Wind-in-my-hair Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I would like to include more poetry in our home library. What are your favorite volumes for children? What are your favorite individual poems for children in the 5-7 year age range? Is there one poet you adore in particular? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kubiac Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 * Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley * Baby Goes to Boston by Laura Richards * Custard the Dragon by Odgen Nash I encountered these all for the first time in the Big Golden Book of Poetry (blogged here: http://postapocalyptichomeschool.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-big-golden-book-of-poetry-85.html) FWIW, children's poetry compilations are widely available used (and they're usually cheap too) so just start collecting and see what catches your fancy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrale Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 I love Edward Lear. The Quangle Wangles hat really flows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reign Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Vile versus by roald Dahl. A. A. Milne poems Stardines fly high across the sky. Is a funny picture book of poetry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 FWIW, children's poetry compilations are widely available used (and they're usually cheap too) so just start collecting and see what catches your fancy! :iagree: I always liked A. A. Milne and this one amuses me: http://www.pitara.com/talespin/poems/online.asp?story=2 I picked up a fabulously horrible little poetry book called 'Ogre in a Toga' or something like that from a second hand shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Condessa Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 The poetry books by A. A. Milne A Child's Garden of Verses Ride a Purple Pelican Surprisingly, my four-year-old loved Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonia Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 The poetry books by A. A. Milne A Child's Garden of Verses We like the above as well. I'd also add the Random House Book of Poetry for Children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black-eyed Suzan Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I love Robert Louis Stevenson and A. A. Milne. Favorite Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets is a great collection. Favourite Poems for Children is a nice audio book. I love hearing professionals reading poetry. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 My DD likes Hailstones and Halibut Bones. We also pick selections out of Shel Silverstein. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystie Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Our favorites are A Child's Garden of Verses by Stevenson (illustrated by Tasha Tudor!) A Child's Book of Poems Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot and one of my favorites is a picture book by Jan Brett of Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakpak Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I love all of Jack Prelutsky's work. He edited this compilation that's wonderful: Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teneo Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Our favorites: Child's Garden of Verses Pink Lemonade by Annie Schmidt Animals Animals by Eric Carle Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris Tibbets Song of the Water Boatman by Joyce Sidman The Mother Goose anthology from Dover and we're loving the poetry selections from Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization The Owl And The Pussycat & Ooey Gooey are my son's two favorites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 The Fog by Carl Sandburg The poetry collections from Shel Silverstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walking-Iris Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 I've read Sing A Song of Popcorn to all three of my children. It's a treasured family book. The AA Milne books are also great for this age. As is any Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky. Mother Goose rhymes of course...don't forget those. An Edward Lear collection and The Practical Cats book from TS Eliot are great. Some individual poetry picture books my kids like are Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening and some Langston Hughes books. Joyful Noise is fun. A Treasury of Flower Fairies is loved by my dd. There's a series of books called Poetry for Young People. My kids like the Carl Sandburg and Emily Dickinson of those books. A Child's Garden of Verses is okay. We also really love the Eric Carle books a poster mentioned. Animals, Animals and Dragons, Dragons William Blake is fun and so is William Blake's Inn I could go on..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatHomeschoolDad Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Jabberwocky! 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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