A Curious Collection of Cats
by: Betsy Franco
Words and pictures blend in these concrete poems about cats, written in forms that include haiku, limerick, and free verse.
“2012 Poetry Beehive Award Nominees” in kids-books
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“2012 Poetry Beehive Award Nominees”
Curious Creatures
by: Barry Louis Polisar
A humorously illustrated collection of funny and thought-provoking poems about animals.
The Dancing Pancake
by: Eileen Spinelli
Eleven-year-old Belinda "Bindi" Winkler and her family find their way through tough times with the love and support of the community that grows around their newly opened restaurant, "The Dancing Pancake."
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
by: Joyce Sidman
A collection of poems that celebrate the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark.
Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love
by: Pat Mora
"...an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart's desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these grac
In the Wild
by: David Elliott
A woodcut-illustrated collection of poems that celebrates wild animals.
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
by: Marilyn Singer
A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.
Name That Dog! Puppy Poems from A to Z
by: Peggy Archer
Gives one dog's name for every letter of the alphabet with an accompanying poem.
Scarum Fair
by: Jessica Swaim
Poems that mix familiar sights and sounds of the fair with creepy, ghoulish, and gorgeous illustrations and funny rhymes.
