A Treasury of Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandberg, Walt Whitman

by Frances Schoonmaker (Editor), Gary D. Schmidt (Editor), Brod Bagert (Editor)

This volume combines the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Longfellow, Poe, Carl Sandberg and Walt Whitman with specially commissioned illustrations, a biography of each poet, definitions of the harder vocabulary and a literary commentary. Classic poems to introduce young readers to poetry.

Genres: Poetry, School, Nonfiction, Childrens, Classics

286 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2008

About the author

Frances Schoonmaker is the award-winning author of The Last Crystal Trilogy for middle-grade and young adult readers in addition to her professional books on education.

She sees her writing for young people as an extension of a career that has served them. After teaching school for a dozen years, she became a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University where she taught in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and was Director/Co-Director of the graduate-level teacher preparation program in childhood education.

The Last Crystal Trilogy is the recipient of multiple awards. The Black Alabaster Box won the Firebird Award for Historical Fiction. The Last Crystal has won the 2019 Agatha Award for Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Mystery, The Coffee Pot Book Club Gold Medal for Historical Fiction, the Outstanding Creator Award, the Midcrest Media Award and the London Book Festival Award.

Reviews

[Christy]

If you like poems it is a nice book. A lot of the illustrations were very pretty.

[Lisa]

We only read one poem a day, so this took us a long time to get through. My oldest is 6 and I think this collection would be better for kids a bit older. Many of the poems had images and even whole topics that went way over my kids’ heads; a few of them were really long; and we skipped the section of Poe altogether.

Our favorite sections were the poems by Frost and Longfellow.

[Toni]

i spent a whole school year reading aloud to my kids from this book. many lovely poems, although i skipped the section on Poe. much of his work feels too dark and hopeless to me.

[Miriam]

For the longest time I thought I wasn't really into poetry. This book made me realize that I don't care for poetry about flowers trees and the sky. The ones I'm into are about death, love; the ones that have a story to go along with them. Mainly the ones by Edgar Allan Poe. Especially Annabel Lee, The Bells, and The Raven.

[Barbara Lovejoy]

Periodically I order a book unseen that far exceeds my expectations. This is one of them!!! I couldn't read it fast enough and enjoy the short life sketches, the poems, and the illustrations. Now I am going to go back and read it again---slowly so I can savor it all.

[Ally]

I kept this book for so long mostly because of the beautiful artwork in it.

[Homefrontgirl]

Quality resource!

[Applemily]

I enjoyed reading this poetry. I don't remember which was my favorite poem although, I liked the Raven a lot.

[Lindsay]

For our homeschool: This has a good selection of poets though we found one we didn’t care for at all.

[Renee Haug]

This book includes mini biographies on the 6 selected poets, many poems, and beautiful illustrations. Some of the poems are excerpts (like Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride).

[Montana Phan]

A good read...

[Jo Ann]

This is a wonderful introduction to famous poets such as Poe, Whitman, Longfellow, Dickinson, etc for children.

[Jenelle Kirchoff]

Loved this collection. Added a few poems after bedtime stories. After the third night, they started asking for me to read it more!!!

[Danielle]

This was the best collection of American poets we've read to date. We particularly enjoyed the 5 or so page bios of the authors. Read one great poem a day, it's food for the soul!

[Theresa]

a treasury of poetry for young people
by brod bagert
Great collection of poems with explanations and ideals expressed in poetry

[Brandi]

Sophomore sunlight book.

[Brickell Dotson]

Great because it includes the work of multiple poets.

[Bryan Spahr]

read for school in 8th grade

[Lucy Buller]

Read for school.