Collects more than 100 of the popular author's poems, spanning his forty-five year career as a master funny-bone tickler and the bard of choice for elementary school children everywhere! Features a CD with classic performances by the poet himself. Listen as you read along with this book and CD set.

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away-- loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it -- that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.

A collection of key works of English-language poetry encompasses works that have been written over the course of six centuries and shares some of the selector's critical reflections from the past half century.

For this companion to her "New York Times"-bestselling collection "A Family of Poems," Kennedy has hand-selected more than 100 of her favorite poems that lend themselves to memorization.

In 600 poems by 145 authors, this book gives a cross-section of black American poetry writing in the twentieth century.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, songs, and the libretto to an opera that premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House to rave reviews. Millay infused new life into traditional poetic forms, bringing new hope to a generation of youth disillusioned by the political and social upheaval of the First World...

More than 50 poems and an accompanying CD introduce poetry with a beat.

A collection of poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon.

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.