100(+) Poetry Books for Kids (You Can Find The Full Post Here.)
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100(+) Poetry Books for Kids (You can find the full post here.) Anthologies ● Poetry Teatime Companion: A Brave Writer Sampler of British and American Poetry compiled by Julie Bogart and Nancy Graham ● Poems to Learn by Heart compiled by Caroline Kennedy ● Poetry Speaks to Children compiled by Elise Paschen ● Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies by Julie Andrews ● The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury compiled by Jack Prelutsky Poetry for the Sake of Poetry ● Poetry for Young People ○ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ○ Carl Sandburg ○ Edgar Allan Poe ○ Emily Dickinson ○ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ○ Langston Hughes ○ Lewis Carroll ○ Maya Angelou ○ Robert Frost ○ Robert Louis Stevenson ○ Rudyard Kipling ○ Walt Whitman ○ William Butler Yeats ○ William Shakespeare Funny ● Shel Silverstein Collections: ○ Where the Sidewalk Ends ○ A Light in the Attic ○ Falling Up ● Jack Prelutsky Collections ○ The New Kid on the Block ○ It's Raining Pigs and Noodles ○ Something Big Has Been Here ● Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant by Jack Prelutsky (also Scranimals and Stardines) © 2016 Homeschooling 1 hswotrainingwheels.com without Training Wheels Playing with Words ● Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer ○ Mirror, Mirror ○ Follow, Follow ○ Echo, Echo ● R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet by Judy Young ● Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word by Bob Raczka ● Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme compiled by Jack Prelutsky ● Poetry Adventures Series by Brian P. Cleary ○ Ode to a Commode: Concrete Poems ○ If It Rains Pancakes: Haiku and Lantern Poems ○ Something Sure Smells Around Here: Limericks ○ Bow-Tie Pasta: Acrostic Poems ○ I Saw an Invisible Lion Today: Quatrains ○ Underneath My Bed: List Poems Language ● Words are CATegorical by Brian P. Cleary ○ Parts of Speech ■ A Mink A Fink A Skating Rink: What is a Noun? ■ To Root To Toot To Parachute: What is a Verb? ■ Hairy Scary Ordinary: What is an Adjective? ■ Dearly Nearly Insincerely: What Is An Adverb? ■ I and You and Don't Forget Who: What Is A Pronoun? ■ Under Over By The Clover Book: What is a Preposition? ■ Cool! Woa! Ah! and Oh!: What is an Interjection? ■ But and For, Yet and Nor: What is a Conjunction? ○ Spelling ■ Pre- and Re-, Mis- and Dis-: What is a Prefix? ■ -Ful and -Less, -Er and Ness: What is a Suffix? ■ Feet and Puppies, Thieves and Guppies: What are Irregular Plurals? ■ I'm and Won't, They're and Don't: What's a Contraction? ○ Vocabulary ■ Pitch and Throw, Grasp and Know: What is a Synonym? ■ Stop And Go Yes And No: What Is An Antonym? ■ How Much Can A Bare Bear Bear: What are Homonyms and Homophones? ■ Thumbtacks, Earwax, Lipstick, Dipstick: What is a Compound Word? ■ Breezier, Cheesier, Newest, Bluest: What are Comparatives and Superlatives? ■ Madam and Nun and 1001: What is a Palindrome? © 2016 Homeschooling 2 hswotrainingwheels.com without Training Wheels ○ Writing ■ Chips and Cheese and Nana's Knees: What is Alliteration? ■ Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What are Similes and Metaphors? ● World of Language by Ruth ○ Kites Sail High: A Book about Verbs ○ Merry-Go-Round: A Book about Nouns ○ Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book about Adjectives ○ Up, Up, and Away: A Book about Adverbs ○ Behind the Mask: A Book about Prepositions ○ Mine, All Mine! A Book about Pronouns ○ Fantastic! Wow! and Unreal!: A Book about Interjections and Conjunctions ○ A Cache of Jewels and Other Collective Nouns Stories ● Dr. Seuss ○ If I Ran the Zoo ○ I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew ○ McElligot's Pool ○ Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now? ● Once Upon a Poem: Favorite Poems that Tell Stories compiled by Kevin Crossley-Holland Math ● City Lullaby by Marilyn Singer ● Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems by J. Patrick Lewis ● Mathematickles! by Betsy Franco ● Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature by Joyce Sidman ● Math is CATegorical series by Brian Cleary ○ The Mission of Addition ○ The Action of Subtraction ○ How Long or How Wide?: A Measuring Guide ○ On the Scale, a Weighty Tale ○ A Second, a Minute, a Week with Days in It ○ A Dollar, a Penny, How Much and How Many? ○ A Fraction's Goal - Parts of a Whole ○ A-B-A-B-A - A Book of Pattern Play ○ Windows, Rings, and Grapes - A Look at Different Shapes © 2016 Homeschooling 3 hswotrainingwheels.com without Training Wheels Transportation ● Digger, Dozer, Dumper by Hope Vestergaard ● Down to the Sea in Ships by Philemon Sturges ● Poem-Mobiles by J. Patrick Stewart and Douglas Florian Science ● Science Verse by Jon Scieszka ● Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up by Lisa Westberg Peters ● Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman ● Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian ● On the Same Day in March: A Tour of the World's Weather by Marilyn Singer Animals ● Today at the Bluebird Cafe: A Branchful of Birds by Deborah Ruddell ● The Cuckoo's Haiku and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen ● How to Hide series by Ruth Heller ○ How to Hide an Octopus and Other Sea Creatures ○ How to Hide a Butterfly and Other Insects ○ How to Hide a Crocodile and Other Reptiles ○ How to Hide a Meadow Frog and Other Amphibians ○ How to Hide a Polar Bear and Other Mammals ○ How to Hide a Parakeet and Other Birds ● Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian ○ mammalabilia ○ insectlopedia ○ lizards, frogs, and polliwogs ○ beast feast ○ on the wing ○ in the swim ○ dinothesarus History ● Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy ● Blackbeard the Pirate King by J. Patrick Lewis ● Rutherford B., Who Was He?: Poems About Our Presidents by Marilyn Singer Geography © 2016 Homeschooling 4 hswotrainingwheels.com without Training Wheels ● Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers as seen by Matt James ● Monday on the Mississippi by Marilyn Singer Art and Music ● Paint Me a Poem: Poems Inspired by Masterpieces of Art by Justine Rowden ● Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George ● Jazz by Walter Dean Myers Seasons and Celebrations ● A Child's Calendar by John Updike ● Julie Andrews' Treasury for all Seasons: Poems and Songs to Celebrate the Year selected by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton Sports ● Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Jack Norworth ● Casey Back at Bat by Dan Gutman © 2016 Homeschooling 5 hswotrainingwheels.com without Training Wheels .