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Main Author or Editor
Anthology Title
Arnold Adoff I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Black Americans
Arnold Adoff Street Music: City Poems
Nils Bodecker "Let's Marry," Said the Cherry, and Other Nonsense Poems
Nils Bodecker Snowman Sniffles and Other Verse
Ruth Brown Ladybug, Ladybug
Kalli Dakos Don't Read This Book Whatever You Do!
Kalli Dakos If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Sing a Song of Popcorn
Sonja Dunn Crackers and Crumbs
Scott Elledge Wider Than the Sky: Poems to Grow Up With
Norma Farber How Does it Feel to be Old?
Helen Ferris Favorite Poems Old and New
Paul Fleischman Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices
Paul Fleischman Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
John Foster Dragons, Dinosaurs, and Monster Poems
Matthew Gollub Cool Melons - Turn to Frogs: The Life and Poems of Issa
Eloise Greenfield
Honey I Love and Other Poems
David L. Harrison Somebody Catch My Homework
Mary Ann Hoberman A House is a House for Me
Lee Bennet Hopkins Good Books, Good Times!
Lee Bennett Hopkins Side by Side: Poems to Read Together
Paul B. Janecho Stone Bench in an Empty Park
Hettie Jones The Trees Stand Shining: Poetry of the North American Indians
X.J. Kennedy and D.M. Kennedy Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry
X.J. Kennedy and D.M. Kennedy Talking Like the Rain
Nancy Larrick Let's Do a Poem!
Myra Cohn Livingston Cricket Never Does
Myra Cohn Livingston I Like You, If You Like Me, Poems of Friendship
Eve Merriam It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme
Eve Merriam Halloween ABC
Jeff Moss The Butterfly Jar
Jeff Moss The Other Side of the Door
Ogden Nash Ogden Nash's Zoo
Mary O'Neile Hailstones and Halibut Bones
Jack Prelutsky and Arnold Lobel The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Jack Prelutsky It's Raining Pigs and Noodles: Poems
Jack Prelutsky The New Kid on the Block
Jack Prelutsky Something Big Has Been Here
Shel Silverstein A Light in the Attic
Shel Silverstein Falling Up
Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends
D.S. Strickland and M.R. Strickland Families: Poems Celebrating the African American Experience
Judith Viorst If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries
Judith Viorst Sad Underwear ... and Other Complications
Jane Yolen Sky Scrape/City Scrape, Poems of City Life

 

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