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Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems

10 best books like Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems (Eloise Greenfield): I Am a Taxi, I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery, All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, My People, Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, Honeybee: Poems Short Prose, Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem, Poetrees, Ellington Was Not a Street, The Blacker the Berry

I Am a Taxi
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN0888997353
For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are...
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
AuthorCynthia Grady
ISBN0802853862
This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of American slaves. Drawn together through imagery drawn from quilting and fiber arts, each poem is spoken from a different perspective: a house slave, a mother losing her daughter to the auction block, a blacksmith,...
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
AuthorValerie Worth
ISBN0374403457
This is a lovely collection of very short poems about myriad things. There's a wide variety of topics and I was fascinated at the different ways of describing the things. Occasionally, the poem would provide a different perspective, such as how fleas see their world from the back of a dog.

We...
My People
AuthorLangston Hughes
ISBN1416935401
Langston Hughes' powerful and simple poem is brilliantly accompanied by Charles R. Smith's transcendent photographs. Each photograph illustrates the beauty, depth and soul of being an African-American today. From close ups of lined hands to the joy of a baby's giggle, the photographs span ages....
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...
Honeybee: Poems Short Prose
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0060853905
Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate.

Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another?

In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time—our loved...
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0061434485
Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents?

Jack Prelutsky has written more than a thousand poems about all of these things—and many others. In this...
Poetrees
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN1416986723
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his signature wit and whimsy. Featuring a dynamic vertical format that illustrates...
Ellington Was Not a Street
AuthorNtozake Shange
ISBN0689828845
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in the majestic paintings of artist Kadir Nelson, lived at a time when the color...
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...
This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0618616802
When Mrs. Merz asks her sixth grade class to write poems of apology, they end up liking their poems so much that they decide to put them together into a book. Not only that, but they get the people to whom they apologized to write poems back.

In haiku, pantoums, two-part poems, snippets, and rhymes,...
Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word
AuthorBob Raczka
ISBN1596435410
Play with your words! A brand new poetic form that turns word puzzles into poetry.

Part anagram, part rebus, part riddle--these poems capture a scene from a child's daily life and present a puzzle to solve. Sometimes sweet and sometimes funny, but always clever, these poems are fun to read and...
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,...
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN1402210485
Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet,...
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...
I Didn't Do It
AuthorPatricia MacLachlan
ISBN0061358339
What makes a puppy's day complete?

Swimming and then shaking water all over you. Catching "presents" for you and then bringing them inside the house. Rolling in your nice wool sweater. Snuggling in your lap.

In their second ode to canine companions, Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan...
Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
When you learn a poem by heart, it becomes a part of you. You know it in your mind, in your mouth, in your ears, in your whole body. And best of all, you know it forever.
From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for...
black is brown is tan
AuthorArnold Adoff
ISBN0064432696
Brown-skinned momma, the color of chocolate milk and coffee pumpkin pie, whose face gets ginger red when she puffs and yells the children into bed. White-skinned daddy, not white like milk or snow, lighter than brown, With pinks and tiny tans, whose face gets tomato red when he puffs and yells their children...
A Strange Place to Call Home: The World's Most Dangerous Habitats & the Animals That Call Them Home
AuthorMarilyn Singer
ISBN1452101205
Under the desert's cracked and barren skin, spadefoot toads are waiting for rain. In the endless black of the deepest caves, blind fish find their way. Even in the frozen hearts of glaciers, ice worms by the billion flourish. In this fascinating look at fourteen animals who defy the odds by thriving in...
In the Wild
AuthorDavid Elliott
ISBN0763644978
The stellar team who brought us On the Farm present a companion book evoking creatures of the wild in simple, clever poems and vibrant woodcuts.

From the lion standing alone on the African savannah to the panda in a bamboo forest, from the rhinoceros with its boot-like face to the Arctic polar...
A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems
AuthorDeborah Ruddell
ISBN1416942114
In a watery mirror
the rugged raccoon
admires his face
by the light of the moon:
the mysterious mask,
the whiskers beneath,
the sliver of cricket
still stuck in his teeth.

Take a lighthearted romp through four seasons in the forest with these whimsical poems....
The Odd Egg
AuthorEmily Gravett
ISBN0230014917
Like many infertile women throughout history, hapless Duck suffers from social stigmatization and low self-esteem. Even though the obvious solution, adoption, is emotionally satisfying to her, she continues to suffer the mockery and criticism of her peers, who deride the physical dissimilarities...
The Boy Who Loved Words
AuthorRoni Schotter
ISBN0375836012
Words. Selig loves everything about them--the way they tast on his tongue (tantalizing), the sound they whisper in his ears (tintinnabulating!), and--most of all--the way they stir his heart. And he collects them voraciously, the way others collect stamps or seashells.

But what to do with...
Bigmama's
AuthorDonald Crews
ISBN0688158420
Donald Crews, the Caldecott Honor artist and award-winning creator of Freight Train, Truck, and many other classic picture books for young children, writes of his own childhood experiences visiting his grandparents in Florida.

Four African American children travel with their mother,...
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