In honor of National Poetry Month, I’m linking up all my poetry-related posts here today. I’m going to make a very optimistic prediction that I will blog every Friday in April about a poetry book we have enjoyed and then link up the posts at Poetry Friday, which is hosted around the kidlitosphere. We shall see how this goes. 🙂
- Picture books by Verla Kay
- Read Aloud Thursday–A.A. Milne Edition
- Several poetry picture books, including Oddhopper Opera: A Bug’s Garden of Verses
- Spotlight on Jane Yolen
- Children’s Classics: Poetry–a couple of our favorite anthologies
- Crossing by Philip Booth
- A Cold Snap!: Frost Poems by Audrey B. Baird
- Riddle Rhymes by Charles Ghigna and Jumpety-Bumpety Hop by Kay Chorao
- Red Sings from the Treetops by Joyce Sidman
- The Bugliest Bug by Carol Diggory Shields
- Here’s a Little Poem–another nice children’s anthology
- The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles by Maud and Miska Petersham
- some titles about ancient Egypt
I know I’ve missed a few titles, but this is the bulk of the poetry books I’ve reviewed. We have a nice little stack of poetry books in our library basket right now, so I’m looking forward to seeing how this little plan of mine shapes up. 🙂 I was also interested to see that Janelle @ Brimful Curiosities is hosting a Kids’ Poetry Challenge in honor of National Poetry Month, too. The girls and I just might have to play along! Check back on Fridays to see what we come up with!
This week’s Poetry Friday roundup is hosted by The Poem Farm.
Thanks for blogging about our Kids’ Poetry Challenge. Hope you do decide to play along.
Wow! Great links. I’ll have to check them out.
I didn’t know about the Poetry Friday to link to but I’ll have to link up, I had the same plan for this month.
http://supratentorial.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/poetry-friday/
What a lovely way to celebrate Poetry Month with your family…and sharing your past poetry book posts is great for you and us. (I want to see your library basket!) I agree…that Kids’ Poetry Challenge looks like lots of fun. Happy Poetry Friday! A.