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Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature

10 best books like Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature (Nicola Davies): Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems, Forest Has a Song: Poems, Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold, A Dazzling Display of Dogs, BookSpeak!: Poems about Books, Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph, Step Gently Out, A Stick Is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play, Pug and Other Animal Poems, Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart

Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems
AuthorKate Coombs
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea."

Admission: I have a great weakness for sea poetry. Like Melville's Ishmael,...
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...
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
AuthorJoyce Sidman
ISBN0547906501
First thing: there is a fox on the cover and a fox on each page and yet there is not a poem to a fox; why? OK, the poems are about animals surviving the cold winter in nature. They are good poems. Then on the side they give a block of text on how the animals actually survive the cold with facts. My niece loves the...
A Dazzling Display of Dogs
AuthorBetsy Franco
ISBN1582463433
This book was a very interesting read! It was a poetry book entirely themed on dogs. The illustrations are bright and colorful and the author/illustrator wove the words from the poems into some of the illustrations. Each page has a new poem to a different dog or dog breed. The words wrap in all sorts of different...
BookSpeak!: Poems about Books
AuthorLaura Purdie Salas
ISBN0547223005
A collection of wacky, whimsical poems about books and all the treasures they contain. Laura Purdie Salas, the acclaimed author of Stampede!, is back with another collection of wild and weird, wacky and winsome poems about all the magic to be found on a single bookshelf. In BookSpeak!, each poem gives...
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
AuthorRoxane Orgill
ISBN0763669547
What happens when you invite as many jazz musicians as you can to pose for a photo in 1950s Harlem? Playful verse and glorious artwork capture an iconic moment for American jazz.

When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched...
Step Gently Out
AuthorRick Lieder
ISBN0763656011
Stunning close-up photography and a lyrical text implore children to look more closely at the world around them.

Be still, and watch a single blade of grass.
An ant climbs up to look around.
A honeybee flies past.

What would happen if you walked very, very quietly and looked...
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...
Pug and Other Animal Poems
AuthorValerie Worth
ISBN0374350248
In the follow-up to the well-received Animal Poems, Pug: And Other Animal Poems examines a wide range of animal behavior, from the fleetingness of a fly sipping spilled milk to the constant steely presence of a powerful bull; the greedy meal of a street rat to a cat's quiet gift of a dead mouse on...
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...
The President's Stuck in the Bathtub: Poems About the Presidents
AuthorSusan Katz
Playful political poems about the penchants and peccadilloes of the presidents!Sure, William Taft got stuck in his tub, but did you know that John Quincy Adams used to skinny-dip in the Potomac? Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese with his wife, and Gerald Ford had his name changed from Leslie Lynch King....
Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems
AuthorJ. Patrick Lewis
ISBN0547513380
Is this poetry? Math? A brainteaser? Yes! It’s all that and more. The poet J. Patrick Lewis
has reimagined classic poems—such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Langston
Hughes’s “April Rain Song”—and added a dash of math. Between the silly parodies
and the wonderfully...
UnBEElievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN1442426527
The buzz is big for Douglas Florian’s new poetry collection about the unBEElieveably unique lives of honeybees—and the vital role they play in our ecosystem.

Come inside the honeycomb—a busy, buzzy, bee-filled home—and learn about the unexpected wonders of these tiny insects’...
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...
I Am the Book
AuthorLee Bennett Hopkins
ISBN0823421198
"I Am the Book" is a collection of thirteen different poems. These poems written by various authors, and are selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins. The poems in this book take you away into a world of reading with the language that is used. Each poem describes a wonderful trait of the world of reading. There are...
In the Sea
AuthorDavid Elliott
ISBN0763644986
A New York Times best-selling author and a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator explore life in the ocean with clever poems and bold, expressive woodcuts.

The briny deep is home to an enormous variety of fascinating creatures, from the dainty sea horse to the fearsome shark, from the spiny...
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