Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry

9 best books like Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry (Jane Yolen): A Child's Garden of Verses, Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems, Big Red Lollipop, My Princess Boy, Dragons Love Tacos, Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles, Shiver Me Timbers!: Pirate Poems & Paintings, David Gets In Trouble, The Book of Mistakes

A Child's Garden of Verses

Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN	0689823827

Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad on foreign lands.

Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson...

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems

Author	Marilyn Singer
ISBN	0525479015

What’s brewing when two favorites—poetry and fairy tales—are turned (literally) on their heads? It’s a revolutionary recipe: an infectious new genre of poetry and a lovably modern take on classic stories. First, read the poems forward (how old-fashioned!), then reverse the lines and read...

Big Red Lollipop

Author	Rukhsana Khan
ISBN	0670062871

Rubina has been invited to her first birthday party, and her mother, Ami, insists that she bring her little sister along. Rubina is mortified, but she can't convince Ami that you just don't bring your younger sister to your friend's party. So both girls go, and not only does Sana demand to win every game,...

My Princess Boy

Author	Cheryl Kilodavis
ISBN	0615395945

My Princess Boy is a nonfiction picture book about acceptance. With words and illustrations even the youngest of children can understand, My Princess Boy tells the tale of 4-year-old boy who happily expresses his authentic self by happily dressing up in dresses, and enjoying traditional girl things...

Dragons Love Tacos

Author	Adam Rubin
ISBN	0803736800

This scrumptious New York Times bestseller has a whole lot of kick!

Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch of dragons to your party, you should definitely serve tacos. Buckets and buckets of tacos. Unfortunately,...

Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles

Author	J. Patrick Lewis
ISBN	0811846687

Spot the Plots takes the reader, along with two young detectives and their dog to figure out the stories that are being discussed on each page. The riddles, which are set up as poems, are interesting because they are of many various forms and lengths. Sometimes their forms are even part of the clues. The...

Shiver Me Timbers!: Pirate Poems & Paintings

Author	Douglas Florian
ISBN	1442413212

Arrrgh you ready for this jaunty collection of pirate poems and paintings?

Ahoy mateys—it’s time to hoist up the anchors and set sail with a pack of pesky pirates! In this hilarious collection of nineteen poems, readers will meet scoundrels, scalawags, and scurvy dogs (human and canine)....

David Gets In Trouble

Author	David Shannon
ISBN	0439050227

Caldecott Honor artist and bestseller David Shannon make readers laugh aloud in this next story about the troublemaking David!
"When David gets in trouble, he always says . . . 'NO! It's not my fault! I didn't mean to! It was an accident!'" Whatever the situation, David's got a good excuse. And no...

The Book of Mistakes

Author	Corinna Luyken
ISBN	0735227926

Zoom meets Beautiful Oops! in this memorable picture book debut about the creative process, and the way in which "mistakes" can blossom into inspiration.

One eye was bigger than the other. That was a mistake.
The weird frog-cat-cow thing? It made an excellent bush.
And the inky smudges......