Best Witches
Last time this year I checked out Best Witches by Jane Yolen and our girls loved hearing the silly poems, and they each picked out one to commit to memory. We got it again this year and it's still a book they love to hear from to get into the Halloween spirit.
 | author: Jane Yolen rating:  asin: 0399215395 binding: Hardcover list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 |
The author presents her own poetry on witches, ghosts, magic, and other aspects of Halloween.
Science Verse
This poetry book was really funny and we all enjoyed it.
 | author: Jon Scieszka rating:  asin: 0670062693 binding: Paperback list price: $9.99 USD amazon price: $9.99 USD |
"Amoeba"
Don't ever tease a wee amoeba
By calling him a her amoeba.
And don't call her a him amoeba.
Or never he a she amoeba.
'Cause whether his or hers amoeba,
They too feel like you and meba.
What if a boring lesson about the food chain becomes a sing-aloud celebration about predators and prey? A twinkle-twinkle little star transforms into a twinkle-less, sunshine-eating-and rhyming Black Hole? What if amoebas, combustion, metamorphosis, viruses, the creation of the universe are all irresistible, laugh-out-loud poetry? Well, you're thinking in science verse, that's what. And if you can't stop the rhymes . . . the atomic joke is on you. Only the amazing talents of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith, the team who created Math Curse, could make science so much fun.
In the Witch's Kitchen: Poems for Halloween
Short and cute poems for Halloween.
 | author: L. Blackburn rating: asin: 069004061X binding: Hardcover list price: $10.95 USD amazon price: $10.95 |
A collection of forty-six Halloween poems by David McCord, Lilian Moore, Shel Silverstein, and others.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
 | rating:  asin: 0060256672 binding: Hardcover list price: $18.99 USD amazon price: $12.91 USD |
Shel Silverstein shook the staid world of children's poetry in 1974 with the publication of this collection, and things haven't been the same since. More than four and a half million copies of Where the Sidewalk Ends have been sold, making it the bestselling children's poetry book ever. With this and his other poetry collections (A Light in the Attic and Falling Up), Silverstein reveals his genius for reaching kids with silly words and simple pen-and-ink drawings. What child can resist a poem called "Dancing Pants" or "The Dirtiest Man in the World"?
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems
This beautifully illustrated book has a wide variety of poems. Our girls (then ages 5 & 8) picked a few out to commit to memory, such as The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. The book also has less familiar poems such as The Beautiful by W.H. Davies:
Three things there are more beautiful
Than any man could wish to see:
The first it is a full-rigged ship
Sailing with all her sails set free;
The second, when the wind and sun
Are playing in a field of corn;
The third, a woman, young and fair
Showing her child before it is born.
 | rating: asin: 1905236565 binding: Hardcover list price: $19.99 USD amazon price: $13.59 USD |
The 74 poems in this exquisite collection trace our journey through life from birth to old age. Along the way, the works of some of the finest poets in the English language celebrate all kinds of human experience: the wide-eyed wonder and adventure of childhood, the magnificence of the natural world and the animal kingdom, the mystery of love and the tragedy of war.Each page is superbly illustrated by Jackie Morris, making it a feast for the eyes as well as the ears.
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face: And Other Poems: Some of the Best of Jack Prelutsky
Very silly poetry. Some of it is gross, some of it is cute, some is really moving.
 | author: Jack Prelutsky rating: asin: 0061576530 binding: Hardcover list price: $22.99 USD amazon price: $17.93 USD |
When you're in the world of Jack Prelutsky, anything can happen. Ogres run wild, dragons sing, and baby uggs hatch. . . . Frogs wear red suspenders in a rainstorm of pigs and noodles. . . . Scranimals gallivant under a pizza the size of the sun. . . .
Even the new kid on the block can see that the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate is something big. So, what are you waiting for? Let your parents think you're sleeping, and ride a purple pelican to a land where imagination is king, ridiculous rhymes rule, and laughing out loud is guaranteed! These are Jack Prelutsky's greatest hits!
This 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 years. Lushly illustrated by rising star Brandon Dorman and featuring a CD with classic performances by the poet himself, it is the perfect volume for any poetry lover's bookshelf.
A Light in the Attic
 | rating: asin: 0060256737 binding: Hardcover list price: $18.99 USD amazon price: $12.91 USD |
Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:
Falling Up
 | rating: asin: 0060248025 binding: Hardcover list price: $18.99 USD amazon price: $12.91 USD |
Millie McDeevit screamed a screamSo loud it made her eyebrows steam.She screamed so loudHer jawbone broke,Her tongue caught fire,Her nostrils smoked...Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride th
