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This entertaining volume of verse for the very young is the perfect introduction to poetry. It includes poems about everything that is important to children: animals, family, food - and some very good jokes.

Not everything in this book is necessarily good advice, and not all of it is sensible advice. (But if you take the bad or unsensible advice and don’t follow it, then it may become useful advice in its own way.) Filled with silly rhymes, witty wordplay and thought-provoking story poems, this collection will delight children of all ages.

The Seder plate is set and the pantry's filled with matzah - Passover is here! Author D. J. Steinberg is back with an all new collection of poems celebrating the joys of Passover, from singing the Four Questions to finding the Afikomen.

From the author of the best-selling children's book When God Made You comes a rhythmic, whimsical journey through creation - for little listeners who love science and wonder and the beginnings of all things. For spiritual parents who are looking for a different kind of creation book, Matthew Paul Turner's When God Made the World focuses on the complex way that God created our vast and scientifically operating universe, including the biodiversity of life on our planet and the intricacies of a vast solar system.

Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But today, he's recognized as one of America's founding poets, a man who changed American literature forever. Who Was Walt Whitman? follows his remarkable journey from a young New York printer to one of America's most beloved literary figures.

"Paul Revere's Ride" and other poems suitable for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades.

"The Pied Piper of Hamline" and other poems suitable for second and third grade.... 

"Casey at the Bat" and other poems suitable for fourth and fifth grade students.

A collection of poems suitable for kindergartners and first grade, read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti.

This book is a must-listen for kids and grown-ups who never really grew up. Be prepared to hold your nose as the Phantom Pumper strikes again. Stare in awe at the giant snail. Feel for Harry the Rat as he desperately tries to find a friend. And dodge the ogres as they attempt to snotify anyone nearby. Some of the characters are nice. Some aren’t. You decide! The Witch with the Wonky Broomstick is a great book to encourage youth to love poetry.

As well as writing Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote the perennially popular A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), a collection of poems for younger readers. Many of Stevenson's greatest poems were included in that volume. Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti recites six of these favorites including "Looking-Glass River", "My Shadow", and "Sing Me a Song of a Lad that is Gone".

The author of the Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear, was an English artist, musician, and poet. Today, he is best known for his "gibberish" poetry and especially limericks, such as those contained herein.

A rhyme for children to guess the meaning. The itsy, bitsy spider climbed up the waterspout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain. And the itsy, bitsy spider climbed up the spout again. Finger movements that match the rhyme are included. Spider facts include the importance of spiders to our world.

The complete rhyme of Mary Had a Little Lamb and it seems to be based upon a real girl by the name of Mary Sawyer (1806 - 1889). She brought a pet lamb to school. An uproar followed. A nephew of the teacher was visiting and wrote a rhyme about the incident. The Redstone School is now in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It is believed to be the schoolhouse mentioned in the nursery rhyme.

What's worse than Brussels sprouts? School...for Brianna Kiley, it's sitting through the monotony. Thankfully her classes are filled with jokesters, arguers, and the shy. There is never a dull moment in the middle school hallways or the cafeteria. Words on a Page is filling the "boring" days of school with poems and short stories. Includes Blorbs Adventures, by Brianna Kiley, and Rumor Has It, by Susan Kiley, a youth fiction series book.

Nascosta nella sua casetta una gran chiocciola se ne stava fuori pioveva tanto e da lì, lei ascoltava. Tanto tempo era restata e annoiata si sentiva di aspettare si era stancata e a dormire si metteva.

In this exciting collection of over 100 humorous poems by Ross Libby, you’ll learn about Dingbats, Whatchamacallits, Thingamajigs, and more. You’ll meet the Boy Inside and visit the Zipitty Zapitty Zoo. Just watch out for thought bubbles with claws and snakes that hiss at you! Poetry fans of all ages will find something to enjoy in what is sure to be a new favorite.

A journal of my life this year as I go about my life to church, to work, to teaching, to play, and to visiting friends. The first chapter is a story of the spring. The second chapter is like a sketchbook or a glimpse into a journal. There are reflections and prayers and wishes. The ideas from church are ideas I heard from the priests. It is really paraphrased versus a direct quotation. And some of the biblical quotes I used are used in the poem I wrote. The second chapter is about the summer of 2018 and about some of the things I went through.

If Everyone Wrote a Poem: Selected Poems by and for Curious Minds is really an amazing collection of simple yet rich poems, all narrated by two eager poets at the young ages of 11 and 6. In this poetry book, tag along with dinosaurs while learning their looks and traits, zoom around in space as you learn the planets, discover the many things that the year brings, imagine what the world would be like if everyone wrote a poem, and much more!

This audiobook features urban poetry.