Poetry for Kids

While this list is updated each year in April for National Poetry Month, poetry can be enjoyed and celebrated all year long! To explore more poetry titles, check out our Novel in Verse recommendations, search the LINCC catalog, or browse the books at 811 on the nonfiction shelves!

Updated November 20, 2025
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Poetry for Kids

While this list is updated each year in April for National Poetry Month, poetry can be enjoyed and celebrated all year long! To explore more poetry titles, check out our Novel in Verse recommendations, search the LINCC catalog, or browse the books at 811 on the nonfiction shelves!

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Hope is the thing with feathers
Dickinson, Emily
Paper Book
Part of a new collection of literary voices from Gibbs Smith, written by, and for, extraordinary women--to encourage, challenge, and inspire. One of American's most distinctive poets, Emily Dickinson scorned the conventions of her day in her approach to writing, religion...
In and out the window
Yolen, Jane
Paper Book
The largest single anthology of Jane Yolen's poetry, containing more than one hundred poems for all occasions--with fun black-and-white art throughout. Our Kitchen Smells of mornings, blueberry muffins, hot chocolate, tea.
Wonder why
Perron, Lisa Varchol
Paper Book
Giant sky, brightest blue, like an artist painted you. How I wonder, wonder why, why are you so blue, big sky Enchanting and educational! This picture book takes the young reader through the arc of the day and answers "Why" in beautiful verse that begs to...
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