American poetry
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The Great Migration: Journey to the North
$9.99 Read moreWe were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life.
In this beautif
- Author: Greenfield, Eloise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0061259233
- Language: English
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
$18.99 Read moreThe 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
Out of gratitude for th
A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree’s New York Times best-selling ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder.- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 076368094X
- Language: English
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Bein’ with You This Way
$11.95 Add to cartAn African American girl and her friends play together and learn that despite their physical differences, they are all really the same.
On a beautiful sunny day, an African American girl visits the par
- Author: Nikola, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1880000261
- Language: English
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Words with Wings
$9.99 Add to cartIn this Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winner Nikki Grimes explores though her celebrated poetry how a supportive teacher can be the key to unlocking a dreame… [more below]
- Author: Grimes, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1635924782
- Language: English
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I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices
$5.99 Add to cartAt first light the finches
are flitting about the treesFlittering
fluttering
flit
purple finches
flit
Fluttering
flittering
fly
painted finches
fly.In this companion volume to Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
- Author: Fleischman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0064460924
- Language: English
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The Other Way to Listen
$8.99 Add to cartWith a lot of practice, a young boy learns from his old teacher how to listen to the sounds and songs of the natural world.
When you know “the other way to listen,” you can hear the wild-flower seed b- Author: Baylor, Byrd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0689810539
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems
$7.99 Read moreIs this poetry? Math? A brainteaser? Yes It’s all that and more. The poet J. Patrick Lewis has reimagined classic poems–such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Langston Hughes’s “April Rain Song”-… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, J. Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0544456122
- Language: English
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Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson: Volume 2
$8.99 Read moreSee the beauty and magic of the everyday world through the eyes of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s best-loved and most renowned poets. Flowers, birds, sunrises, sunsets, the moon, and even her own e
- Series: Poetry for Young People #2
- Author: Dickinson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1402754736
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems
$14.99 Add to cartAmerican children’s poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” expanded widely in the 20th century, … [more below]
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 22 2001
- ISBN10: 019514578X
- Language: English
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In the Past: From Trilobites to Dinosaurs to Mammoths in More Than 500 Million Years
$18.99 Read moreReturn to the prehistoric era and discover a host of creatures both novel and familiar, from the mysterious trilobite to the famed T. rex.
Care to meet a dunkleosteus? An apatosaurus? How about the dr- Author: Elliott, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0763660736
- Language: English
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For a Girl Becoming: Volume 66
$19.95 Read moreTransformative moments in the cycle of life are a time for acknowledgment, a chance to guide a child’s path in a positive and loving direction.
Swirling images laden with both myth and personal meanin- Series: Sun Tracks: An American Indian Literary (Hardcover) #66
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0816527970
- Language: English
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With My Hands: Poems about Making Things
$17.99 Add to cartFor young makers and artists, brief, lively poems illustrated by a NYT bestselling duo celebrate the pleasures of working with your hands.
Building, baking, folding, drawing, shaping . . . making som- Author: Vanderwater, Amy Ludwig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0544313402
- Language: English
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Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
$18.99 Add to cartWith 6 starred reviews, 8 best of the year lists, and over 20 state award nominations, everyone is raving about Mirror Mirror!
“Remarkable.”–The Washington Post “This mind-bending poetry is accompani- Author: Singer, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0525479015
- Language: English
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Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face: And Other Poems [With CD]
$22.99 Read moreThis magnificent treasury of more than one hundred of Jack Prelutsky’s most celebrated verses, along with fifteen all-new poems, is a tribute to his gifts to children’s literature over the past forty
- Author: Prelutsky, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0061576530
- Language: English
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Breathe and Be: A Book of Mindfulness Poems
$17.95 Read moreI breathe slowly in,
Hear thunder crash, feel your toes touch sand, and watch leaves dri
I breathe slowly out. My breath
is a river of peace.
I am here in the world.
Each moment I can breathe and be.- Author: Coombs, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1622039378
- Language: English
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Tan to Tamarind: Poems about the Color Brown
$11.95 Read moreA poetry collection that explores the spectrum of beautiful shades of brown.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Tan, sienna, topaz, or tamarind? Poet Malathi Michelle Iyengar sees a whole sp
- Author: Iyengar, Malathi Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0892394129
- Language: English
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Middle Distance: Poems
$16.95 Read moreAfter a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance–looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future sha
- Author: Plumly, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882497
- Language: English
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Danger Days
$16.00 Add to cartThe poems in Catherine Pierce’s new Danger Days celebrate our planet while also bearing witness to its collapse. In poems steeped deep in the 21st century, Pierce weaves superblooms and Legos, gun vio… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1947817205
- Language: English
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Scald
$20.00 Add to cartWhen her “smart” phone keeps asking her to autocorrect her name to Denise Richards, Denise Duhamel begins a journey that takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion with her characteristic wit… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Duhamel, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0822964503
- Language: English
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Life in a Country Album: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2020 Palestine Book AwardFinalist, 2019 Foreword Indies Award
From migrations to pop culture, loss to la d駻ive, Life in a Country Album is a soundtrack of the global cultural landscape–bord
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Handal, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 115
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0822965941
- Language: English
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