Poetry

In Dirty Beasts we meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfully comic animals that can only have been invented by Roald Dahl.... 

A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year....

A deluxe treasury of family favorites selected by the best-selling mother-daughter team....

The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood.... 

From rockets to mermaids and everything in between, there's something for everyone in this diverse and contemporary collection....

Poetry for all seasons for young listeners. Includes poems about nature, the landscape, the weather, and children’s experiences of the seasons, from ice cream to Christmas trees....

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

A companion book to his best-selling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life....

An anthology of over 50 classic children's poems, read by some of our finest actors....

The award-winning poetry of young Mattie Stepanek has touched the lives of hundreds and thousands of people....

A vast array of poems old and new joyously celebrates each special day of the year....

The practical cats need no introduction, but this stunning new reading by Lemn Sissay brings the poems vibrantly alive to introduce a new generation of children to Eliot's work....

From Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) comes a brand-new collection of rhyming stories about frogs and toads....

This is a treasure chest of Naomi Shihab Nye’s most beloved poems. From favorites such as “Famous” and “A Valentine for Ernest Mann” to the widely shared “Kindness” and “Gate A-4”, this collection celebrates her term as Young People’s Poet Laureate....

Construction equipment has long been a favorite of little listeners and D Is for Dump Truck takes children on an A to Z exploration of a fun backyard construction site. With bouncy poems for each letter and a glossary in the back, this book brings the thrill of construction....

Originally published in 1885, A Child’s Garden of Verses has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation....

We all have choices to make every day, even the youngest children. The choices we make play a large part in forming who we grow to be as adults....

In Scranimals, you will find the fragrant Rhinocerose and the cunning Broccolions, and, if you are very, very quiet, you'll spot the gentle, shy Pandaffodil....

For the first time ever, 75 beloved songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and The Children's Corner are collected in this charming treasury, sure to be cherished by generations of children as well as the millions of adults who grew up with Mister Rogers....

Acclaimed poet and Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than 80 original and never-before-published poems....

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood....