Poetry Month (Kids)

Updated November 6, 2025
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Can I touch your hair? : poems of race, mistakes, and friendship
Latham, Irene
Paper Book
Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. ...
Champion chompers, super stinkers : and other poems by extraordinary animals
Ashman, Linda.
Paper Book
Who's tops in the animal world? Readers get to find out, as they play a guessing game that uses delightful persona poems to introduce 19 animals who are the best in some way. Each poem offers hints about the identity of an animal and what makes it so amazing. Included are popular categories, such as...
Poetry comics
Snider, Grant.
Paper Book
Combining poetry and comics in a whole new way, this fun and imaginative book is perfect for poetry lovers and reluctant readers alike. "Poetry Comics is a sprint through a sprinkler, a cool evening breeze, and the discovery of static electricity all at...
Winter bees & other poems of the cold
Sidman, Joyce
Paper Book
     In this outstanding picture book collection of poems by Newbery Honor-winning poet, Joyce Sidman (Song of the Water Boatman, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night), discover how animals stay alive in the wintertime and learn about their secret lives happening under the...
Eric Carle's animals, animals
Carle, Eric.
Paper Book
Fish that fly, butterflies that dance, camels that "trollop along," a tiger that has swallowed the sun--Animals Animals! In this commemorative volume, created especially for sharing, Eric Carle celebrates the broadest, liveliest cast of animals yet, illustrating a distinguished...
Digger, dozer, dumper
Vestergaard, Hope.
Paper Book
Each truck and big machine in these enticing rhyming poems is different -- and little readers are invited to find a vehicle that's like them. Sixteen boisterous, rhyming poems -- each one highlighting the job and personality of a different vehicle, from a backhoe to an ambulance...
The lady with the alligator purse
Westcott, Nadine Bernard.
Paper Book
Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman's bestselling Sing-Along Stories are perfect for reading together, with over one million copies sold in all formats. You know the song, but you've never heard it like this! A familiar melody with uproariously funny new...
Brown girl dreaming
Woodson Jacqueline.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The acclaimed author of Red at the Bone tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing poems. A NEWBERY HONOR BOOK * WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING BOOK AWARD * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY...
A child's garden of verses
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasant thing Ever a child can do! Whether they are remembering soaring into the the sky on a swing or building great palaces of blocks, children will deli ght in these much-loved poems about the everyday...

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