Essay on Children's Poetry

Essential Children's Collection: Out-of-Print Poetry

Two respected children’s literature consultants recommend poetry for school and public library collections.

BY The Editors

Originally Published: January 01, 2006

OUT-OF-PRINT POETRY
 

Baring-Gould, William and Ceil. The Annotated Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: C.N. Potter, 1962.

Chapman, Cheryl. Snow on Snow on Snow. New York: Penguin, 1994.

Clifton, Lucille. Some of the Days of Everett Anderson. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.

Cohn, Amy L., ed. From Sea to Shining Sea: A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs. New York: Scholastic, 1993.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Jump Back Honey: The Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. New York: Hyperion, 1999.

Fisher, Aileen. In One Door and out the Other: A Book of Poems. New York: HarperCollins, 1969.

Lewis, Patrick J. Hippopotamusn't and Other Animal Verses. New York: Penguin, 1990.

McCord, David. All Small. New York: Little Brown, 1986.

Merriam, Eve. It Doesn't Always Have to Rhyme. New York: Atheneum, 1964.

Moore, Lilian. See My Lovely Poison Ivy, and Other Poems About Witches, Ghosts, and Things. New York: Atheneum, 1975.

O'Neill, Mary. Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Color. New York: Doubleday, 1973.

Philip, Neil. Singing America: Poems That Define a Nation. New York: Viking, 1995.

Stevenson, James. Sweet Corn. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence. Casey at the Bat. New York: Atheneum, 1995.


LITERATURE
CONSULTANTS


Sylvia Vardell, Ph.D.
Professor
Texas Women's University
School of Library and Information Studies

Bernadette Nowakowski
Director, Children and Young Adult Services
Chicago Public Libraries

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