Make a Splash: Read some poetry about water

Cyrus, Kurt Hotel deep: light verse from dark water   In twenty-one poems a lone sardine goes off in search of its lost school within the dark halls of a great coral reef.  The oversize format is highlighted by brightly colored illustrations.   Graham, Joan Splish splash Twenty-one short poems celebrate water in its forms [...]

Sports Poetry Books

Sports Poetry Books  While it’s no secret that the Children’s Library has an extensive collection of poetry for children, young sports fans may not realize that more than a few of those books feature poems about their favorite sports.  Here is a sampling: Adoff, Arnold: The Basket Counts! Sports Pages Fehler, Gene: Change-Up:  Baseball Poems [...]

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Mother Goose

Don’t forget the wonderful rhythms and rhymes of Mother Goose when you are looking for poetry to read to children.  The Mother Goose rhymes have come down to us through the generations because they are easy to remember  and recite.  You don’t have to understand all of the words or the history behind the rhymes.  [...]

April is National Poetry Month

Here are some recent poetry books recommended by our Children’s Library.  Click on the blue link to get to the catalog entry for the title: Franco, Betsy.  Messing Around on the Monkey Bars: and Other School Poems for 2 Voices  19 simple poems for reading aloud highlighted by colorful illustrations.  Ghigna, Charles.   Score: 50 Poems to [...]