka Steptoe, ill. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009

Animal Poems by Valerie Worth and Steve Jenkins, ill. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007.

Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess. ill. New York: Harper Collins, 2009.

Blue Lipstick: concrete poems by John Grandits. New York: Clarion, 2007.

Blues Journey by Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, ill. New York: Holiday House, 2003.

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema and Beatriz Vidal, ill. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1981.

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer and Joe Morse, ill. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press, 2006.

City I Love  by Lee Bennett Hopkins, ill. Marcellus Hall. Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2009. Coretta by Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson, Ill.  New York: Amistad, 2009.

Cuckoo's Haiku, The: and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen and Stan Fellows, ill. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2009.

Dream   by Susan Bosak and 15 internationally acclaimed artists. Canada: TCP Press, 2004.

Diego: bigger than life by Carmen Bernier-Grand and David Diaz, ill. Tarrrytown, NY: Marshall Cavandish, 2009. 

Dizzy by Jonah Winter and Sean Qualls, ill. New York: Scholastic, 2008.

 Elegy on the Death of Cesar Chavez by Rudolfo Anaya and Gaspar Enriquez, ill. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2000.

Eleventh Hour, The: a curious mystery by Graeme Base. New York: Abrams, 1989.

Extra innings: baseball poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins, ed. and Scott Medlock, ill. San Diego: Harcourt, 1993.

Food Hates You Too: and other poems by Robert Weinstock. New York: Hyperion, 2009.

Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex.  Orlando, FL:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2008.

Frida: Long Live Life! by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand.New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2007.

Foot in the Mouth, A: poems to speak, sing, and shout by Paul B. Janeczko, ed. and Chris Raschka, ill. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2009.

God bless the gargoyles by Dav Pilkey. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1996.

Good Sports: rhymes about running, jumping, throwing and more by Jack Prelutsky and Chris Raschka, ill. New York: Knopf, 2007.

Harvesting Hope: the story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull and Yuyi Morales, ill. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 2003.

Highwayman, The by Alfred Noyes and Murray Kimber, ill. New York: Kids Can Press, 2005.

Hoops by Robert Burleigh and Stephen T. Johnson, ill. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1997.

House that crack built, The by Clark Taylor and Jan Thompson Dicks, ill. San Francisco:  Chronicle Books, 1992.

Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art by Jan Greenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

I and I by Tony Medina and Jesse Joshua Watson, ill. Lee & Lowe Books Inc., New York, 2009.

I See the Rhythm by Toyomi Igus and Michele Wood, ill. San Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press, 1998.

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll and Christopher Myers, ill. New York: Jump at the Sun, 2007.

Jazz A-B-Z by Wynton Marsalis and Paul Rogers, ill. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.

Jazz on a Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon. New York: Blue Sky Press, 2007.

Keeping the night watch by Hope Anita Smith, E.B. Lewis, ill. NY: Henry Holt Comp, 2008.

Kick in the Head, A by Paul Janeczko and Chris Raschka, ill. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.

Lady Liberty: A biography by Doreen Rappaport and Matt Tavares, ill. Massachusetts: Candlewick, 2008.

Lewis Carroll: poetry for young people by Edward Mendelson, ed. and Eric Copeland, ill. New York: Sterling, 2000.

Light in the attic, A by Shel Silverstein. New York: HarperCollins, 1981.

Lucky Thing, A by Alice Schertle and Wendell Minor, ill. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, 1999.

M is for majestic: a national parks alphabet by David Domeniconi and Pam Carroll, ill. Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2003.

Manfish: a story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennier Berne and Eric Puybaret, ill. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008

Missouri Boy by Leland Myrick. New York: First Second, 2006.

Moon over Star, The by Dianna Hutts Aston and Jerry Pinkney, ill. New York: Dial, 2008.

Negro Speaks of Rivers, The by Langston Hughes and E. B. Lewis, ill.  NY:  Disney-Jump at the Sun Books, 2009. 

Once Upon a Tomb: gravely humorous verses by J. Patrick Lewis, ill. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006.

One special summer by Jacqueline and Lee Bouvier.  New York:  Rizzoli International Publications, 2006.

Poke in the i, A:  a collection of concrete poems, selectionby Paul B. Janeczko and Chris Raschka, ill.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2007.

Popcorn Poems by James Stevenson.  New York:  Greenwillow Books, 1998.

Randolph Caldecotts picture books by Randolph Caldecott.  San Marino, CA:  Huntington Library, 2008.

Red sings from treetops: a year in colorsby Joyce Sidman and Pamela Zagarenski, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2009.

Rimshots: basketball pix, rolls, and rhythms by Charles R. Smith Jr. New York: Puffin, 2000.

River of Words, A by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet, ill.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Science Verse by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, ill. New York: Viking, 2004.

Spider and the Fly, The by Mary Botham Howitt and Tony DeTerlizzi, ill. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2002.

Swamps of Sleethe, The by Jack Prelutsky and Jimmy Pickering, ill. New York: Alfred A. Kopf, 2009.

Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the color brown  Poems about the color brown, by Malathi Michelle Iyengar, ill. Jamel Akib. Children's Book Press, San Francisco, 2009. 978-0-89239-227-8

Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. Arthur A Levine Books, 2008. 978-0-545-05587

To Go Singing Through the World by Deborah Kogan Ray.  New York:  Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey. New York: Puffin Books, 1957.

Visiting Langston by Willie Perdomo and Bryan Collier, ill. New York: Holt, 2005.

Voice from Afar: poems of peace by Tony Johnston and Susan Guevara, ill. New York: Holiday House, 2008.

Wabi sabi by Mark Reibstein and Ed Young, ill. New York: Little Brown, 2008.

Walt Whitman: words for America by Barbara Kerley and Brian Selznick, ill. New York: Scholastic Press, 2004.

Water Music: poems for children by Jane Yolen and Jason Stemple, ill. Homesdale, PA: Wordsong, 2004.

West is Calling, The: imagining British Columbia by Sarah N. Harvey, Leslie Buffam, and Dianna Bonder, ill.

Why War is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker and Stefano Vitale, ill. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Worlds Greatest Poems, The by J. Patrick Lewis and Keith Graves, ill. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008.

Wreath for Emmett Till, A by Marilyn Nelson and Philippe Lardy, ill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2005.

Yay, You! Moving Out, Moving Up, Moving On! by Sandra Boynton. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

 

 

 

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