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This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World

10 best books like This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World (Naomi Shihab Nye): Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, Forest Has a Song: Poems, The Bat-Poet, The Dragons are Singing Tonight, Insectlopedia, On the Wing, Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, Ojo in Oz, The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1932425128
There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of a slave name Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death,...
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 Bat-Poet
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0062050842
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

With...
The Dragons are Singing Tonight
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0688161626
An "excellent collection....Prelutsky and Sis...bring to life so many sorts of dragons: the large, the small, the ferocious, the technological, the gentle, the ominous, and the disconsolate. There's a `just right' quality to the verse that makes it a pleasure to read the words aloud. Their sounds...
Insectlopedia
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN0152163352
I am not big on insects but this book was so much fun to read. Many of the poems have rhythm. In The Army Ants poem it sounds like the ants are marching as you read the poem. Other poems are shaped like the insect or what the insect does and have rhythm.In the Inchworm you can almost see the inchworm moving up and...
On the Wing
AuthorDavid Elliott
ISBN0763653241
David Elliott’s witty verse takes flight with gorgeous illustrations in an enchanting look at fifteen avian species for birders of all ages.

Take to the sky to explore a glorious array of all things avian, from the tiny, restless hummingbird to the inscrutable horned owl to the majestic...
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...
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN0810943867
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.

I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
Ojo in Oz
AuthorRuth Plumly Thompson
ISBN0345337042
An avid reader of Baum's books and a lifelong children's writer, Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her writing career in 1914 when she took a job with the Philadelphia Public Ledger; she wrote a weekly children's column for the newspaper. She had already published her first...
The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
AuthorHayden Carruth
ISBN0553262637
I purchased a copy of this book before leaving for Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1974. For two years I lived in a mud hut in a small village on the edge of the Sahara, far from running water, electricity, or anybody who spoke english.

The Voice That Is Great Within Us kept me excellent company...
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,...
Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems
AuthorKristine O'Connell George
ISBN0618152504
Award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George, author of several successful picture books, now turns her attention to the middle school experience. The first year brings an array of challenges: making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework, changing for PE, gossip, school...
Among a Thousand Fireflies
AuthorHelen Frost
How can a firefly find the one, among so many? Exquisite photographs and poetic text evoke a sense of mystery and magic.

On a summer evening, just as the stars blink on, a firefly lands on a flower. Lights start to flash all around her — first one, then three, seven. Hundreds. Thousands. How will...
Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems
AuthorJohn Grandits
ISBN0618503617
An eleven-year-old boy named Robert voices typical—and not so typical—middle-grade concerns in this unique, memorable collection of hilarious poems. His musings cover the usual stuff, like pizza, homework, thank-you notes, and his annoying older sister. In addition, he speculates about...
Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems
AuthorEloise Greenfield
ISBN0064430979
An ALA Notable Children's Book, Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems includes sixteen poems that tell of love and the simple joys of everyday life, seen through the eyes of a child: playing with a friend, skipping rope, riding on a train—or keeping Mama company till Daddy gets back.

Each of these...
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,...
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
ISBN1402225172
A poetry celebration of nature, science, the environment, and the wonder of it all, from the Children's Poet Laureate The Tree That Time Built is a moving anthology of more than 100 poems celebrating the wonders of the natural world and encouraging environmental awareness. With a focus on the outdoors,...
Masquerade
AuthorKit Williams
Certain books are just shot through with nostalgia, to the point where all you have to do is open them, and you're transported back to childhood. Masquerade is one of those books for me, I had the great luck to have been living on an RAF base in the UK when this came out, and my elementary school class fell immediately...
A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems
AuthorPaul B. Janeczko
ISBN0763606618
Even kids who don’t know they like poetry will love this playful, visually accessible collection of thirty concrete poems—illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist!

Concrete poems startle and delight the eye and mind. The size and arrangement of words—or even just letters on the page...
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...
Sequoia
AuthorTony Johnston
ISBN1596437278
Standing tall above the tree line, Sequoia stretches his ancient arms and gathers clouds to him. He watches as days, seasons, years pass by. His branches are home to owls and choirs of frogs. Beneath his broad canopy, a world grows.
This is his story. Through controlled verse and luscious illustration,...
Dear Wandering Wildebeest
AuthorIrene Latham
ISBN1467712329
Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores.

Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble,...
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