Poetry
Selected Books
These poetry picture books and many more can be found in the Children's Collection on the main floor of Montgomery Library.
Marshmallow Clouds by 
The Real Dada Mother Goose: a Treasury of Complete Nonsense by 
Ring Around the Moon by 
(Caldecott Honor Book) In Every Life by Poetry Books
Poetry is written to be HEARD. Poetry picture books add a visual element to the experience.
Find these poetry picture books and many others in the Children's Collection on Montgomery Library's main floor.
Poetry Picture Books
| Animal poems for children / DeWitt Conyers, ed. | PS 595 .A5 A54 1982 | |
| Around the seasons / Eleanor Farjeon | PZ 8.3 .F228 Ar 1969 | |
| Beast feast / Douglas Florian | PS 3556 .L589 B4 1995 | |
| Bilbo's last song: at the Grey Havens / J.R.R. Tolkien | PR 6039 .O32 B55 1992 | |
| Black is brown is tan / Arnold Adoff | PZ 8.3 .A233 Bl 2002 | |
| Candy corn: poems / James Stevenson | PS 3569 .T4557 C36 1999 | |
| Casey at the bat: a ballad of the republic sung in the year 1888 / Ernest Lawrence Thayer | PS 3014 .T3 2003 | |
| Color me a rhyme: Nature poems for young people / Jane Yolen | PS 3575 .O43 C65 2000 | |
| The creation / James Weldon Johnson | PS 3519 .O2625 C73 1994 | |
| Dark emperor & other poems of the night / Joyce Sidman | PS 3569 .I295 D37 2010 | |
| Eric Carle's animals, animals / Laura Whipple, ed. | PN 6100 .A7 C37 1999 | |
| Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers / Marilyn Hoberman | PS 3558 .O3367 F38 1991 | |
| Firefly July: a year of very short poems / Paul B. Janeczko, ed. | PS 586.3 .F525 2014 | |
| Flicker flash / Joan Bransfield Graham | PS 3557 .R213 F55 1999 | |
| The great migration: journey to the North / Eloise Greenfield | PS 3557 .R39416 G74 2011 | |
| A house is a house for me / Mary Ann Hoberman | PZ 8.3 .H66 1978 | |
| The house that Jack built / illus. by Jenny Stow | PZ 8.3 .H79 1992 | |
| Hush: a Thai lullaby / Minfong Ho | PS 3558 .O316 H87 1996 | |
| I saw a peacock with a fiery tail / Ram Singh Urveti | PR 9499.4 .U78 I83 2015 | |
| I, too, am America / Langston Hughes | PS 3515 .U274 I3 2012 | |
| In the past / David Elliott | PS 3555 .L5674 I48 2018 | |
| I'm just no good at rhyming / Chris Harris | PZ 7 .H241229 Im 2017 | |
| Lemonade and other poems / Bob Raczka | PS 3618 .A346 L46 2011 | |
| The llama who had no pajama: 100 favorite poems / Mary Ann Hoberman | PS 3558 .O3367 L58 2006 | |
| Making friends with Frankenstein / Colin McNaughton | PR 6063 .C65 M34 1994 | |
| Marshmallow clouds / Ted Kooser and Connie Wanek | PS 3561. O6 M37 2022 | |
| Martin rising: requiem for a King / Andrea Davis Pinkney | PS 3616 .I574 A6 2018 | |
| Mommy Goose: rhymes from the mountains / Mike Norris | PS 3614 .O7689 M66 2016 | |
| Nonsense! / Edward Lear | PR 4879 .L2 A6 2004 | |
| Out of wonder: poems celebrating poets / Kwame Alexander | PN 1031 .O98 2017 | |
| Play rhymes / Marc Brown | GV 1218 .F5 B77 1987 | |
| The real Dada Mother Goose / Jon Scieszka | PZ 8.3 .S3952 Rea 2022 | |
| Ring around the moon: Mommy Goose rhymes / Mike Norris | PS 3614 .O7689 R56 2019 | |
| Song of the water boatman & other pond poems / Joyce Sidman | PS 3569 .I295 S66 2005 | |
| Step gently out / Helen Frost | PS 3556 .R5982 S74 2012 | |
| A stick is an excellent thing / Marilyn Singer | PS 3569 .I546 S75 2012 | |
| A visit to William Blake's inn / Nancy Willard | PS 3573 .I444 V5 1981 | |
| Wet cement: a mix of concrete poems / Bob Raczka | PS 3618 .A346 A6 2016 | |
| Winter bees and other poems of the cold / Joyce Sidman | PS 3569 .I295 A6 2014 | |
| Winter lights: a season in poems & quilts / Anna Grossnickel Hines | PS 3558 .I528 W56 2005 | |
| Won Ton: a cat tale told in haiku / Lee Wardlaw | PZ 7 .W2174 Won 2011 | |
| The year comes round: Haiku through the seasons / Sid Farrar | PS 3606 .A733 Y43 2012 | |
| Yum! mmmm! que rico! / Pat Mora | PN 6110 .F73 M67 2007 |
Children's Poetry Classics:
| The American Mother Goose / Ray Wood | PZ 7 .W56 Ame 1968 | |
| An Appalachian Mother Goose / James Still | PS 3537 .T5377 A66 1998 | |
| A child's garden of verses / Robert Louis Stevenson | PR 5489 .C5 1981 | |
| Favorite poems old and new / Helen Josephine Ferris | PZ 8.3 .F375 Fa 1957 | |
| Honey, I love and other poems / Eloise Greenfield | PS 3557 .R39416 H656 2003 | |
| Joyful noise: poems for two voices / Paul Fleischman | PS 3556 .L42268 J69 1992 | |
| The Kingfisher book of family poems / Belinda Hollyer, ed. | PR 1195 .F35 K55 2003 | |
| A light in the attic / Shel Silverstein | PS 3569 .I47224 L5 2009 | |
| Miss Mary Mack and other children's street rhymes / Joanna Cole, ed. | GR 105.5 .M57 1990 | |
| New kid on the block / Jack Prelutsky | PS 3566 .R36 N4 1984 | |
| Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg / Kathryn Benzel, ed. | PS 3537 .A618 2017 | |
| Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson / Susan Snively, ed. | PS 1541 .A6 2016b | |
| Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost / Jay Parini, ed. | PS 3511 .R94 A6 2017 | |
| Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman / Karen Karbiener, ed. | PS 586.3 .W35 2017 | |
| Poetry for Kids: William Shakespeare / Marguerite Tassi, ed. | PR 2895 .S53 2018 | |
| The Random House book of poetry for children / Jack Prelutsky, ed. | PS 586.3 .R36 1983 | |
| Sing a song of popcorn / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers | PN 6109.97 .S56 1988 | |
| This little piggy / Jane Yolen, ed. | PZ 8.3 T7512 2005 | |
| Where the sidewalk ends / Shel Silverstein | PS 3569 .I47224 W48 2004 | |
| You read to me, I'll read to you / John Ciardi | PZ 8.3 .C52 Yo 1987 |
NCTE Poetry Awards
In 1977, The National Council of Teachers of English established an award to honor a living American poet for his or her contribution to poetry for children ages three through thirteen. This award is called the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
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