A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.

An expanded version of the nineteenth-century poem in which a small girl accompanies a star on a journey through the night sky, examining both heavenly bodies and the earth below. Includes music on last page.

Presents a new collection of poems, from both classic and contemporary poets, which are especially suited for learning by heart and reciting aloud. "From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for learning by heart and saying aloud. With personal introductions by former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman -- as well as her own time-tested tips and tools...

One hundred poems chosen specifically for memorization, a vanishing art. For the most part they are classics in rhyming accentual-syllabic verse. Among them: Kipling's If, Coleridge's Kubla Khan, Fitzgerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus, immortalized on the Statue of Liberty.

A collection of twenty-six nonsense rhymes, one for each letter of the alphabet.

A collection of 400 poems arranged in eighteen thematic sections.

Cats sleep on tables, chairs, sofas, in closets, in shoeboxes--all around the house.

When Old Mother Hubbard discovers that her cupboard is bare, she goes to a series of stores trying to find just the right thing for him, only to find him behaving oddly each time she returns.