Suggested Poetry books

Walking the Bridge of your Nose / by Michael Rosen                                      J 811 WAL
Meow Ruff / by Joyce Sidman                                                                           J 811 SID
Water Music: poems for young children / by Jane Yolen                                  J 811 YOL
Fold Me a Poem / by Kristine O'Connell George                                         J 811.54 GEO
Wake Up House!: rooms full of poems / by Dee Lillegard                            J 811.54 LIL
Lunch Money / by Carol Diggory Sheilds                                                         J 811 SHE
Oh No! Where are My Pants? and other school disasters: poems 
     / by Lee Bennett Hopkins                                                                   J 811.008 ONO
Good Mousekeeping: and other animal poems / by J. Patrick Lewis              J 811 LEW
A Burst of Firsts: doers, shakers and record breakers / by J. Patrick Lewis   J 811 LEW
I Thought I'd Take My Rat to School / by Dorothy M. Kennedy                        J 811 KEN
The Kitchen Talks / by Shirley Mozelle                                                      J 811.54 MOZ 

If you like Shel Silverstein, you might also like . . .

Jack Prelutsky
Douglas Florian
Ogden Nash
James Stevenson

Write Poetry

Poem-Making: Ways to begin writing poetry / by Myra Cohn Livingston      J 808.1 LIV
How to Write Poetry / by Paul B. Janeczko                                                   J 808.1 JAN
Poetry Matters: writing a poem from the inside out / by Ralph Fletcher       J 808.1 FLE

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