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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
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The Aliens Have Landed at Our School
By: Kenn Nesbitt
Illustrated by: Margeaux Lucas
ISBN-13: 978-0689048647
Price: $9.95
Kenn Nesbitt's work spans the poetic universe from the mere silly to the imaginatively hilarious. By capturing rhyme and rhythm in the everyday life of school, he appeals to both reluctant and voracious readers. His rollicking poems add a touch of whimsy to Poetry Alive! shows.
Includes: The Aliens Have Landed
Grades 3-5
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archy and mehitabel
By: Don Marquis
Illustrated by: George Herriman
ISBN-13: 978-0385094788
Price: $10.95
First appearing in 1916, archy the cockroach makes a life of philosophy while observing the world through an insect's point of view. Mehitabel, cat in her ninth life, has found a way to enjoy every one. This constant cult favorite and a strong example of free verse serves students studying different forms of verse.
Includes: the lesson of the moth
Grades 6-8
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Barnyard Dance
By: Sandra Boynton
ISBN-13: 9781563054426
Price: $6.95
This fun, short poem is a great introduction to poetry and performance for younger kids. As they learn the words and perform the actions, they become the farm animals dancing about a room. It's a wonderful way to get kids involved with characters and actions as well as with rhythm and rhyme.
Includes: Barnyard Dance
Grades K-2
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Best Tales of the Yukon
By: Robert W. Service
ISBN-13: 978-0762414598
Price: $12.95
Robert Service captured the world of the Yukon frontier with poetry that captured its myth, wonder, and excitement. This chronological collection includes the colorful characters Sam McGee, dangerous Dan McGrew, and Hard-Luck Henry to name but a few. Through their tales unfolds a world of savage beauty and unforgettable legends.
Includes: "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Grades 6-8
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Casey At the Bat
By: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Illustrated by: Christopher Bing
ISBN-13: 978-1929766000
*** A Caldecott Honor Book ***
Price: $17.95
This amazingly illustrated edition of the classical poem captures the emotions of the poem in detailed woodcuts supplemented by newspaper articles and ads that reflect the time. This title is great for baseball enthusiasts and poets alike.
Includes: Casey at the Bat
Grades 6-8
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Chants
By: Pat Mora
ISBN-13: 978-0934770247
Price: $8.95
Winner of the Southwest Book Award and the Best Book of Poetry from the El Paso Times.
Includes: Elena
Grades 6-8
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Chicken Socks and Other Contagious Poems
By: Brod Bagert
Illustrations by: Tim Ellis
ISBN-13: 978-1563978616
Price: $9.95
This collection of twenty-two poems will delight and amuse with whimsical rhymes sometimes without reason. Brod Bagert writes verse that is fun to perform because as it touches on the experiences of children in their everyday lives. This book serves as an excellent gateway to capturing students' imaginations.
Includes: Yesterday's Magnolia, The Time I Learned to Ride My Bike
Grades K-2
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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
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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
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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
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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 Two
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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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
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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 Two
Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987
By: Octavio Paz
Edited and translated by: Eliot Weinberger
ISBN-13: 978-0811211734
Price: $23.95
The bilingual collection contains the best of Paz's work, many with new translations. Showing the range of Paz's work while maintaining the breadth of his style, this wonderful anthology will appeal to English and Spanish speakers alike. Since it provides the poetic text in both languages, it also serves as an excellent resource for those looking for performance ideas.
Includes: Between What I see and What I Say: Poem for Roman Jakobsen"
Grades 6-8, 9-12
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Color Me a Rhyme: Nature Poems for Young People
By: Jane Yolen
Photos by: Jason Stemple
ISBN-13: 978-1563978920
Price: $9.95
Imaginatively conceived and elegantly executed.Booklist, starred review ****
As a favorite poet within the Poetry Alive! repertoire, Jane Yolen continues to write words that inspire. This book captures the emotions that lie within the colors and images of nature. It is a compelling, evocative book that may be used as a link to the Poetry Alive! experience as well as a jump-start for creative writing projects.
Includes: Crayons: A Rainbow Poem
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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
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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.
Includes: Words Free as Confetti, Cloud Dragons
Grades 6-8
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Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up in the United States
Edited by: Lori M. Carlson
ISBN-13: 978-0805031355
Price: $16.95
This powerful collection includes poems in both Spanish and English with rhyme, rhythm, and sounds that capture the glory and pain if being Latino American. This is a wonderful addition to those who serve a bilingual population because many of the poems appear in both English and Spanish.
Includes: "The Calling" by Luis Rodriguez
Grades 9-12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys
By: Charles Ghigna
ISBN-13: 978-1590780664
Price: $16.95
This is a great book for boys…and girls! Ghigna writes verse to intrigue those who may think "poetry is just for girls." The work here ranges from the world of sports to lunchroom hijinks. Ghigna has a knack to speak and write to all students in a way that engages and inspires.
Includes: What's A Poem?
Grades 3-5
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Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir - 1969-1980
By: Lucille Clifton
ISBN-13: 978-0918526595
Price: $17.50
As a poet, Lucille Clifton captures great depths of emotion with sparse rhyme and rich rhythm. Her language is accessible, her words, heartfelt, and her subjects form beautifully crafted, evocative stories of humanity. A beautiful collection and a great complement to a Poetry Alive! performance.
Includes: The First (Eviction)
Grades 6-8, 9-12
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Here Comes Mother Goose
Edited by: Iona Opie
Illustrated by: Rosemary Wells
*** A Child Best Children's Book
*** Winner of a Parents' Choice Award
*** A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
*** A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Price: $21.99
These beautifully illustrated collections of nursery rhymes will delight young and old alike. You will find the classics as well as those rarely heard. These collections give students wonderful rhymes to sing, dance, and perform. As a great addition to libraries for younger students and pre-readers, the books compliment a Poetry Alive! performance by giving students straightforward rhymes to share with others.
Includes: Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
Grades K-2
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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
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Hormone Jungle: Coming of Age in Middle School
By: Brod Bagert
ISBN-13: 978-0929895871
Price: $23.95
Brod Bagert focuses on the wills, whims, and wants of middle school students in this collection that captures a variety of poetic voices within a story of students caught in the midst of their important growing up years. Complemented by drawings and illustrations from a middle school in Gainesville Florida, this book may serve as a source for inspiration to jump start creative writing projects as well as hook students into the emotional texture in their own ups and downs. This book also serves as a wonderful partner to Sara Holbrook's and Allan Wolf's More Than Friends.
Includes: No lo Se!
Grades 6-8
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Hour of freedom: American History in Poetry
Compiled by: Milton Meltzer
Illustrations by: Marc Nadel
ISBN-13: 978-1841213972
Price: $16.95
The 61 poem collection takes readers through American history with verse and rhythm. Arranged in seven roughly chronological sections, this anthology travels through time to tell the story of the United States by marking the moments and the people who made those moments. At times an unflinching look at our past, it contains the poetry of our darkest times as well as the brightest.
Includes: O Captain! My Captain!
Grades 6-8, 9-12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jabberwocky
By: Lewis Carroll
Illustrated by: Joel Stewart
ISBN-13: 978-0763620189
Price: $15.99
This illustrated version of Carroll's wonderful classic serves up one artist's interpretation. This is a great addition to libraries and classrooms making the transition between poetry and art as well as those seeking to delve further into the world of Lewis Carroll.
Includes: Jabberwocky
Grades 6-8, 9-12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Linking With Literature
By: Cheryl Bromley Jones
Price: $6.95
For teachers who want to help their students read, write, and think about
literature. Linking with Literature is filled with models, methods, and
materials for immediate use with students. It adapts to any literary genre
and works successfully with students of all levels and environments.
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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
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Love Poems
By: Nikki Giovanni
ISBN-13: 978-0688149895
Price: $14.00
Nikki Giovanni finds ways to tickle our emotions and inspire our ideas. This collection delivers as she shares poems of love that span a range of tone and mood; all of them deeply moving.
Includes: Kidnap Poem, Communication
Grades 8-8, 9-12
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More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her
By: Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf
ISBN-13: 978-1590785874
Price: $16.95
This he wrote/she wrote collection of poems track the blossoming, blooming, and fading of first love told through the poems of two teenaged characters. Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf capture the drama, passion, conflict, and bliss in a story told strictly through the verse of these accomplished poets. As favorites artists within the Poetry Alive! family these two continue to write works that delight children of all ages. This book will serve as an excellent complement to a Poetry Alive! performance and inspire students to put their own thoughts into verse. This book also serves as a wonderful partner to Brod Bagert's Hormone Jungle.
Includes: Veggie Panini Is the Answer To Everything
Grades 6-8
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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
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My Parents Think I'm Sleeping
By: Jack Prelutsky
Pictures by: Yossi Abolafia
ISBN-13: 978-0688140281
Price: $3.99
The verses in Jack Prelutsky's book highlight the ups and downs of bedtime. The questions, thoughts, and ponderings will help children settle into sleep through the wonder of poetry. As a wonderful accompaniment to our show, it will help all understand the range of feelings a few thoughtful words may inspire.
Includes: What Happens To the Colors?
Grades K-2
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My Very First Mother Goose
Edited by: Iona Opie
Illustrated by: Rosemary Wells
*** A Child Best Children's Book
*** Winner of a Parents' Choice Award
*** A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
*** A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Price: $21.99
These beautifully illustrated collections of nursery rhymes will delight young and old alike. You will find the classics as well as those rarely heard. These collections give students wonderful rhymes to sing, dance, and perform. As a great addition to libraries for younger students and pre-readers, the books compliment a Poetry Alive! performance by giving students straightforward rhymes to share with others.
Includes: Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, Jack & Jill, Little Jack Horner, Little Boy Blue, Jack Be Nimble, & Hey! Diddle Diddle
Grades K-2
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Neon Vernacular
By: Yusef Komunyakaa
ISBN-13: 978-0819512116
Price: $15.95
With a voice of deep beauty and rich complexity, Yusef Komunyakaa brings us a volume that spans his career as an artist. This volume of verse, which is highly recommended by Library journal, stands as the work of a modern poet as he responds to history, the world, and his sense of self in the midst of experience. It's an excellent addition to a high school library.
Includes: Camouflaging the Chimera, Monsoon Season
Grades 9-12
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New Found Land
A novel by Allan Wolf
ISBN-13: 978-0763621131
Price: $18.99
Allan Wolf, a great friend and fan of Poetry Alive!, has written a compelling, insightful story of the courageous Americans who set out with Lewis and Clark. Told in a poetic format, the omniscient eyes of Seaman (or Oolum), Lewis' Newfoundland dog, oversees all. It's a great introduction to the journeys of Lewis and Clark as well as a reminder of the power of poetry to tell a story.
Grades 6-8, 9-12
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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
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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
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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
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Rainbows Are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg
By: Carl Sandburg
Selected by: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Wood Engravings by: Fritz Eichenberg
ISBN-13: 978-0152654818
Price: $13.00
As one of America's great writers, Carl Sandburg is remembered for writing verse that tells the story of the American spirit. This collection delivers seventy of his poems grouping them together in six sections headed by Sandburg's own definitions of poetry. It's a well-rounded introduction to the quality and depth of Sandburg's work.
Includes: Grass,
Fog,
Phizzog,
Little girl Be Careful What You Say,
Buffalo Dusk,
Arithmetic
Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
By: Langston Hughes
ISBN-10: 0-67972818X
Price: $13.95
This collection of poems contains works that Langston Hughes selected from several of his works. A classic selection selected by a classical poet.
Includes: Daybreak in Alabama, Mother to Son, Madam and the Rent Man, Life is Fine, Poem, The Dream Keeper, Harlem (A Dream Deferred )
Grades 6-8, 9-12
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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
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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
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Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems
By Kristine O'Connell George
Illustrated by: Debbie Tilley
ISBN-13: 978-0618152506
Price: $14.00
Kristine O'Connell George captures the excitement and confusion, joy and tragedy of middle school through the eyes and voice of an unnamed female protagonist. Through a wide variety of poetic forms, readers will experience the most mundane of middle school moments to the most thrilling. As an excellent supplement to a Poetry Alive! performance, this book will enthrall readers as they make connections between the performance, the poetry, and their own lives.
Includes: Which Lunch Table
Grades 6-8
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The Place My Words Are Looking For
Selected by: Paul B. Janeczko
ISBN-13: 978-0027476712
Price: $18.95
This book captures the inspiration behind the verse as poets share their own thoughts, anecdotes, and memories as well as their poetry. Thirty-nine poets share pieces of themselves in this collection that will easily supplement the Poetry Alive! performance as a jumpstart for both creative writing and performance activities.
Includes: Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye
Grades 6-8
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These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN-13: 978-0811212731
Price: $15.99
Ferlinghetti's evocative poetry captures the imagination and ignites the mind. His work, often included with the Beat Poets, spans decades and continues to have a lasting impact on high school audiences. This collection includes poem culled from 12 previous volumes plus 50 new works. It's a wonderful addition to a high school collection.
Includes: Constantly Risking Absurdity
Grades 9-12
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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
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Transcircularities
By: Quincy Troupe
ISBN-13: 978-1566891356
Price: $20.00
This collection of new and selected poems capture Troupe's rhyme and rhythm in an evocative jazz dance of words. Troupe's poetry is ripe with imagery and style that beg to be read and performed. As a new addition to the Poetry Alive! archive of poet's Quincy Troupe work serves as well as captures the imagination.
Includes: "Forty-One Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah"
Grades 6-8
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Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast
By: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrated by: Arnold Lobel
ISBN-13: 978-0688115692
Price: $5.99
"In an intriguing combination of fact with rollicking rhyme schemes and full-page portraits, the dinosaurs are rejuvenated once again to amuse and amaze their devoted fans....These poems are readable, quotable, and unforgettable....A wonderful book to savor—again and again."—Horn Book.
Includes: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Grades K-2
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Way To Go!: Sports Poems
By: Lillian Morrison
Illustrated by: Susan Spellman
ISBN-13: 978-1590784815
Price: $9.95
A fine blend of poetry and art that celebrates the joy and excitement of sports. -- School Library Journal
Both action packed and lyrical, the poems in this book capture the excitement, joy, and poetry of the athletic world. Lillian Morrison covers sports as diverse as basketball and surfing, snowboarding and baseball as she appeals to those who love activity. The vocabulary, action, rhythm, and style complement the Poetry Alive! show as readers feel the excitement of performance reflected through the written word.
Includes: The Women's 400 Meters
Grades 6-8
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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
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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
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You Read To Me, I'll Read To You
By Mary Ann Hoberman
Illustrated by: Michael Emberley
ISBN-13: 978-0316013161
Price: $15.95
This book was written in two voices in order to encourage young children to read along with adults. Hoberman's use of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition invite readers to join along in the fun in this wonderful collection of poetic stories. The stories appear as beautifully scripted works written to share.
Includes: The End
Grades K-2
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