Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | Poetry

Many poetry books can be found under J811.54

Going into grade 3 | Going into grades 4–5 | Going into grades 6–8

Going into grade 3

Baird, Audrey B.  Storm Coming! Poems.
Belle, Jennifer.  Animal Stackers.
Clements, Andrew.  Dogku.
Crawley, Dave.  Dog Poems.
Dakos, Kalli.  The Bug in Teacher's Coffee, and Other School Poems.
Dakos, Kalli.  Put Your Eyes up Here, and Other School Poems.
Florian, Douglas.  Zoo's Who: Poems and Paintings.
Frank, John.  How to Catch a Fish.
Graham, Joan Bransfield.  Flicker Flash: Poems.
Greenberg, David.  Don't Forget Your Etiquette! The Essential Guide to Misbehavior, with Advice from Miss Behavior.
Grimes, Nikki.  A Pocketful of Poems.
Grimes, Nikki.  When Gorilla Goes Walking.
Grossman, Bill.  Timothy Tunny Swallowed a Bunny.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.  April, Bubbles, Chocolate: An ABC of Poetry.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.  A Pet for Me: Poems.
Jackson, Robert Bradley.  Animal Mischief: Poems.
Janeczko, Paul B., ed.  Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices.
Janeczko, Paul B.  Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku.
Katz, Bobbi.  A Rumpus of Rhymes: A Book of Noisy Poems.
Katz, Susan.  Oh Theodore! Guinea Pig Poems.
Kennedy, X. J.  Elympics: Poems.
Kobayashi, Issa.  Today and Today: Haiku.
Larios, Julie Hofstrand.  Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary.
MacLachlan, Patricia.  Once I Ate a Pie.
Mordhorst, Heidi.  Squeeze: Poems from a Juicy Universe.
Polisar, Barry Louis.  Insect Soup: Bug Poems.
Prelutsky, Jack.  In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden.
Prelutsky, Jack.  My Dog May Be a Genius: Poems.
Ruddell, Deborah.  Today at the Bluebird Café: A Branchful of Birds.
Schwartz, David.  Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Animals Concealed--and Revealed: Ear-Tickling Poems.
Sidman, Joyce.  Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry.
Sierra, Judy.  Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems.
Singer, Marilyn.  Creature Carnival.
Spinelli, Eileen.  Tea Party Today: Poems to Sip and Savor.
Updike, John.  A Child's Calendar: Poems.
Wise, William.  Dinosaurs Forever.
Zolotow, Charlotte.  Seasons: A Book of Poems.

Going into grades 4–5

Ackerman, Diane.  Animal Sense.
Agard, John.  Half-Caste, and Other Poems.
Berger, Carin.  Not So True Stories and Unreasonable Rhymes.
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T.  César: Sí, Se Puede! [Yes, We Can!]
Brand, Dionne.  Earth Magic: Poems.
George, Kristine O'Connell.  Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems.
Hall, Donald, ed.  The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems.
Hayford, James.  Knee-Deep in Blazing Snow: Growing up in Vermont: Poems.
Hollander, John, ed.  American Poetry.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.  Lives: Poems about Famous Americans.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.  Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.  Wonderful Words: Poems about Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.
Janeczko, Paul B., comp.  A Kick in the Head.
Kennedy, X. J., and Dorothy M. Kennedy.  Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry.
Lawson, JonArno. The Man in the Moon-Fixer's Mask.
Lear, Edward.  Nonsense!
Lewis, J. Patrick.  Blackbeard, the Pirate King: Several Yarns Detailing the Legends, Myths, and Real-Life Adventures of History's Most Notorious Seaman; Told in Verse.
Lewis, J. Patrick.  Castles: Old Stone Poems.
Lewis, J. Patrick.  A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme.
Lyne, Sandford, ed.  Soft Hay Will Catch You: Poems by Young People.
Miller, Kate.  Poems in Black & White.
Morrison, Lillian.  Way to Go! Sports Poems.
Muse, Daphne and Charlotte Riley-Webb, comps.  The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance.
Nordine, Ken.  Colors.
Nye, Naomi Shihab.  Come with Me: Poems for a Journey.
Park, Linda Sue.  Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems).
Perry, Andrea.  Here's What You Do When You Can't Find Your Shoe: Ingenious Inventions for Pesky Problems.
Prelutsky, Jack.  Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant, and Other Poems.
Prelutsky, Jack, ed.  Imagine That! Poems of Never-Was.
Prelutsky, Jack.  Scranimals.
Shange, Ntozake.  Ellington Was Not a Street.
Sidman, Joyce.  Butterfly Eyes, and Other Secrets of the Meadow.
Sidman, Joyce.  Song of the Water Boatman, and Other Pond Poems.
Sidman, Joyce.  This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness.
Siebert, Diane.  Tour America: A Journey through Poems and Art.
Sierra, Judy.  Monster Goose.
Soto, Gary.  Worlds Apart: Traveling with Fernie and Me; Poems.
Sturges, Philemon.  Down to the Sea in Ships.
Weatherford, Carole Boston.  Birmingham, 1963.
Williams, Vera B.  Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart: The Story of Amber and Essie, Told Here in Poems and Pictures.
Woodson, Jacqueline.  Locomotion.
Worth, Valerie.  Peacock, and Other Poems.
Yolen, Jane.  Count Me a Rhyme: Animal Poems by the Numbers.
Yolen, Jane.  Dinosaur Dances.
Yolen, Jane.  Shape Me a Rhyme: Nature's Forms in Poetry.