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
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Oregon City Public Library
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Eating my words : and 128 other poems
Cleary, Brian P.
Paper Book
At lunch, / I ate three cans / of alphabet soup. / An hour later / I had / thesaurus / throat / ever. Would you care for a cupful of couplets? How about a helping of haiku? Brian P. Cleary offers poetry by the plateful in this clever collection! Wordplay and humor abound in poems that cover...
Haiku ew! : celebrating the disgusting side of nature
Brunelle, Lynn
Paper Book
Stop right there! If you think poems about nature are all pretty flowers and rainbow sunsets, this book is not for you. If you can't handle giant whale farts, turn back right now. If you don't want to know how lobsters pee, do not read one word further. Seriously, if you open this book,...

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