Some of today’s poetry books are only available used, or on Kindle. And others are so new. Such juxtaposition of the same feelings throughout!
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Whether building a ship from chairs and pillows, making a city out of blocks, playing with toys on the bedspread, or sailing a toy boat down the river to an unknown destination, the delights of childhood – past and present – converge in Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless verse.
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If you go down in the woods today
You’d better go in disguise
For every bear there ever was
Will gather there for certain because
Today’s the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic.
Vintage artwork and the classic Disney characters add a world of charm to these perennial Mother Goose nursery rhyme favorites
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Sailing off in a wooden shoe, Wynken, Blynken and Nod find sleepy time adventure under a luminous night sky.
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A bilingual collection of songs and rhymes that have accompanying hand and body motions.
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The simple delights in baby’s natural world—a bird, a fish, a leaf, a snowflake, a raindrop—are celebrated in the traditional Japanese poetic form, the haiku.
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There is nothing more important to a child than to feel loved, celebrated in this gathering of poems written by Nikki Giovanni. Selected by illustrator Ashley Bryan, who adds a visual layering that drums the most important message of all to young, old, parent, child, grandparent, and friend alike: You are loved.
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