The Random House Book of Poetry
for Children  

Jack Prelutsky;  Arnold Lobel
Random House; Hardcover;  248 pp.

Best Books for Children, 6th edition. This fine anthology of 572 poems makes it easy to include poetry in the early years. Arnold Lobel’s delightful illustrations dance alongside the poems.

A Child’s Garden of Verses: A collection of scriptures, prayers and poems  

Robert Louis Stevenson
Dover Publications; Paperback; 96 pp.

An ideal first book in poetry, A Child’s Garden of Verses is the most popular collection of poems about childhood in the English language. The poems describe activities, feelings, and daydreams familiar to children. The well-chosen words and lively rhythms and rhymes are a perfect addition to the Living Books Curriculum.

Favorite Poems of Childhood

Philip Smith, Editor
Dover; Paperback; 96 pp.

Excellent treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat”, Eugene Field’s “Wynken, Blynken and Nod”, Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”, Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Swing”, and many more. The volume is printed in large, easy-to-read type for your second-grade child to read aloud.

Favorite Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dover; Paperback; 96 pp.

This collection reflects the poet’s mastery of a variety of poetic forms and meters. Included is one of his best narrative poems, “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, along with such famous works as “The Village Blacksmith,” “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” “The Children’s Hour” and “Paul Revere’s Ride.”  Longfellow was a writer during the early part of the 19th century and a study of his works correlates with American history and is used in Terms 1 and 2.

Civil War Poetry: An anthology

Paul Negri, editor
Dover; Paperback; 119 pp.

Over seventy-five inspired works by Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Markham, many others. This book of poems is used as part of the American History studies.

One Hundred Best-loved Poems

Philip Smith , editor
Dover; Paperback; 96 pp.

Popular, well-known poetry such as, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.

Best Remembered Poems  

Martin Gardner
Dover; Paperback; 210 pp.

The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned Renascence of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical The Owl and the Pussycat and James Whitcomb Riley's homespun When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin. Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) and Ernest Thayer (Casey at the Bat).