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Essential Children's Collection
Two respected children's literature consultants recommend poetry for school and public library collections.
ANTHOLOGIES
Adoff, Arnold. I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African-Americans.
Adoff, Arnold, ed. My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry.
Brenner, Barbara. The Earth Is Painted Green: A Garden of Poems about Our Planet.
Brenner, Barbara. Voices: Poetry and Art from Around the World.
Carlson, Lori Marie. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States.
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CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Ada, Alma Flor. Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English.
Alarcon, Francisco X. Poems to Dream Together / Poemas para Sonar Juntos.
Bruchac, Joseph. The Earth under Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems of the Land.
Bruchac, Joseph. Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons.
Bryan, Ashley. Sing to the Sun: Poems and Pictures by Ashley Bryan.
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CLASSIC POETRY
Ahlberg, Allan and Janet. Each Peach Pear Plum.
Brooks, Gwendolyn. Bronzeville Boys and Girls.
Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky. Illus. by Stephane Jorisch.
Ciardi, John. You Read to Me, I'll Read to You.
De la Mare, Walter. Peacock Pie: The Collected Works of Walter de la Mare.
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OUT-OF-PRINT POETRY
Baring-Gould, William and Ceil. The Annotated Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes Old and New.
Chapman, Cheryl. Snow on Snow on Snow.
Clifton, Lucille. Some of the Days of Everett Anderson.
Cohn, Amy L., ed. From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Jump Back Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
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POETRY BOOKS WITH TAPES/CDs
Clinton, Catherine. I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry.
Fleischman, Paul. Joyful Noise / I Am Phoenix.
Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six: Library Edition.
Paschen, Elise. Poetry Speaks to Children.
Prelutsky, Jack. The Jack Prelutsky Holiday CD Audio Collection.
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POETRY WRITTEN BY CHILDREN
Lyne, Sandford, ed. Ten-Second Rainshowers: Poems by Young People.
Nye, Naomi Shihab, ed. Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets.
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RESEARCH
Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition.
Vardell, Sylvia M. Poetry Aloud Here!: Sharing Poetry With Children in the Library.
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LITERATURE CONSULTANTS
Sylvia Vardell, Ph.D.
Professor
Texas Women's University
School of Library and Information Studies
Bernadette Nowakowski
Director, Children and Young Adult Services
Chicago Public Libraries
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