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The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
American children's poetry began with Native American cradle songs, moved on to a rhymed alphabet, blossomed in the 19th century with "A Visit from St. Nicholas," expanded widely in the 20th century, and continues with vigor into the new millennium. Some of the best of these poems, however, have been neglected or forgotten.
This collection, edited by acclaimed children's author and poet Donald Hall, returns the forgotten treasures of American children's poetry. Featuring some of the best of children's book illustration-including archival selections from rare and early editions and pictures from now defunct 19th- and early-20th-century children's magazines-this anthology revives not only the classic poems but also the atmosphere of the periods in which they were written and read.
Starting with anonymous Native American verses and a selection from the 1727 New England Primer, "Alphabet," this book spans two centuries of American children's poetry. Immediately recognizable names, including Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and T. S. Eliot are joined by talented contemporary poets like Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Janet S. Wong, and others. Perennial favorites-such as "The Three Little Kittens" and "Casey at the Bat"-are mixed in with new classics, such as Shel Silverstein's "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out." Poems about holidays appear with verses for recitation, nursery rhymes, poems for laughter, bedtime verses, scary poems, and animal poems. In recognition of America's diverse nature, the selections in this anthology reflect a variety of backgrounds and experiences. From anonymous African-American poets we step forward through the ages to admire the talents of Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Francisco X. Alarcón.
Children will love discovering these gems, and both parents and teachers will delight in reading to children from this book.
This collection, edited by acclaimed children's author and poet Donald Hall, returns the forgotten treasures of American children's poetry. Featuring some of the best of children's book illustration-including archival selections from rare and early editions and pictures from now defunct 19th- and early-20th-century children's magazines-this anthology revives not only the classic poems but also the atmosphere of the periods in which they were written and read.
Starting with anonymous Native American verses and a selection from the 1727 New England Primer, "Alphabet," this book spans two centuries of American children's poetry. Immediately recognizable names, including Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and T. S. Eliot are joined by talented contemporary poets like Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Janet S. Wong, and others. Perennial favorites-such as "The Three Little Kittens" and "Casey at the Bat"-are mixed in with new classics, such as Shel Silverstein's "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out." Poems about holidays appear with verses for recitation, nursery rhymes, poems for laughter, bedtime verses, scary poems, and animal poems. In recognition of America's diverse nature, the selections in this anthology reflect a variety of backgrounds and experiences. From anonymous African-American poets we step forward through the ages to admire the talents of Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Francisco X. Alarcón.
Children will love discovering these gems, and both parents and teachers will delight in reading to children from this book.
100 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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Donald Hall
180 books201 followersDonald Hall was considered one of the major American poets of his generation.
His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet’s abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. Often compared favorably with such writers as James Dickey, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Hall used simple, direct language to evoke surrealistic imagery. In addition to his poetry, Hall built a respected body of prose that includes essays, short fiction, plays, and children’s books. Hall, who lived on the New Hampshire farm he visited in summers as a boy, was also noted for the anthologies he has edited and is a popular teacher, speaker, and reader of his own poems.
Born in 1928, Hall grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. The Hall household was marked by a volatile father and a mother who was “steadier, maybe with more access to depths because there was less continual surface,” as Hall explained in an essay for Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS). “To her I owe my fires, to my father my tears. I owe them both for their reading.” By age twelve, Hall had discovered the poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe: “I read Poe and my life changed,” he remarked in CAAS. Another strong influence in Hall’s early years was his maternal great-grandfather’s farm in New Hampshire, where he spent many summers. Decades later, he bought the same farm and settled there as a full-time writer and poet.
Hall attended Philips Exeter Academy and had his first poem published at age 16. He was a participant at the prestigious Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, where he met Robert Frost, that same year. From Exeter, Hall went to Harvard University, attending class alongside Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Frank O’Hara, and John Ashbery; he also studied for a year with Archibald MacLeish. Hall earned a BLitt from Oxford University and won the Newdigate contest for his poem “Exile,” one of the few Americans ever to win the prize. Returning to the United States, Hall spent a year at Stanford, studying under the poet-critic Yvor Winters, before returning to Harvard to join the prestigious Society of Fellows. It was there that Hall assembled Exiles and Marriages, a tightly-structured collection crafted in rigid rhyme and meter. In 1953, Hall also became the poetry editor of the Paris Review, a position he held until 1961. In 1957 he took a position as assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he remained until 1975. While at Michigan, Hall met the young Jane Kenyon. They later married and, when Hall’s grandmother, who owned Eagle Pond Farm, passed away, bought the farm, left teaching, and moved there together. The collections Kicking the Leaves (1978) and The Happy Man (1986) reflect Hall’s happiness at his return to the family farm, a place rich with memories and links to his past. Many of the poems explore and celebrate the continuity between generations. The Happy Man won the Lenore Marshall/Nation Prize. Hall’s next book, The One Day (1988), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. A long poem that meditates on the on-set of old age, The One Day, like much of Hall’s early work, takes shape under formal pressure: composed of 110 stanzas, split over three sections, its final sections are written in blank verse. The critic Frederick Pollack praised the book as possibly “the last masterpiece of American Modernism. Any poet who seeks to surpass this genre should study it; any reader who has lost interest in contemporary poetry should read it.” Old and New Poems (1990) contains several traditional poems from earlier collections, as well as more innovative verses not previously published. “Baseball,” included in The Museum of Clear Ideas (1993), is the poet’s ode to the great American pastime and is structured around t
His poetry explores the longing for a more bucolic past and reflects the poet’s abiding reverence for nature. Although Hall gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. Often compared favorably with such writers as James Dickey, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Hall used simple, direct language to evoke surrealistic imagery. In addition to his poetry, Hall built a respected body of prose that includes essays, short fiction, plays, and children’s books. Hall, who lived on the New Hampshire farm he visited in summers as a boy, was also noted for the anthologies he has edited and is a popular teacher, speaker, and reader of his own poems.
Born in 1928, Hall grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. The Hall household was marked by a volatile father and a mother who was “steadier, maybe with more access to depths because there was less continual surface,” as Hall explained in an essay for Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS). “To her I owe my fires, to my father my tears. I owe them both for their reading.” By age twelve, Hall had discovered the poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe: “I read Poe and my life changed,” he remarked in CAAS. Another strong influence in Hall’s early years was his maternal great-grandfather’s farm in New Hampshire, where he spent many summers. Decades later, he bought the same farm and settled there as a full-time writer and poet.
Hall attended Philips Exeter Academy and had his first poem published at age 16. He was a participant at the prestigious Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, where he met Robert Frost, that same year. From Exeter, Hall went to Harvard University, attending class alongside Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Frank O’Hara, and John Ashbery; he also studied for a year with Archibald MacLeish. Hall earned a BLitt from Oxford University and won the Newdigate contest for his poem “Exile,” one of the few Americans ever to win the prize. Returning to the United States, Hall spent a year at Stanford, studying under the poet-critic Yvor Winters, before returning to Harvard to join the prestigious Society of Fellows. It was there that Hall assembled Exiles and Marriages, a tightly-structured collection crafted in rigid rhyme and meter. In 1953, Hall also became the poetry editor of the Paris Review, a position he held until 1961. In 1957 he took a position as assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he remained until 1975. While at Michigan, Hall met the young Jane Kenyon. They later married and, when Hall’s grandmother, who owned Eagle Pond Farm, passed away, bought the farm, left teaching, and moved there together. The collections Kicking the Leaves (1978) and The Happy Man (1986) reflect Hall’s happiness at his return to the family farm, a place rich with memories and links to his past. Many of the poems explore and celebrate the continuity between generations. The Happy Man won the Lenore Marshall/Nation Prize. Hall’s next book, The One Day (1988), won the National Book Critics Circle Award. A long poem that meditates on the on-set of old age, The One Day, like much of Hall’s early work, takes shape under formal pressure: composed of 110 stanzas, split over three sections, its final sections are written in blank verse. The critic Frederick Pollack praised the book as possibly “the last masterpiece of American Modernism. Any poet who seeks to surpass this genre should study it; any reader who has lost interest in contemporary poetry should read it.” Old and New Poems (1990) contains several traditional poems from earlier collections, as well as more innovative verses not previously published. “Baseball,” included in The Museum of Clear Ideas (1993), is the poet’s ode to the great American pastime and is structured around t
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September 5, 2020
A mix of good, blasé, and boring. Some Dickinson and Silverstein. A taste of Emerson, Frost, Eliot, Cumings, and Seuss. Along with some random stuff that doesn't show much talent. Illustrations are adequate, but nothing stands out.
May 18, 2021
I read this with my daughter as part of her 4th grade curriculum.
December 11, 2023
What a delightful set of poems, many of which I had read before. This collection is wonderful, and the vintage illustrations make it even more of a pleasure to read through. There are some poems in here that I did not know, but sounded familiar, i.e the poem on which Little Orphan Annie and the Annie-on Broadway-then-movie phenomenon were based. Interestingly, this book (which I bought used) was removed from circulation in the Montgomery County public library system. At first I thought this might be because the book includes poems by Native and African Americans. Thankfully, it seems that is not the case. It seems this county is in Maryland, and I think it's more likely that it was pulled because it includes a poem by Dr. Seuss - so the opposite of what I thought and sadly with good reason it seems, but still too bad since this is such an excellent book of poems and poets.
December 5, 2018
1. Summary: This includes a collection of classic poems with a variety of different authors and poems from different time periods. Some authors included are Langston Hughes, T.S. Elliot, Shel Sylverstein. Some classic poems include "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out", "Three Little Kittens", "Casey at the Bat", etc.
2. This book of children's poems are great to read to children for laughter or before bedtime. The book includes classic poems and are written with literary quality. The authors do an amazing job at creating these poems and they are written well for children to enjoy!
3. This book can be paired with "The Oxford Children's Book of Poetry" by Micheal Harrison
4. "Put on your mittens, you silly kittens and you shall have some pie".
2. This book of children's poems are great to read to children for laughter or before bedtime. The book includes classic poems and are written with literary quality. The authors do an amazing job at creating these poems and they are written well for children to enjoy!
3. This book can be paired with "The Oxford Children's Book of Poetry" by Micheal Harrison
4. "Put on your mittens, you silly kittens and you shall have some pie".
June 18, 2018
What a lovely poetry book. If any classroom is short of poetry in their libraries, then this is the perfect book for that classroom. It can be used across any year group and Key Stage, but I have opted to class this as perfect to use with a KS1 class, due to the illustrations. It is perfect to use at story time or when reading to the children, as it allows for great and deep discussions with the children about what the illustrations are saying in relation to the poems. Younger KS1 children are also able to read the poems independently, or describe what they are seeing in the pictures and using that, what they think the poem is about. Great book to have in classrooms.
July 12, 2019
Not my favorite anthology.
November 15, 2021
Read over the course of two weeks to curate collection for 7th grade poetry project.
March 7, 2023
My child is curled in my lap, like a cat, choosing our favorite poem.
October 6, 2024
A nice read aloud for bedtime and great for classical education enthusiasts but I only really enjoyed the poems from 1910 and onward.
December 29, 2020
I have no idea why I am reading poetry.
I checked this out, then purchased a couple of poetry books for the Sigals and Mattsons. I need to package them up and send them out.
I checked this out, then purchased a couple of poetry books for the Sigals and Mattsons. I need to package them up and send them out.
November 5, 2015
Poetry
If you had limited resources but wanted to include some poetry books in your classroom or home library, then The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poetry would be a fabulous choice. Donald Hall, author of the Caldecott Medal winning The Ox-Cart Man, edited this collection which includes an amazing variety of poems. For instance, he selects not only classics, like “Casey at the Bat” and “The Night before Christmas,” but also lesser known poems, like “Eletelephony” and “Tall Walking Woman.” Moreover, some like “Castanet Click” and “Morning Sun” are very short, while others like Shel Silverstein’s “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” are lengthy, just like its name! The anthology presents a multicultural perspective as poems by diverse Americans grace its pages. In fact, the collection begins appropriately with three Native American cradle songs. The reader also hears African and Asian American voices as Hall moves chronologically from the 17th up to the 21st century.
Several poem could be used in the classroom to help K-2 students develop phonemic awareness. After the students became familiar with the poem, the teacher could read the first part and allow the student to finish the line of poetry. For example, in “Catch a Little Rhyme,” the teacher could read, “Once upon a time I caught a little ________________. I set it on the floor but it ran right out the ________________.” Rhyme bingo in which either pictures or words make up a board could also be played, using words from several poems including “The Folk Who Live in Backward Town,” “Mary’s Lamb” and “The Twins.” The detailed drawings on each page gently introduce this genre to younger minds. The drawings associated with older, historical poems also, as the editor notes, “help preserve a moment of the American past.”
Older students could explore author meaning through Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Fable” (of the mountain and the squirrel), John Godfrey Saxe’s, “The Blind Men and the Elephant” and T.S. Eliot’s, “MaCavity: The Mystery Cat.” They could also consider author perspective by studying the Native American poets (unnamed) and African American poets, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
In the preface, Donald Hall expresses his hope that “adults will read these poems aloud to small children and show them the pictures…and when these children start reading, they will continue to take pleasure in this book, speaking aloud the sounds of poetry-and learning poems by heart.” I imagine his desire has been fulfilled many times over as parents and caregivers have used this book to introduce their children to poetry. As a teacher, I will do the same. I gave it five stars because I experienced what the first lines of one of its poems expressed:
Books fall open,
you fall in,
delight where
you’ve never been,
hear voices not once
heard before,
reach world on world,
through door on door.
If you had limited resources but wanted to include some poetry books in your classroom or home library, then The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poetry would be a fabulous choice. Donald Hall, author of the Caldecott Medal winning The Ox-Cart Man, edited this collection which includes an amazing variety of poems. For instance, he selects not only classics, like “Casey at the Bat” and “The Night before Christmas,” but also lesser known poems, like “Eletelephony” and “Tall Walking Woman.” Moreover, some like “Castanet Click” and “Morning Sun” are very short, while others like Shel Silverstein’s “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” are lengthy, just like its name! The anthology presents a multicultural perspective as poems by diverse Americans grace its pages. In fact, the collection begins appropriately with three Native American cradle songs. The reader also hears African and Asian American voices as Hall moves chronologically from the 17th up to the 21st century.
Several poem could be used in the classroom to help K-2 students develop phonemic awareness. After the students became familiar with the poem, the teacher could read the first part and allow the student to finish the line of poetry. For example, in “Catch a Little Rhyme,” the teacher could read, “Once upon a time I caught a little ________________. I set it on the floor but it ran right out the ________________.” Rhyme bingo in which either pictures or words make up a board could also be played, using words from several poems including “The Folk Who Live in Backward Town,” “Mary’s Lamb” and “The Twins.” The detailed drawings on each page gently introduce this genre to younger minds. The drawings associated with older, historical poems also, as the editor notes, “help preserve a moment of the American past.”
Older students could explore author meaning through Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Fable” (of the mountain and the squirrel), John Godfrey Saxe’s, “The Blind Men and the Elephant” and T.S. Eliot’s, “MaCavity: The Mystery Cat.” They could also consider author perspective by studying the Native American poets (unnamed) and African American poets, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
In the preface, Donald Hall expresses his hope that “adults will read these poems aloud to small children and show them the pictures…and when these children start reading, they will continue to take pleasure in this book, speaking aloud the sounds of poetry-and learning poems by heart.” I imagine his desire has been fulfilled many times over as parents and caregivers have used this book to introduce their children to poetry. As a teacher, I will do the same. I gave it five stars because I experienced what the first lines of one of its poems expressed:
Books fall open,
you fall in,
delight where
you’ve never been,
hear voices not once
heard before,
reach world on world,
through door on door.
November 24, 2008
Title: The Oxford Dictionary of American Children’s Poems
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 96 pp, 1999
Audience: Children, ages 7 to 11
Format: Juvenile nonfiction (poetry)
Description: The Oxford Dictionary of American Children’s Poems is an expansive collection of poems about holidays, nursery rhymes, poems for laughter, bedtime verses, scary poems, and animal poems that were once forgotten treasures in American children’s poetry.
Personal Review: I really enjoyed some of the poetry in this book. I couldn’t believe how many poems that were able to fit into this collection. There is a diverse variety of poems that children will read and find a couple of poems that they will certainly enjoy. What really struck me about this book was the variety of the collection of poems. There was a Native American cradle song and then it had poems from the 19th and 20th centuries from famous authors such as T.S. Eliot. The illustrations for the poems were also quite detailed and showcase the poem. I especially liked the poems about animals such “The Rabbit” by Elizabeth Madox Roberts and “The Little Turtle” by Vachel Lindsay. I think that this book is a great way to introducing poetry to young children as the poems are simple but fun. Some of the poems rhyme and the pictures are a great accompaniment to the poems. Both parents and children will find a poem or two that they will enjoy and read to each other.
Citation of 2 critical sources:
Marilyn Courtot’s Children’s Literature review calls the wonderful selection of period art that accompanies each poem a visual and aural treat. This review was very effective in that it gave examples of poems from different periods and this showed how knowledgeable the reviewer was in poetry.
Margaret Bush’s School Library Journal review explains how each poem is presented in a large format and is paired with an appealing array of black-and-white and full-color-art reproductions. She also notices how there is strong sense of humor throughout the small quiet poems. I found this review extremely helpful and it gave me some insight on American Poetry.
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 96 pp, 1999
Audience: Children, ages 7 to 11
Format: Juvenile nonfiction (poetry)
Description: The Oxford Dictionary of American Children’s Poems is an expansive collection of poems about holidays, nursery rhymes, poems for laughter, bedtime verses, scary poems, and animal poems that were once forgotten treasures in American children’s poetry.
Personal Review: I really enjoyed some of the poetry in this book. I couldn’t believe how many poems that were able to fit into this collection. There is a diverse variety of poems that children will read and find a couple of poems that they will certainly enjoy. What really struck me about this book was the variety of the collection of poems. There was a Native American cradle song and then it had poems from the 19th and 20th centuries from famous authors such as T.S. Eliot. The illustrations for the poems were also quite detailed and showcase the poem. I especially liked the poems about animals such “The Rabbit” by Elizabeth Madox Roberts and “The Little Turtle” by Vachel Lindsay. I think that this book is a great way to introducing poetry to young children as the poems are simple but fun. Some of the poems rhyme and the pictures are a great accompaniment to the poems. Both parents and children will find a poem or two that they will enjoy and read to each other.
Citation of 2 critical sources:
Marilyn Courtot’s Children’s Literature review calls the wonderful selection of period art that accompanies each poem a visual and aural treat. This review was very effective in that it gave examples of poems from different periods and this showed how knowledgeable the reviewer was in poetry.
Margaret Bush’s School Library Journal review explains how each poem is presented in a large format and is paired with an appealing array of black-and-white and full-color-art reproductions. She also notices how there is strong sense of humor throughout the small quiet poems. I found this review extremely helpful and it gave me some insight on American Poetry.
October 2, 2012
I loved this book! As a young child, I always enjoyed it when my parents would read me poems, especially nursery rhymes. This book contains numerous nursery rhymes and poems I can remember reading as a child and I believe that is why I enjoyed it so much. The book contains poems by Shel Silverstein, Carl Sandburg, Ralph Waldo Emerson and many more. There are poems about elephants, fog, twins, manners, kittens, and little girls that don't take the trash out, just to name a few.
Each page has an illustration on it which are mostly beautiful drawings done in various forms. These give the children something to look at while they are reading the poem and are a nice variety of artwork.
This book would be enjoyable for almost any age in the elementary level because there are some harder poems, like MaCavity: The Mystery Cat or some easier ones like Mary's Lamb. The book has a wide variety of poems and almost any child can find one they would enjoy.
I gave this book five stars because I loved it and found it very nice and peaceful to sit and read such a wide variety of poems.
Each page has an illustration on it which are mostly beautiful drawings done in various forms. These give the children something to look at while they are reading the poem and are a nice variety of artwork.
This book would be enjoyable for almost any age in the elementary level because there are some harder poems, like MaCavity: The Mystery Cat or some easier ones like Mary's Lamb. The book has a wide variety of poems and almost any child can find one they would enjoy.
I gave this book five stars because I loved it and found it very nice and peaceful to sit and read such a wide variety of poems.
December 3, 2015
Poetry - This book is an excellent book to add to any library collection. The poems in the book are all child appropriate and are by famous poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, e.e. cummings, and Robert Frost. The subjects are very diverse so this book has a poem about nearly everything you can think of for children. My students love it when I read to them from this book. Their favorites include Jack Prelutsky's The Pancake Collector, Mary Ann Hoberman's The Folk Who Live in Backward Town, and We Must Be Polite (Lessons for Children on How to Behave Under Peculiar Circumstances) from an unknown author. As a teacher, if you find your collection of poetry to be a little thin then this book is a good one to have. There are illustrations to accompany nearly all the poem. You can use this book to teach about structure and style. It does encompass quite a wide range while at the same time engages students with poems appropriate for their age.
February 27, 2014
The book of American Children's poems shows a cover that looks like an old photo. With a vintage look it shows a young girl reading a book on her bed with more books surrounding her. The cover engages you because it looks like she enjoying her book and that you could enjoy the book too. Throughout the book are different poems. All poems show a title and pictures to go along with it. Each page has different spacing for the poem which makes the pages more interesting for the readers. The pictures are black and white and well detailed. The poems are well written and creative. I enjoyed how I could flip to any page and read any poem. I think a child would like this aspect of the book. This would be a good read aloud for a poetry lesson.
July 25, 2014
This would be a great resource for an elementary classroom or a family bookshelf. What I really liked about this collection of poetry is that there are many classics that all kids should be familiar with because of the later references to them in all kinds of literature and media. In addition to these classics, the author is listed as well as their date of birth and date of death where applicable. Some of the well known poems that are featured in this book includes The Three Little Kittens, Mary's Lamb, and The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving (over the river and through the woods). To see where these well known nursery rhymes or songs originated from would be very interesting for both students and adults alike. Illustration style very greatly throughout the book.
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October 9, 2013This book is a fabulous collection of children's poems by various authors. Some are very long and some are short. Each have a small illustration provided to draw the children's attention. I read a poem by David McCord entitled Books Fall Open. I enjoyed this short poem, the words rhymed nicely and flowed very well together. I can say the same for almost all of the poems in this book. Very fun.
November 16, 2016
I can't say I truly enjoy poetry but the boys loved this as a (slow) read-aloud. I did appreciate the variety of content, organized in chronological order from Native American poems to African American poets to familiar ballads like "Casey at the Bat" and on into the somewhat bizarre modern poems.
November 29, 2007
Nice variety over authors, time periods, cultures. It includes "Casey at the Bat" and "Night Before Christmas".
May 26, 2011
Lame choice of poems.
June 17, 2011
We didn't finish this one completely, but the kids and I really enjoyed all that we read. This is the kind of book we can pick up anytime and read a few pages just for fun.
July 15, 2018
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Hall, Donald
beautiful collection of historical poems to read to your children a good nighttime reading book
February 5, 2013
I love the poems in this book. There is a variety of poems from longer, newer, old, and short poems.
August 1, 2013
Notes:
too many 'dark' type poems for my taste
we like so many other compilation books better than this one
one Dr. Suess poem had us laughing out loud
too many 'dark' type poems for my taste
we like so many other compilation books better than this one
one Dr. Suess poem had us laughing out loud
August 13, 2014
A beautiful picture book with simple poems that the smallest child loves to listen to. Lovely poems and pictures here.
July 25, 2019
What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.
This is a diverse collection of American poetry to read aloud together.
A lonely me, a lonely you.
This is a diverse collection of American poetry to read aloud together.
July 1, 2017
Donal Hall, U.S. Poet Laureate 2006-2007, edited this inviting treasury of poems for children of all ages. Illustrations enhance the reading experience.
April 25, 2016
Great book of poetry with pretty illustrations.
July 27, 2020
A nice collection of children's poems and illustrations.
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June 8, 2022read for school in 4th grade
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