Francis J. Degnan
Armour, Richard.
A Dozen Dinosaurs
. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967.
A great find, it is in some school libraries. Twelve poems about dinosaurs, the best is Pachycephalosaurus!
Baurer, Caroline, ed.
Snowy Day: Stories and Poems
. New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1986.
The selections allow for a wonderful visualization of the winter season.
Bennett, Jill, ed.
Noisy Poems
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
A lot of alliteration and use of word representing sounds.
Bennett, Jill, ed.
Spooky Poems
. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989.
All types of creatures allow the children to really use their imagination.
Brown, Helen A. and Harry J. Heltman.
Let’s Read Together Poems: An Anthology of Verse Selected and Arranged for Choral Reading in The Fifth Grade
. New York: Row, Peterson and Company, 1950.
One of the few texts that stress choral reading, old but good.
Cameron, Polly.
“I Can’t” Said the Ant
. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1961.
Wonderful rhyme, let this text help develop a positive self concept.
Carle, Eric, ed.
Animals Animals.
New York: Scholastic Inc. 1989.
A good choice of animal poems, wonderful illustrations.
Cole, Joanna.
Anna Banana; 101 Jump Rope Rhymes
. New York: Marrow Junior Books, 1989.
Join reading and physical education, use this text to help develop an interdisciplinary approach.
Cole, William.
Poem Stew
. New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1981. Contains many fun food poems for the class to digest.
dePaola, Tomie, ed.
Tomie dePaolo’s Book of Poems.
New York: G. P. Putman’s Sons, 1988.
A good selection of modern and classical poems.
deRegniers, Beatrice Schenk, et al.
Sing a Song of Popcorn
. New York: Scholastic Inc. 1988.
Another good up to date fun collection of poems.
Glubok Shirley.
Home and Child Life in Colonial Days
. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
It covers most all areas of the colonial child’s life.
Greenfield, Eloise.
Honey, I Love.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1972.
No New Haven elementary classroom should be without this text. It talks to our children presenting concerns and situations they are familiar with in poetic terms.
Greenfield, Eloise.
Nathaniel Talking
. New York: Black Butterfly Childrens Books, 1988.
Another must book for your room. It has much the same emphasis as the above book.
Greenfield, Eloise.
Under the Sunday Tree
. U.S.A.: Harper Collins Publishers, 1988.
The poems describe the life in the Bahamas.
Holdridge, Barbara, ed.
I’m Nobody! Who Are You?: Poems of Emily Dickinson for Young People.
Owings Mills, Maryland: Stemmer Publishers Inc., 1978.
A good introduction to Emily Dickinson for young people.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.
By Myself
. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1980. Leads to the idea of daydreams and imagination.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed.
Moments: Poems About the Seasons
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. 1980.
An excellent collection of fifty poems that can be used in many different ways.
Hopkins, Lee Bennett and Misha Arenstein.
Time to Shout: Poems for You
. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1973.
Very usable in the classroom, includes the topics our earth, short thoughts and a time to laugh.
Jacobs, Leland B.
Poetry for Space Enthusiasts
. Champaign, Illinois: Garraed Publishing Co. 1971.
With this text you can use an interdisciplinary science/ poetry/ transportation approach.
Lathem, Edward, ed.
A Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost for Young People
. Owings Mills, Maryland: Stemmer House, 1982.
An excellent introduction to Robert Frost.
Morrison, Bill.
Squeeze a Sneeze
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1977.
This is a fun with word associations and rhymes.
Potter Charles Francis.
More Tongue Tanglers and a Rigmarole.
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1964.
This is one of my most used texts, children truly enjoy working their way toward mastery of tongue twisters.
Potter, Charles Francis.
Tongue Tanglers
. New York: The World Publishing Company, 1962.
This is the better of the two texts.
Prelutsky, Jack.
My Parents Think I’m Sleeping
. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1985.
The book presents an interesting situation that children can relate with and elaborate on.
Prelutsky, Jack.
Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep.
New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976.
Fantasy that many children will be able to enjoy.
Prelutsky, Jack, ed.
Poems of a Nonny Mouse
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Seventy silly poems.
Prelutsky, Jack, ed.
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children.
New York: Random House, 1983.
This is an excellent selection with something for everyone.
Silverstein, Shel.
A Light In The Attic
. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1981.
The two Silverstein texts are the two that my students have enjoyed the most, the subjects interest the children.
Silverstein, Shel.
Where The Sidewalk Ends
. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
Simply the best.
Sneve, Virginia Driving Bear.
Dancing Teepees: Poems of American Indian Youth.
New York: Holiday House, 1989.
An interesting glimpse of another culture.
Steele, Mary Q.
Anna’s Garden Songs
. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1989. Ms. Steele shares with us an appreciation of the things that grow.
Wallace, Daisy, ed.
Witch Poems
. New York: Holiday House, 1976.
Lots of fun especially at Halloween.
Watson, Clyde.
Father Fox’s Pennyrhymes.
New York: Scholastic Inc. 1971. This is a story in rhyme, can the class do this?
Wilber, Richard.
Opposites.
New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1973.
Many humorous verses with a special way of turning a phrase.
Withers, Carl, ed.
Favorite Rhymes From; A Rocket In My Pocket
. New York: Scholastic Book Services 1948.
Good text to have in class, many easily read poems.
Worstell, Emma Vetor.
Jump The Rope Jingles.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961.
Wonderful to use with physical education classes.
Yolen, Jane.
Best Witches; Poems for Halloween
. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989.
A very original and fun approach to Halloween.