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Top 100 Poetry Books

This is Just to Sayby Joyce Sidman
Here’s a Little Poemcompiled by Jane Yolen
Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadowby Joyce Sidman
Least Things  by Jane Yolen
If Not for the Catby Jack Prelutsky
Random House Book Of Poetry compiled by Jack Prelutsky
Twist: Yoga Poems by Janet S. Wong
Poetry Speaks to Children
A Family of Poems compiled by Caroline Kennedy
Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico by Pat Mora
Come With me : Poems for the Journeyby Naomi Shihab Nye
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth
Where the Sidewalk Endsby Shel Silverstein
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes by David Roessel
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
Poetry for Young People:Emily Dickinson by Frances Schoonmaker Bolin
Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams by Janet S. Wong
This Same Sky by Naomi Shihab Nye
Honeybee by Naomi Shihab Nye
Insectopedia by Douglas Florian
The Llama Who Had No Pajamas by Mary Ann Hoberman
Wing Nuts: Screwy Haiku by Paul B. Janeczko
Eats: Poems by Arnold Adoff
Honey, I Llove and other Poems by Eloise Greenfield
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
Days Like This collected by Simon James
Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky
A Wreath for Emmitt Till by Marilyn Nelson
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc
Collected Poems for Children by Ted Hughes
Animal Poems by Valerie Worth
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

Talking Like the Rain, edited by X.J. Kennedy and others.
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You by Mary Ann Hoberman
A Kick in the Head by Paul Janeczko
Please Bury Me in the Library by J.Patrick Lewis (really, all his)
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka
Laugh-eteria by Douglas Florian (really, all his)

Seeing the Blue Between by Paul Janeczko
Imaginary Menagerie by Julie Larios
Feathers by Eileen Spinelli
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo by Linda Sue Park
Mites to Mastodons by Maxine Kumin
Autumnblings by Douglas Florian
Comets, Stars, the Moon & Mars by Douglas Florian
A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky