Ideas for Cybils 2021 Poetry Nominations Part 1

Poetry is back as a category for the 2021 Cybils and I wanted to share books that are eligible to be nominated. Part 1 is for books from kindergarten through sixth grade. Part 2 will be books for seventh through twelfth grade. (Links are to my reviews of the titles.)

Collections for Kindergarten
The Dirt Book: Poems about Animals That Live Beneath Our Feet by David L. Harrison
Delicious: Poems Celebrating Street Food Around the World by Julie Larios
Beyond: Discoveries from the Outer Reaches of Space by Miranda Paul
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play by Tracey Campbell Pearson
An Emotional Menagerie: Feelings from A to Z edited by Alain de Bottom
Snow Birds by Kirsten Hall
 
Collections for Grades 1-2
Coyote’s Soundbite: A Poem for the Planet by John Agard
The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastic by Susan Hood
Beautiful Day! Petite Poems for All Seasons by Rodoula Pappa
If You Go Down to the Woods Today by Rachel Piercey
Hello, Earth! By Joyce Sidman
My Words Flew Away Like Birds by Debora Pearson
What Are Little Girls Made of? By Jeanne Willis
 
Collections for Grades 2-3
For Every Little Thing: Poems and Prayers to Celebrate the Day edited by June Cotner and Nancy Tupper Ling
Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems byJack Prelutsky
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!: An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year edited by Fiona Waters
ICE! Poems about Polar Life by Douglas Florian
I Wish I Had a Wookiee by Ian Doescher
 
Collections for Grades 3-4
Spi-ku: A Clutter of Short Verse on Eight Legs by LeslieBulion
I Am Odd, I Am New by Benjamin Giroux
My Thoughts Are Clouds by Georgia Heard
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice by A. F. Harrold
The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems edited by Brian Moses
Dear Ugly Sisters: And Other Poems by Laura Mucha
 
Collections for Grades 4-6
They Only See Outside by Kalli Dakos
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes
The Little Mermaid by J. M. Farkas
Carry On: Poetry by Young Immigrants edited by Rogé Girard
Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words edited by Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry
37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M. S. St. Louis, 1939 by Barbara Krasner
New Royalty by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
What About Will? By Ellen Hopkins 

Verse Novels for Grades 3-4
Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz
Reckless, Glorious, Girl by Ellen Hagan
The One Thing You’d Save by Linda Sue Park
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan
Love, Love by Victoria Chang
 
Verse Novels for Grades 4-6
The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron
Unsettled by Reem Faruqi
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Alone by Megan E. Freeman
Everywhere Blue by Joanne Rossmassler Fritz
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
D-39: A Robodog’s Journey by Irene Latham
Recipe for Disaster by Aimee Lucido
Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz
Miles from Motown by Lisa Sukenic
We Belong by Cookie Hiponia Everman
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine by K. A. Holt
The Lost Language by Claudia Mills 

If you're looking for ideas for other categories or if you have a book you'd like to be nominated but you've already used that category, look no further than the Cybils Idea Boards. Here's a link with all the details.