Brooks, Gwendolyn.
Blacks
. Chicago: Third World Press, 2000. An anthology of all of Brooks' poetry.
Ho, Mingfong.
Hush! A Thai Lullaby
. New York: Orchard Books, 1996. A picture book poem of the sounds of Thailand that could lull a baby to sleep.
Janeczko, Paul B.
The Place My Words are Looking For: What Poets Say About and Through Their Work
. New York: Macmillan Books for Young Readers, 1990. An anthology of poems with commentary about words and writing by the poets.
Myers, Walter Dean.
Harlem
. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1997. A picture book poem about the city of Harlem. The book includes dramatic collage-type graphics with a contemporary urban beat.
Neruda, Pablo.
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. New York: HarperPerennial, 1997. An anthology of odes and poems printed in both the original Spanish and in English translation.
Norton Book of Light Verse
. Russell Baker, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986. A collection of over 400 poems chosen to amuse and shock the reader.
Pinsky, Robert and Maggie Dietz.
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2000. Selected poems by Americans with commentary about why the work was chosen as a favorite.
Sharratt, Nick. A
Cheese and Tomato Spider
. Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1996. A children's flap book with opportunities to create crazy combinations of exclamations and pictures.
Van Allsburg, Chris.
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984. A virtually wordless picturebook with beautiful black and white drawings. Each picture is accompanied by a title and a sentence, but the story of each picture if left to the reader's imagination.