The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

Selected by: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by: Meilo So
ISBN-13: 978-0679893141

Price: $19.95

This beautifully illustrated collection has 211 poems representing the best of last century. You will fid both old and new favorites in this collection that continues to delight children of all ages. Serving as a wonderful complement to a Poetry Alive! performance students can recall those that they saw performed and find favorites that they may perform themselves.

Includes: If a Bad Dream Comes - Siv Cedering, The Crocodile - Michael Flanders, The Girl Who Makes the Cymbals Bang - X.J. Kennedy, Since Hanna Moved Away - Judith Viorst, Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face - Jack Prelutsky, The Dream Keeper - Langston Hughes, Fog - Carl Sandburg, Hist Whist - E. E. Cummings, Keep a Poem in Your Pocket - Beatrice Shenk de Regniers A Poem Is A Little Path - Charles Ghigna, Robert, Who Is Often A Stranger To Himself - Gwendolyn Brooks, Running Song - Marci Ridlon, Sidewalk Racer - Lillian Morrison
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8

A Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated By: Eve Garnett
ISBN-13: 978-0140366921

Price: $4.99

This essential collection of Robert Louis Stevenson poems brings together poems loved ad remembered by children of all ages. This is a wonderful resource that continues to bring the best of Stevenson to many audiences.

Includes: Farewell to the Farm, My Shadow, The Swing
Grades K-2, 3-5

A Child's Introduction to Poetry

By: Michael Driscoll
Illustrated by: Meredith Hamilton
ISBN 13: 978-1579122829

Price: $19.95

Not just a beautifully illustrated collection of poetry but also an anthology that introduces students to the joy of many different types of poetry. Driscoll covers genres from nursery rhymes to sonnets, limericks to free verse in a style that is entertaining and fun. A cd included with this anthology serves as an extra supplement to the Poetry Alive! experience as students see poems acted out then get the chance to hear them as well.

Includes: Little Miss Muffet - Mother Goose, What Is Pink?, Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?), Shakespeare's Witches Chant (from Macbeth), I'm Nobody - Emily Dickinson, Life Doesnt Frighten Me - Maya Angelou
Grades K-2, 3-5, 9-12

Something Is Going To Happen: Classroom Packet

Price: $79.95

Includes: one Something Is Going To Happen: Teacher's Edition, 15 Something Is Going To Happen: Student's Editions, and a Poetry Alive's Greatest Hits CD - Volume One

Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Something Is Going To Happen: Classroom Packet

Price: $69.95

Includes: one Something Is Going To Happen: Teacher's Edition, 15 Something Is Going To Happen: Student's Editions, and a Poetry Alive's Greatest Hits Cassette - Volume One

Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

By: Maya Angelou
ISBN-13: 978-0679428954

Price: $24.00

Maya Angelou's poems grip our imagination and make us hope for better. This complete collection gives us the breadth of her early work including her inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning". This is a must-have collection for any library.

Includes: Life Doesn't Frighten Me, Alone
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8

Confetti: Poems for Children

By: Pat Mora
Illustrated by: Enrique O. Sanchez
ISBN-13: 978-1880000854

Price: $6.95

In this joyful and spirited collection, award-winning poet Pat Mora and fine artist Enrique O. Sanchez celebrate the vivid landscape of the Southwest and the delightful rapport that children share with the natural world.

Through language that resounds with the harmony of both English and Spanish, Confetti is also an anthem to the power of a child’s imagination and pride.

I say yo soy libre
I am free
free, free,
free as confetti.

Long-awaited by the many fans of Ms. Mora, Confetti is a treasury to be shared with children everywhere.

Creating Readers with Poetry

By: Nile Stanley
ISBN-13: 978-0929895703

Price: $23.95

Effortlessly incorporate poetry into your curriculum with the research-based mini-lessons and poetry activities Dr. Nile Stanley details for you. Discover why poetry speaks to the whole child and understand why the strategy of including poetry in your K-5 balanced reading program reaches struggling readers. Includes a CD of poetry performances featuring students and noted children's poets.

Includes: Bone Chart - Allan Wolf, Father William - Lewis Carroll
Grades 3-5

The Dog Ate My Homework

By: Sara Holbrook
ISBN-13: 978-1563976384

Price: $6.95

Sara Holbrook delivers another volume of fun, festive, and fearless poems about growing up. This volume focuses on school life with all its ups and downs. This revised edition includes old favorites as well as fifteen new poems. Holbrook is always a favorite poet for school-age students.

Includes: The Dog Ate My Homework
Grades 3-5

Don't Read This Book, What Ever You Do!

By: Kalli Dakos
Illustrated by: G. Brian Karas
ISBN-13: 978-0689821325

Price: $3.99

This fun book captures the funny moments of school life as well as the melodramatic. Containing not only poems, but also miniplays, this book makes readers understand why Kalli Dakos is a favorite among the Poetry Alive! crowd. She writes verse that is fun, engaging, and wonderful to share in performances. This is a great addition for those students who want tackle their own poetry performance.

Includes: An Ode to a Toe, I Gotcha
Grades 3-5

Ego-Tripping And Other Poems for Young People

By: Nikki Giovanni
Illustrated by: George Ford
ISBN-13: 978-1556521898

Price: $10.95

This updated collection includes ten new poems and a world of thought-provoking verse. Nikki Giovanni creates a world that celebrates while not glossing over the hard times. It's a great collection that has stood the test of time.

Includes: Communication, Alone, Kidnap Poem, Knoxville Tennessee
Grades 3-5, 6-8

Free To Be You and Me: Stories, Songs, and Poems

By: Marlo Thomas and Friends
ISBN-13: 978-0762413065

Price: $12.95

New York Times Best Seller

This wonderfully conceived collection of poems, story and song is back in publication and available for another generation to be touched by its message. Challenging conventional stereo-types, it's a great title to share with students as they take a trip through life's ups and downs. Poetry Alive! is proud to offer it as a wonderful supplement to our shows and a fine compliment to our mission.

Includes: My Dog Is a Plumber - Dan Greenburg
Grades 3-5

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems

By Eloise Greenfield
Pictures by: Diane and Leo Dillon
ISBN-13: 978-0064430975

Price: $5.99

This book celebrated its 30th Anniversary last year. It is truly a testament to the beauty and grace of this collection that continues to please readers of all generations. Greenfield writes evocative verse capturing the love and simple joys of everyday life.

Includes: Harriet Tubman
Grades 6-8, 9-12

If I Were In Charge of the World And Other Worries

By: Judith Viorst
Illustrated by: Lynne Cherry
ISBN-13: 978-0689707704

Price: $5.99

Judith Viorst continues to be a favorite poet within the Poetry Alive! shows because she write verse that both inspires and delights. Touching on the joys, woes, worries, and surprises found in growing up, Viorst delivers another classic with this title. This book greatly enhances the Poetry Alive! experience because there are so many poems that lend themselves to performance.

Includes: Mother Doesn't Want a Dog, Since Hanna Moved Away
Grades 3-5

Illustrated Treasury of Read Aloud Poems for Young People

Edited by: Glorya Hale
ISBN-13: 978-1-57912-289-8

Price: $14.95

Curling up with a good book is one of life's great joys-and it is never too early to introduce that pleasure to children. The selections in this elegant volume are designed to be read aloud in ten minutes or less, or to be devoured by developing readers on their own.

READ-ALOUD POEMS collects the work of the world's greatest poets, to introduce children of all ages to the magic and excitement of the form. The poems have been carefully selected to appeal to a child's sensibility, and are culled from such poets as Maya Angelou, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Shel Siverstein, and e.e. cummings. It is filled with brand-new illustrations, offering fresh interpretations of classic and modern verses.

Includes: The Tale of Custard the Dragon,
The Wind - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tyger - William Blake
The Eagle - Alfred Lord Tennyson
On the Grasshopper and Cricket - John Keats
The Children's Hour - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
Life Doesn't Frighten Me - Maya Angelou
The Pasture - Robert Frost
The Lobster Quadrille - Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
The Purple Cow - Billett Burgess
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth
Fog - Carl Sandburg
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Paul Revere's Ride - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Witches scene from Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Bells - Edgar Allen Poe
What is Pink? - Christina Rosetti
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
Sea Fever - John Masefield
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Inner Chimes: Poems on Poetry

Selected by: Bobbye S. Goldstein
Illustrations by: Jane Breskin Zalben
ISBN-13: 978-1563970405

Price: $16.95

This collection of 20 poems presents the joys and frustrations of creating poetry. As a simple, elegant book, this title stands as a wonderful addition to a collection for its sense of wonderment as well as its accessibility as a jumpstarter for ideas in poem creation.

Includes: Keep a Poem In Your Pocket - Beatrice Shenk de Regniers Poetry Time - Lee Bennett Hopkins Feelings About Words - Mary O'Neill Where Do You Get the Idea for a Poem? - Karla Kuskin Poetry - Eleanor Farjeon Inside a Poem - Eve Merriam
Grades K-2, 3-5

The Inner City Mother Goose

By: Eve Merriam
Illustrated by: David Diaz
ISBN-10: 0-689806779

Price: $16.95

Originally written as a form of social and political commentary in 1969, this book was reprinted in 1982 meeting with much controversy for its satirical look at urban life. This book offers glimpses into a world that is hard harsh and Merriam delivers meaning with truth that can only be found in poetry. This book is intended for a mature audience.

Includes: If
Grades 3-5

It's Show Time: Poetry From the Page to the Stage

By: Allan Wolf
ISBN-13: 978-1883731007

Price: $12.95

This is the perfect book to get for following up a Poetry Alive! performance because it contains the ideas, methods, and inspiration that inform our shows. Developed for elementary level, this title includes 26 poems scripted and ready for performance. It also includes director's notes and teaching ideas for those who want to take Poetry Alive Alive! experience just a bit further.

Includes: To Satch - Samuel Allen, Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright - Rosemary and Steven Vincent Benet, Sometimes I Feel This Way - John Ciardi, maggie & millie & mollie & may - E. E. Cummings, Some One - Walter de le Mare, Music - Eleanor Farjeon, The Quarrel - Eleanor Farjeon, Sunshine - Rose Flint, The Panther - Ogden Nash, Mummy Slept Late & Daddy Fixed Breakfast - John Ciardi, Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Eugene Field, The Base Stealer - Robert Francis, Solution - Leland B. Jacobs, The Little Turtle - Vachel Lindsay, Humpty Dumpty - Mother Goose, Little Orphant Annie - James Whitcomb Riley, Who Has Seen the Wind? - Christina Rossetti, Dust of Snow - Robert Frost
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

By: Paul Fleischman
Illustrated by: Eric Beddows
ISBN-10: 0-062018525

Price: 15.99

Newberry Award Winner

This remarkable collection of poems about bugs and insects is truly intended for two people to read aloud and enjoy together. The rhymes here also serve well as challenging and boisterous performance pieces. Paul Fleishman has captured the rhythm and movement of the creepy-crawly world with imaginatively crafted verse.

Includes: Chrysalis Diary, The Moth's Serenade, A Requiem, Whirligig Beetles
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Knock At a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry

Selected by: X.J. Kennedy and Dorothy Kennedy
Illustrated by: Karen Lee Baker
ISBN-13: 978-0316488006

Price: $12.99

Children of all ages will find something that delights and inspires in this title. The poetic sections are arranged topically as the world of poetry and poetic forms emerge from the classic and contemporary selections. A timely supplement to the Poetry Alive! performances, this anthology includes many of our favorite poets.

Includes: Dreams - Langston Hughes, The 1st (Eviction) - Lucille Clifton, In Just - E. E. Cummings, I Am Rose - Gertrude Stein, Mummy Slept Late & Daddy Fixed Breakfast - John Ciardi, A Word is Dead - Emily Dickenson, We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks, The Eagle - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sidwalk Racer - Lillian Morrison
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Let Me Be The Boss: Poems for Kids to Perform

By: Brod Bagert
Illustrated by: G.L. Smith

Price: $9.95

Brod Bagert understands the very wonderful world of kid-dom. His verse speaks to kids and inspires us all. The poems in this collection are great fun to read and wonderful to share. This is an excellent collection for those younger classrooms interested in having their own poetry sharing experience.

Includes: Llama - A Real Poem, Fancy Restaurants
Grades K-2, 3-5

Life Doesn't Frighten Me At All

By: Maya Angelou
Paintings By: Jean-Michel Basquiat
ISBN-13: 978-1556702884

Price: $17.95

Pairing Angelou's poem with Basquiat's abstract paintings brings vibrancy and deep artistic insight to this beautiful book. Both the words and the prints unleash an artistic life that will appeal to many children. This book may be easily used as a starting point for teachers integrating poetry and visual arts.

Includes: "Life Doesn't Frighten Me"
Grades K-2, 3-5

The Llama Who Had No Pajamas

By: Mary Ann Hoberman
Illustrated by: Betty Fraser
ISBN-13: 978-0152055714

Price: $8.00

Hoberman captures the silliness, the thoughtfulness, the delight and the joy of all children in this extensive collection. As a poet that we return to for inspiration and creativity, Hoberman continues to write verse that is both witty and contemplative. This wonderful collection serves as a wonderful source of inspiration for students and teachers alike.

Includes: "Permutations" by Mary Ann Hoberman
Grades 3-5, 6-8

My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry

Edited by: Arnold Adoff
ISBN-13: 978-0140374438

Price: $5.99

Twenty-six African Amercan poets offer fifty poems selected by Arnold Adoff in this collection that explores their experiences. A wonderfully constructed, carefully selected anthology by an insightful poet who continues to be a favorite among the Poetry Alive performers.

Includes: Dream Deferred (Harlem), My People
Grades 3-5, 6-8

The New Kid on the Block

By: Jack Prelutsky
Drawings by: James Stevenson
ISBN-13: 978-0688022716

Price: $17.99

ALA Notable Book
ABA Pick of the Lists Book

A treasure of whimsical rhyme that sometimes lacks reason but also pleases. Prelutsky is a favorite Poetry Alive! poet because he offers such rich rhymes for sharing and performing. This collection will serve any collection well but will be exceptionally beneficial to those looking for poetry to perform themselves.

Includes: My Dog He Is an Ugly Dog, The New Kid on the Block, When Tillie Ate the Chili, Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
Grades 3-5

Nothing's the End of the World

By: Sara Holbrook
Drawings by: J.J. Smith-Moore
ISBN-13: 978-1563971983

Price: $7.95

Sara Holbrook deals with life's little miseries and its greatest joys with wonderful finesse of rhyme and reason. For this reason she continues to be a Potery Alive! favorite. Her work speaks to us and through us capturing a slice of poetry in the midst of growing up. This collection stands as a wonderful addition to any collection.

Includes: Angry
Grades K-2

Poems: American Themes

Collected by: William C. Bassell
ISBN-10: 1-567650236

Price: $13.50

Not just a collection but also a primer on poetry. This is a great resource for teachers who have students in exploring the role of poetry and poets in their lives as well as the rich history of poetic traditions. This collection includes many lesser-known poems by well-known poets. It will serve as a great resource as an anthology and a reference work on poetry

Includes: The Double Play - Robert Wallace, The Little Turtle - Vachel Lindsay, To Satch - Samuel Allen, The Base Stealer - Robert Francis, Mending Wall - Robert Frost, The Flower-Fed Buffaloes - Vachel Lindsay, Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Cory - Edwin Arlington Robinson, Chicago - Carl Sandburg, Jazz Fantasia - Carl Sandburg, Women - Alice Walker, This is Just to Say - William Carlos Williams, My Papa's Waltz - Theodore Roethke, Lucinda Matlock - Edgar Lee Masters, Much Madness is Divinest Sense - Emily Dickenson,
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Random House Book of Poetry for Children

Selected by: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel
ISBN-13: 978-0394850108

Price: $22.99

Gives a taste of the best poets writing for children. Booklist, starred review ****

We are proud to offer this treasury of poetry that continues to be a stand-by in our office for reference and pure joy. Prelutsky has selected diverse and compelling poems that delight and inspire. As a complementary supplement to the Poetry Alive! experience all readers will find something appealing in this lively and lovely selection.

Includes: Mud - Polly Chase Boyden, Keziah - Gwendolyn Brooks, Mummy Slept Late & Daddy Fixed Breakfast - John Ciardi, The Base Stealer - Robert Francis, Foul Shot - Edwin Hoey, Dreams - Langstn Hughes, The Muddy Puddle - Dennis Lee, Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg, Buffalo Dusk - Carl Sandburg, If I Were in Charge of the World - Judith Viorst, This is Just to Say - William Carlos Williams, Dust of Snow - Robert Frost, I am Rose - Gertrude Stein, Me I Am - Jack Prelutsky, Me - Karla Kuskin, Accidentally - Maxine Kumin, The Little Turtle - Vachel Lindsay, maggie & millie & mollie & may - E. E. Cummings, A Visit from St. Nicholas - Clement Moore, Who Has Seen the Wind - Christina Rossetti, I Eat My Peas With Honey - Anonymous, Poor Old Lady - Anonymous, What is Pink? - Christina Rossetti, Witches scene from Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

Selected by: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by: Marc Brown
ISBN-13: 978-0394872186

Price: $19.95

This book contains more than 200 poems by well-known and beloved poets like Myra Cohn Livingston, John Ciardi, Christina Rosetti, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Louis Stevenson, Judith Viorst and Ogden Nash. It serves as a wonderful resource to hook students into a wide variety of poetry and a great supplement to a Poetry Alive! performance as students begin to think about performing their own favorites.

Includes: The Little Turtle - Vachel Lindsay, Five Little Monsters - Eve Merriam, Good Morning - Muriel Sipe, Keziah - Gwendolyn Brooks, Mud - Polly Chase Boyden, Robert, Who is Often a Stranger to Himself - Gwendolyn Brooks, Table Manners - Gillett Burgess, Ten Little Fingers - Anonymous
Grades 3-5, K-2

Reflections On a Gift of Watermelon Pickle and other modern verse

Compiled by: Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith
ISBN-13: 978-0688412319

Price: $19.99

We were very excited that this collection of modern poetry for middle and high school students is once more available. Spanning a diverse variety of poets and poetry, readers will find classical poets as well as the less well known; lighthearted verse alongside deeply profound. This sublime collection inspires and enlightens our shows and is one we still suggest to students searching for their own performance material.

Includes: How to Eat a Poem - Eve Merriam, Southbound on the Freeway - May Swenson, Fifteen - William Stafford, Lyllaby - Robert Hillyer, The Base Stealer - Robert Francis, Foul Shot - Edwin Hoey, Dreams - Langston Hughes, Resume - Dorothy Parker, Arithmetic - Carl Sandburg, This is Just to Say - William Carlos Williams, In Just - E. E. Cummings Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash

By: Ogden Nash
ISBN-13: 978-1884822308

Price: $15.98

This is a large collection of Nash at his finest and wittiest. As a wordsmith, Nash remains at the top of his class for turning a phrase or a rhyme to serve his own poetic purposes. This playful, far-reaching collection includes 650 rhymes, verses, lyrics, and poems categorized by general subject areas. You can understand why his work appears in so many of our shows!

Includes: The Dog, The Duck, The Hippopotamus, The Octopus, The Pig, The Rhinoceros
Grades K-2, 3-5

Something Is Going To Happen: Student's Edition

By: Allan Wolf
With Assistance from: Jim Nave

Price: $4.95

As an excerpt from the Teacher's Edition, this will help students with their own ideas and performances as they prepare for a show. It contains the scripted poems, a selection of unscripted poems, and the stages of poetry performance. It's a great resource for those who want to develop their own programming.

Includes: I'm Nobody - Emily Dickenson, A Word is Dead - Emily Dickenson, Dawn - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks, Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll, A Bird Came Down the Walk - Emily Dickenson, The Glove and the Lions - Leigh Hunt, Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe, The Blind Men and the Elephant - John Godfrey Saxe, The Eagle - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Fog - Carl Sandburg

Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Something Is Going To Happen: Teacher's Edition

By: Allan Wolf
ISBN-10: 1-883731038

Price: $9.95

Targeting middle and high school teachers, this book helps others produce their own poetry show as well as supplement classroom activities following a Poetry Alive! Performance. Included are handy scripts, director's notes, and basic ideas relating to poetry performance.

Includes: I'm Nobody - Emily Dickenson, A Word is Dead - Emily Dickenson, Dawn - Paul Laurence Dunbar, Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks, Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll, A Bird Came Down the Walk - Emily Dickenson, The Glove and the Lions - Leigh Hunt, Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe, The Blind Men and the Elephant - John Godfrey Saxe, The Eagle - Alfred Lord Tennyson, Fog - Carl Sandburg

Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Touch the Poem

By: Arnold Adoff
Illustrated by: Lisa Desimini
ISBN-13: 978-0590479707

Price: $16.95

A collection of poems about the sense of touch including a baby's foot in one's palm, peach fuzz on the lip, and the forehead against a cold window. Full-color illustrations.

From the joy of stomping through thick mud to the luxury of soaking in a bathtub full of bubbles, vivid poems and delicious paintings capture the wonders that children experience every day through their five senses.

Includes: Slow Slide
Grades K-2

Wham! It's a Poetry Jam: Discovering Performance Poetry

By: Sara Holbrook
ISBN-13: 978-1590780114

Price: $9.95

With a lot of whimsy and a bit of irreverence, Holbrook gives methods and permission for students to perform poetry with this book. Besides giving detailed performance hints, Holbrook includes over thirty of her own poems ready to act out. This serves as a great resource for classrooms getting ready to produce their own poetry performances.

Includes: Angry, The Dog Ate My Homework, May I Be Excused?, To Be, Wham-a-Bama One-Man Band
Grades K-2, 3-5

Which Way to the Dragon!: Poems for the Coming-on-Strong

By: Sara Holbrook
ISBN-13: 978-1563976414

Price: $7.95

You can tell that Sara Holbrook writes poems that speak to elementary and junior high audiences. We always find poems that help us communicate with rhyme and rhythm the glory and pain, and joy and sorrow of growing up. This collection offers even more magic. A great way to hook students into poetry by touching on the very ideas and feelings they experience everyday.

Includes: To Be
Grades 3-5