National Poetry Month @ Fresno State Library

A Child's Anthology of Poetry The simple pleasures of reading and listening to poetry are unforgettable memories of childhood, and, for young minds, poetry is the gateway to an interest in language and storytelling. By bringing together essential classic children's poems with the best of modern and contemporary international poetry, this book is an introduction to literature and life for the young reader

A Child's Garden of Verses Presents selections from a collection of poems evoking the world and feeling of childhood.

A Poem for Peter The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. For more than two decades, Ezra had kept pinned to his wall a series of photographs of an adorable African American child. In Keats's hands, the boy morphed into Peter, a boy in a red snowsuit, out enjoying the pristine snow; the book became The Snowy Day, winner of the Caldecott Medal, the first mainstream book to feature an African American child. It was also the first of many books featuring Peter and the children of his -- and Keats's -- neighborhood.

All the Colors of the Earth Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable.

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability Beauty is a verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of each poet included.

Cast Away: Poems for Our Time Poet Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to refugees

Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art A collection of American poetry that celebrates over 200 years of American life and history as illustrated by fine art from the collection of the National Museum of American Art.

Crazy While growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental illness

Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.

Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir In this poetic memoir Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War. Her heart was in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lived in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a pl.ane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupted at the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Engle's worlds collided in the worst way possible. Would she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?

Fairyland: In Art and Poetry Offers a glimpse into the land of the fairies through art and poems by a variety of authors, including William Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and Langston Hughes.

Hate that Cat Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet, you know you've found poetry with a beat!

Honey, I love and Other Love Poems Each of these sixteen poems is spoken straight from the perspective of a child. Riding on a train, listening to music, playing with a friend...each poem elicits a new appreciation of the rich content of everyday life. The poems are accompanied by both portrait and panorama drawings that deepen the insights contained in the words.

Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed

I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery A volume of evocative and moving poems considers the experiences of slaves in a variety of circumstances including a house slave, a mother who loses her daughter on the auction block, and a slave fleeing through the Underground Railroad.

Inside Out and Back Again Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices Written to be read aloud by two voices-sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous-here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful noise" of insects.

Little Poems for Tiny Ears A collection of poetry for toddlers that celebrates the everyday things that fascinate them.

Love That Dog A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

My Chinatown: One Year in Poems A boy adjusts to life away from his home in Hong Kong, in the Chinatown of his new American city.

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir In the course of this remarkable memoir in verse, Nikki Grimes shows how grace, wisdom, and the power of words can help a brave soul conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of life.

Other Words for Home Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.

Poetrees A collection of poems about trees.

Poetry for Bird Watchers A collection of poems by various writers on the topics of bird watching, bird sounds and songs, bird ways, and thoughts about birds.

Room for Me and a Mountain Lion: Poetry of Open Space More than one hundred poems describing the beauty and splendor of the wilderness, written by some of the world's most famous poets.

Something Permanent The photographs of Walker Evans tell stories of ordinary people living in America in the extraordinary time of the Great Depression. Cynthia Rylant's poetry about the photographs offers a new voice in the telling, celebrating the beauty of life lived in extreme circumstances.

Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown Poems in celebration of brown skin color.

The Land of Nod An illustrated collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Poet’s Dog Teddy, a dog, leads siblings Nickel and Flora through a terrible snowstorm to shelter in a cabin, where he is flooded with memories of his deceased owner, the poet Sylvan.

The Poetry of Science: The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids n this book you'll find 248 poems about science, technology, engineering, math-- and all your favorite topics! If you like learning about animals, machines, Earth and space, famous scientists, science projects, and how things work...you'll find a ton of poems to inspire you. Read about being a citizen scientist, an inventor, an engineer, a video game programmer, and astronaut & more!

The Random House Book of Poetry for Children This deceptively slender volume contains a treasure-trove of poems. Each page is crammed with verse and illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel. Everyone's favorite poems are complemented by fresh new voices and organized into such unusual themes as food, the city, spooky poems, and word play.

Voices from the March on Washington Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to march on Washington, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.

Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners Ninety-five poems pay tribute to essential voices past and present that have the power to provoke us, lead us, and give us hope

Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.