Poetry Reviews

Single Author Collections:
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Forest Has a Song

If This Bird Had Pockets: A Poem in Your Pocket Day Celebration
Read! Read! Read!
With My Hands: Poems about Making Things

Write! Write! Write!
Anna Grossnickle Hines
Pieces: A Year in Poems 
Arnold Lobel
The Frogs and Toads All Sang
Odd Owls and Stout Pigs
Avis Harley
African Acrostics: A Word in Edgeways
Betsy Franco
A Curious Collection of Cats
A Dazzling Display of Dogs

A Spectacular Selection of Sea Critters
Bob Raczka
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from One Word
Charles Edward Carryl
The Camel's Lament illustrated by Charles Santore 
David Elliott
In the Sea
In the Wild

In the Woods
On the Farm

On the Wing
In the Past
David L. Harrison 

The Dirt Book: Poems About Animals That Live Beneath Our Feet

Deborah Ruddell 

The Popcorn Astronauts and Other Biteable Rhymes
Today at the Bluebird Café: A Branchful of Birds
A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems
Douglas Florian
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings

Ice: Poems about Polar Life

Mammalabila
Poetrees   
UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems & Paintings
Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All

Zoobilations! Animal Poems and Paintings
Edward Lear
The Duck and the Kangaroo illustrated by Jane Wattenberg
Elaine Magliaro
Things to Do 
Gail Carson Levine
Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems
Georgia Heard

Boom! Bellow! Bleat! Animal Poems for Two or More Voices

Halfdan Rasmussen
A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young
Helen Frost
Step Gently Out 
Irene Latham

Nine: A Book of Nonet Poems

J. Patrick Lewis
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies
Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles 
The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse
Jack Prelutsky
Camille Saint-Saens's The Carnival of the Animals with New Verses

Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast and Other Tasty Poems
If Not for the Cat
I've Lost My Hippopotamus 
My Dog May Be a Genius
Jane Yolen
Animal Fare
Bird Watch
Dear Mother, Dear Daughter with Heidi E. Y. Stemple
The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson 
Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children
Water Music
Joan Bransfield Graham
Flicker Flash
Jon J. Muth

Hi, Koo! A Year of Seasons

Joyce Sidman 
Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
Red Sings from the Treetops: A Year in Colors
Songs of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors
Julie Fogliano

When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons

Julie Larios

Delicious! Poems Celebrating Street Food Around the World

Karma Wilson
What's the Weather Inside? 
Kirsten Hall 

Snow Birds

Kristine O'Connell George 
Emma Dilemma: Big Sister Poems
The Great Frog Race and Other Poems 
Laura Purdie Salas
Bookspeak!: Poems about Books

In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide-Awake House

Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons
Lee Wardlaw
Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
Leslie Bulion

Spi-Ku: A Clutter of Short Verse of Eight Legs

Linda Ashman
Stella, Unleashed
Lisa Wheeler
The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses
Margarita Engle
Bravo! Poems about amazing Hispanics
Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
Marilyn Singer 
Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems 

Follow the Recipe: Poems about Imagination, Celebration, and Cake
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
Twosomes: Love Poems from the Animal Kingdom

Who Named Their Pony Macaroni? Poems about White House Pets

Wild in the Streets: 20 Poems of City Animals
Mary Ann Hoberman

Away with Words! Wise and Witty Poems for Language Lovers

Michael J. Rosen
The Cuckoo's Haiku and Other Birding Poems 
Michelle Schaub 

Finding Treasure: A Collection of Collections
Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market
Myra Cohn Livingston
Cricket Never Does 
Nicola Davies
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature
Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals
Pat Mora

Bookjoy, Wordjoy

Patricia MacLachlan & Emily MacLachlan Charest
I Didn't Do It
Richard Wright
Seeing Into Tomorrow
Robert Heidbreder

Catch the Sky: Playful Poems on the Air We Share

Rodoula Pappa

Beautiful Day! Petite Poems for All Seasons 

Skila Brown 

Clackety Track: Poems About Trains

Sydell Rosenberg
H Is for Haiku: A Treasury of Haiku Poems from A to Z
Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Steady Hands: Poems about Work
Valerie Worth
Pug and Other Animal Poems

Verlie Hutchens 

Trees
 
Multiple Author Collections:
A Bunch of Punctuation selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Construction People selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems edited by Georgia Heard

I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs by J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry edited by J. Patrick Lewis
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry edited by J. Patrick Lewis

Night Wishes selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth
Poetry Speaks Who I Am edited by Elise Paschen

The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How-To Poems selected by Paul B. Janeczko
World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins


Verse Novels:
Applesauce Weather by Helen Frost
Borrowed Names by Jeannine Atkins
The Dancing Pancake by Eileen Spinelli
Girl Coming in for a Landing by April Halprin Wayland

Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson 
Loose Threads by Lorie Ann Grover
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

May B by Caroline Starr Rose
Three Rivers Rising by James Richards
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill


Other Books of Note:
Fancy Nancy: Poet Extraordinaire! by Jane O'Connor
The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires
Nobody's Secret by Michaela MacColl
Picture Yourself Writing Poetry: Using Photos to Inspire Writing by Laura Purdie Salas
Pizza, Pigs, Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky

Other Poetry Posts of Note:
Happy National Poetry Month 2013
Teen Poetry Event 2013
National Poetry Month 2013 Flannel Friday Post
Happy National Poetry Month 2012
Nursery Rhymes & Poetry Felt Sets for a Flannel Board


Last Updated on September 13, 2024.