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
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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