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10 best books like Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) (Linda Sue Park): A Dazzling Display of Dogs, Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems, Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, Birmingham, 1963, This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness, Lemonade: and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word, Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems, A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms, Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat

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...
Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace
AuthorAnna Grossnickle Hines
ISBN0805089969
I can honestly say I absolutely LOVED this book! I really thought is was neat how the author made each page look life like and real I loved all of the different kinds of poems throughout the whole book. The use of colors were really great. I thought it was great how the author portrays and teaches young readers...
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0062014641
The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine artist Carin Berger, who herself conducted...
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...
Birmingham, 1963
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
ISBN1590784405
A poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing that served as a seminal event in the struggle for civil rights. In 1963, the eyes of the world were on Birmingham, Alabama, a flashpoint for the civil rights movement. Birmingham was one of the most segregated cities in the United...
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...
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
AuthorJohn Grandits
ISBN0618568603
A 15-year-old girl named Jessie voices typical—and not so typical—teenage concerns in this unique, hilarious collection of poems. Her musings about trying out new makeup and hairstyles, playing volleyball and cello, and dealing with her annoying younger brother are never boring or predictable....
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...
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...
Beastly Verse
AuthorJooHee Yoon
ISBN1592701663
Poetry and children belong together, and for a long time, the music and playfulness of verse wove itself through children's days and lives. Beastly Verse aims to help return the wonder of poetry to children's lives through sixteen exquisitely illustrated poems, four of which have the surprise and...
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....
The Uglified Ducky
AuthorWilly Claflin
ISBN0874838584
You may think you know the story of the Ugly Duckling, but think again. In the capable hands of his alter ego Maynard Moose, storyteller Willy Claflin takes us on a wacky journey where this Uglified Ducky, a hapless young moose, "blunders away" from his home, is mistaken for a baby duck, and endured endless...
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN0152053727
Now perhaps I am missing something with regard to Douglas Florian's illustrations because I have been reading Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings as a Kindle download. For although I do kind of and to a certain small extent appreciate the work that must have gone into the pictures...
Amazing Faces
AuthorLee Bennett Hopkins
ISBN1600603343
Quite wonderful. The illustrations are not a perfect fit to my taste, and 16 poems is not enough, but I do think this has a place in every school. My favorite poem is Jane Medina's "Me x 2" about a girl who is bilingual, and the picture reflects her pride in being able to "cry time two... try times two...." I'd...
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...
Rutherford B., Who Was He?: Poems About Our Presidents
AuthorMarilyn Singer
ISBN1423171004
Forty-three men with forty-three passions, but with one thing in common: a presidential place in America's history.

With her gift for unforgettable rhythm and innovative rhyme, Marilyn Singer brings the presidents of the United States to life-from Washington to Obama-and contextualizes...
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