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• How to Write a Poem

  Alexander, Kwame,

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  Combines playful text with inventive artwork to encourage readers to celebrate the magic of discovering their very own poetry in the world around them.

• Daniel Finds a Poem

  Archer, Micha,

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  A little boy's animal friends help him discover the poetry to be found in nature.

• I Love You Like Yellow

  Beaty, Andrea

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  From walking through rain to playing pirates with swords, parents list ways their children are loved and adored.

• Just Like Me

  Brantley-Newton, Vanessa,

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  An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to readers of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids poring over it to find a poem that's just for them.

• Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

  Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886,

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  A single poem, beautifully illustrated.

• How Elegant the Elephant

  Poems About Animals and Insects

  Hoberman, Mary Ann,

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  An alphabetized collection of poems about animals and insects, and illustrated by Marla Frazee.

• A Kick in the Head

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  Presents a selection of children's poetry which illustrates the different forms of poetry, including sonnet, couplet, ballad, elegy, and ode.

• In Praise of Mystery

  Limón, Ada,

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  While its roots are grounded in space exploration, the poem, which was engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that launched to Jupiter and its moons in October 2024, celebrates humankind’s endless curiosity.

• The Lost Words

  a Spell Book

  Macfarlane, Robert, 1976-

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  From bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist and author Jackie Morris, a beautiful collection of poems and illustrations to help readers rediscover the magic of the natural world. Check out "Spell Songs," an accompanying…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No More Poems!

  a Book in Verse That Just Gets Worse

  Miller, Rhett,

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  Shares humorous poems about such subjects as disco baths, sneaky sisters, nose hairs, and wanting a dog.

• Everything Comes Next

  Collected and New Poems

  Nye, Naomi Shihab,

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  Nye offers a brilliant collection of poems about the essence of human connection. She weaves her personal experiences into portraits of joy, pain, fear, and love. The poems range from a few stanzas to free verse stories that span several pages. Some…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wet Cement

  a Mix of Concrete Poems

  Raczka, Bob,

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  Who says words need to be concrete? This collection shapes poems in surprising and delightful ways. By using the arrangement of the words on the page to convey the meaning of the poem, concrete or shape poems are also easy to write!

• Home

  Simler, Isabelle,

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  Twenty-seven poems look inside the dwellings of animals like elf owls, cathedral termites, Sumatran orangutans, and foam-nest tree frogs. One bird makes her home by sewing together mango leaves with thread!

• Trees

  Haiku From Roots to Leaves

  Walker, Sally M.,

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  Combining science with poetry, this collection of haiku extols the wonder of trees through poems that engage with every season and stage of the life cycle, from seed to photosynthesis.

• Odder

  Applegate, Katherine,

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  Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Head Has a Bellyache

  More Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-ups

  Harris, Chris, 1970-

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  Filled with mind-bending verbal and visual riddles and comedic chaos, this hilarious follow-up to I'm Just No Good at Rhyming introduces a whole new cast of colorful characters, including the Nail-Clipping Fairy, Orloc the Destroyer, and the Elderly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Beautiful Country

  Kuo, Jane,

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  Arriving in America, the so-called beautiful country, Anna, a young Taiwanese girl, finds it anything but beautiful as she and her family struggle to make a place for themselves in this world and learn the true meaning of home. Great for fans of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Moose Boosh

  a Few Choice Words About Food

  Larkin, Shabazz,

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  Presents a collection of children's poems about growing, making, eating, and sharing food with incredible illustrations.

• Deer Run Home

  LeZotte, Ann Clare,

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  Moving into her father's trailer after an incident at her mom's house, Effie, who is deaf, gets tired of him stomping, pointing and making thoughtless jokes to communicate with her and wonders if telling the terrible secret she carries is the only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Onyx & Beyond

  McBride, Amber,

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  Set amid the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, this National Book Awards-finalist author explores being young and Black in America as Onyx, a boy dealing with his mother's descent into early-onset dementia, looks to fulfill his dream of becoming…Read moreRead more of this annotation