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Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers Booklist for Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers Black is Brown Is Tan, The author uses a story poem to share the daily experiences of his biracial family. ------------------------------------------------------- Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, This collection of rhymes is translated from Chinese and includes illustrations and rhymes in Chinese characters. ------------------------------------------------------- Clap Your Hands, Clap Your Hands is an extended play-rhyme that invites young listeners to clap, jump, spin, wriggle, pat, rub, and stretch. ------------------------------------------------------- Hailstones and Halibut Bones, Twelve poems, each about a different color, evoke feelings associated with that color. ------------------------------------------------------- Las nanas de abuelita/Grandmother's Nursery Rhymes, This book is a bilingual collection of traditional nursery rhymes, lullabies, and tongue-twisting verse from South America. ------------------------------------------------------- My Mother Goose Library, This Mother Goose collection contains two books, My Very First Mother Goose and Here Comes Mother Goose. Both books feature nursery rhymes such as "Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill," "Humpty Dumpty," and "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater," and features watercolor illustrations of Mother Goose and her furry and feathered friends.
Booklist for Elementary School Children Hand in Hand, Hopkins and Fiore present United States history from colonial times to the present through poetry, song, and pictures. ------------------------------------------------------- Harlem, Father and son team up to capture the "lilt, tempo, and cadence" of Harlem's streets and people in this story poem. ------------------------------------------------------- In the Swim, Through short, witty poems, Florian provides information about creatures who make their home in the water.
Booklist for Middle School Children Cool Salsa, Cool Salsa is a collection of bilingual poems that celebrate growing up Latino in the United States. ------------------------------------------------------- Lives, Through the poetry of Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X.J. Kennedy, readers are introduced to 16 Americans who have contributed to United States history. ------------------------------------------------------- Movin’: Teen Poets Take Voice, The New York Public Library and Poets House, a project that brings poets to libraries, collaborated to hold poetry workshops for teenagers. The poems in this collection were written by workshop participants and teen poets who submitted their work to the library’s Web site. Poets wrote about a range of topics related to daily life using a number of poetic forms and techniques. ------------------------------------------------------- Out of the Dust, In a series of poems, a teenager shares the hardships of living on her family's farm in Oklahoma during the Depression. ------------------------------------------------------- The Tree is Older Than You Are, This bilingual collection couples poems by Mexican writers with paintings by Mexican artists. Poems are presented in Spanish with English translations.
Booklist for High School Children Collected Poems, This book presents a biographical portrait of Robert Hayden and a critical analysis of his poetry. Also, this book contains an anthology of Hayden's work, which explores the black experience through themes such as dreams, mortality, nature, and travel. ------------------------------------------------------- Earth-Shattering Poems, In this collection of poems, the editor has selected 50 poems that register intense emotions among adolescents. ------------------------------------------------------- Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology Koch and Farrell have paired classic poems with works of arts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The result is a collection of engaging poems and beautiful art. ------------------------------------------------------- Words With Wings: A Treasury of Editor Belinda Rochelle pairs 20 poems by black poets with 20 works of art by black artists. For example, Langston Hughes' poem "Aunt Sue's Stories" is paired with Elizabeth Catlett's print "Sharecropper."
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