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10 best books like Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (Nikki Giovanni): Black Cat, Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes, Forest Has a Song: Poems, The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry, Dancing in the Wings, Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart, Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry, A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play, The Blacker the Berry

Black Cat
AuthorChristopher Myers
ISBN0590033751
"Black Cat" by Christopher Myers narrates the whereabouts of a stray cat in a big city repeatedly asking, "black cat, black cat...where's your home?" Finally, after a montage of poetic lines the cat responds "anywhere I roam." The narration is poetic and utilizes metaphors that can only be understood...
Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1402718454
Sterling proudly announces an exciting and vibrant addition to Poetry for Young People: The first African-American themed book in the series, featuring the poems of the extraordinary Langston Hughes. Edited by the two leading experts on Hughes’s work, and illustrated by the brilliant Benny Andrews,...
Forest Has a Song: Poems
AuthorAmy Ludwig VanDerwater
ISBN0618843493
A spider is a “never-tangling dangling spinner / knitting angles, trapping dinner.” A tree frog proposes, “Marry me. Please marry me… / Pick me now. / Make me your choice. / I’m one great frog / with one strong voice.” VanDerwater lets the denizens of the forest speak for themselves in twenty-six...
The Bill Martin Jr Big Book of Poetry
AuthorBill Martin Jr.
ISBN1416939717
The definitive anthology of children's poetry, collected by a beloved author Years in the making, this full-color treasury contains nearly two hundred poems, all of them handpicked by Bill Martin Jr. Traditional children's poems are presented alongside contemporary pieces, and the collection...
Dancing in the Wings
AuthorDebbie Allen
ISBN0803725019
Sassy worries that her too-large feet, too-long legs, and even her big mouth will keep her from her dream of becoming a star ballerina. So for now she's just dancing in the wings, watching from behind the curtain, and hoping that one day it will be her turn to shimmer in the spotlight. When the director of...
Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems
AuthorGeorgia Heard
ISBN1596432209
TRY THIS AT HOME. Poems to inspire young readers.

From Eileen Spinelli's many goodbyes to summer at the shore, to Avis Harley's catalog of ways to say hello across the globe, to a close look at the birds and animals outside Valiska Gregory's window in winter…Georgia Heard has collected list...
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
AuthorVera B. Williams
ISBN0060571829
This book of poetry is about how two sisters deal with the loss of having their father go to jail. The father goes to jail because he forged a check from his former employer. Amber and Essie find comfort in each other and they take care of each other. The poem "Best Sandwich" tells about how the sister cuddle...
Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0618448942
I hesitated to assign a star rating to this book as I didn't even read all of it. Much as I wanted to love this book, I just found it frustrating. The concrete poetry, while interesting, is presented in such a way that I found it very hard and annoying to read--in the grass, in the clouds, in the trees, all over...
A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play
AuthorMarilyn Singer
ISBN0547124937
A paean to play from an award-winning poet and a New York Times best-selling illustrator.  The trappings of childhood change from generation to generation, but there are some timeless activities that every kid loves. Marilyn Singer and LeUyen Pham celebrate these universal types of play, from organized...
The Blacker the Berry
AuthorJoyce Carol Thomas
ISBN0060253754
Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous poetry collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many shades of...
Chess Rumble
AuthorG. Neri
ISBN1584302798
Three moves is all it takes to change the outcome of the game.

In Marcus's world, battles are fought everyday on the street, at home, and in school. Angered by his sister's death and his father's absence, and pushed to the brink by a bullying classmate, Marcus fights back with his fists.

One...
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms
AuthorPaul B. Janeczko
ISBN0763606626
From the simplest couplet to the mind-boggling pantoum, the award-winning team behind A POKE IN THE I shows us the many fascinating ways poetic forms take shape.


Please
Open this book for something
Extraordinary.
Twenty-nine different poetic forms await you
Inside...
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers
AuthorJavaka Steptoe
ISBN1584300167
In this intergenerational collection of poetry by new and established African American writers, fatherhood is celebrated with honor, humor, and grace. Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson,...
Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems)
AuthorLinda Sue Park
ISBN0618234837
A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this book illuminate funny, unexpected, amazing aspects of the...
Bronzeville Boys and Girls
AuthorGwendolyn Brooks
ISBN0060295058
This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the children who live together in an urban neighborhood. In 1956, Gwendolyn Brooks created thirty-four...
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0689853955
If telling the truth is the right thing to do, why is the whole world mad at Libby?

“Tell the truth and shame the devil,” Libby’s mama has told her. So whatever is Libby doing wrong? Ever since she started telling only the truth, the whole world seems to be mad at her. First it’s her best friend,...
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar!
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN1426310544
Named one of the Best Children's Books of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews!

"Add a little natural wonder to your poetry shelves. Because if we’re talking about the best possible compliment to your eyes and ears alike, few have as many perks and grand moments as this." —School Library Journal starred...
Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English: Bilingual Spanish-English
AuthorAlma Flor Ada
ISBN0688170676
In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simón Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them. Simple poems in Spanish and English, one for each letter of the Spanish alphabet, describe the wonder of the vegetable and fruit farms. Together,...
The Secret Olivia Told Me
AuthorN. Joy
ISBN1933491086
The premise is, Olivia tells her friend a secret, and the friend accidentally spills it, and it keeps getting spread -- and getting distorted as it spreads -- until the friend confesses to Olivia that she screwed up. The nameless friend narrates the book. It's a Coretta Scott King honor book for the illustrations.

So...
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0763631418
This exuberant celebration of poetry is an essential book for every young one’s library and a gorgeous gift to be both shared and treasured.

Sit back and savor a superb collection of more than sixty poems by a wide range of talented writers, from Margaret Wise Brown to Gertrude Stein, Langston...
The Neighborhood Mother Goose
AuthorNina Crews
ISBN0060515732
Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one favorite verses. Whether it's Jack jumping over a candlestick (atop a cupcake),...
Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)
AuthorElizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
ISBN0618120386
When Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) was first published in 1991, it met with an overwhelming response from readers and reviewers alike. Here was “a wonderful family story,” as The Horn Book Magazine said, “set matter-of-factly in an African-American environment.” Since then,...
The Great Migration: Journey to the North
AuthorEloise Greenfield
ISBN0061259217
We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children, to make a better life.

When Eloise Greenfield was four months old, her family moved from their home in Parmele, North Carolina, to...
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