Illustration from Wynken, Blynken and Nod By Eugene
Field; with illustrations by Johanna Westerman. Courtesy
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Books
Bibliography includes books popular with students at McGaheysville Elementary School, Rockingham County Schools [VA]. Citation and reviewing sources are provided.
Adoff, Arnold. Sports Pages. Illustrated by Steve Kuzma.
New York: Lippincott, 1986. [BBFC; CC]
Ciardi, John. Doodle Soup. Illustrated by Merle Nacht.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. [BBFC, ECL, BCCB]
Fleischman, Paul. Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Illustrated by Eric Beddows. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
[Newbery Medal; BBC, CC]
Florian, Douglas. Bing Bang Boing. San Diego: Harcourt,
Brace, 1994. [BCCB; BL 12/1/94]
Frost, Robert. You Come Too; Favorite Poems for Young Readers.
New York: Henry Holt, 1959. [ESLC, BBC].
Greenfield, Eloise. Night on Neighborhood Street. New York:
Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991. [ESLC, CC, BCCB]
Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed. Hand in Hand; American History
Through Poetry. Illustrated by Peter M. Fiore. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1994. [CC, BCCB, SLJ 12/94]
Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Side by Side: Poems to Read Together
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. [BBC, CC, ECL]
Janeczko, Paul, ed. The Place My Words Are Looking
For; What Poets Say About and Through Their Work. New York:
Bradbury Press, 1990. [ESLC, CC, BL 3/15/91]
Kennedy, Dorothy M. I Thought I'd Take My Rat to School; Poems
for September to June. Illustrated by Abby Carter. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 1993. [CC, BCCB, BL 11/1/93]
Lear, Edward. How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear New York:
Holiday House, 1982. [CC, BGC, BCCB, BL 3/1/83]
Livingston, Myra Cohn. I Like You, If you Like Me; Poems About
Friendship. New York: Holiday House, 1987. [BGC, ESLC, BBC]
Livingston, Myra Cohn. Space Songs. Illustrated by Leonard
Everett Fisher. New York: Holiday House, 1988. [ESLC, BBC, BL 4/1/88]
Merriam, Eve. Blackberry Ink. Illustrated by Hans Wilhelm.
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1985. [ESLC, BBC, CC]
Milne, A. A. Now We Are Six. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.
New York: Dell, 1955. [ESLC, BBC, CC]
Milne, A. A. When We Were Very Young. Illustrated by Ernest
H. Shepard. New York: Dell, 1955 [ESLC, BBC, CC]
Moss, Jeff. The Butterfly Jar. Illustrated by Chris Demarest.
New York: Bantam Books, 1989. [NYTBR, SLJ 7/90]
O'Neill, Mary. Hailstones and Halibut Bones; Adventures in Color
New York: Doubleday, 1961. [BBC, CC, CP, ECL]
Prelutsky, Jack, ed. For Laughing Out Loud; Poems to Tickle Your
Funnybone. Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. Knopf, 1991. [ESLC,
CC, ECL]
Prelutsky, Jack. The New Kid on the Block. Illustrated by James
Stevenson. New York: Greenwillow, 1984. [ESCL, BBC, CC, ECL]
Prelutskiy, Jack, ed. The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Illustrated by Arnold Lobel. New York: Random House, 1983. [ESLC, BBC,
CC, ECL, BCCB]
Prelutsky, Jack. The New Kid on the Block Illustrated by james
Stevenson. New York: Greenwillow, 1984. [ESLC, BBC, CC, ECL, BCCB]
Prelutsky, Jack, ed. The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Illustrated by Arnold Lobel. New York: Random House, 1983. [ESLC, BBC,
CC, ECL]
Prelutsky, Jack, ed. Ride a Purple Pelican. Illustrated by
Garth Williams. New York: Greenwillow, 1986. [ESLC, BBC, CC]
Prelutsky, Jack. Something Big Has Been Here. Illustrated by
James Stevenson. New York: Greenwillow, 1990. [ESLC, CC, ECL, BCCB]
Rogaksy, Barbara, ed. Winter Poems. Illustrated by Trina Schart
Hyman. New York: Scholastic, 1994. [BCCB, SLJ 12/94]
Seattle, Chief. Brother Eagle, Sister Sky. Illustrated by
Susan Jeffers. New york: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1991. [CC, BL 11/1/91]
Silverstein, Shel. A Light in the Attic. New York: Harper &
Row, 1981. [ESLC, BBC, CC, ECL]
Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends; The Poems and Drawings
of Shel Silverstein. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. [ESLC, BBC, CC]
Stevenson, Robert Louis. A Child's Garden of Verses Illustrated
by Joanna Abrams, 1994. [ESLC, CC]
Worth, Valerie, All the Small Poems. Illustrated by Natalie
Babbit. Farrar, 1972. [ESLC]
Adoff, Arnold. Sports Pages. [videocassette] Reading Rainbow.
Lincoln, NB: GPN. 30 minutes. Available through local Public Broadcasting
System.
Cricket [magazine] Marianne Carus, ed. Carus Corp. 315 Fifth
Street, Peru, IL 61354. [MFL]
Prelutsky, Jack. Something Big Has Been Here. [sound
recording; cassette] Old Greenwich, CN: Listening Library. 23 minutes. Read
by author.
Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends; Recited, Sung and
Shouted by Shel Silverstein. [sound recording; cassette] New York:
CBS, 1985. 37 minutes. Read by author. [ESLC]
Chatton, Barbara. Using Poetry Across the Curriculum; A Whole
Language Approach. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1993.
BBC: Best Books for Children: Preschool Through Grade 6. 4th ed.
John T. Gillespie and Corinne J. Naden, eds. New York: R.R.Bowker, 1990.
BL: Booklist Chicago: American Library Association.
BGC: Books for the Gifted Child v. 2. By Paula Hauser and
Gail A. Nelson. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1988.
BCCB: Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Roger
Sutton, ed. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
CP: Childhood in Poetry. Kpjm
CC: Children's Catalog. 16th ed. and annual supplements.
Juliette Yaakow, ed. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1991-1995.
ESLC: Elementary School Libray Collection 19th ed. K. Lee
Lauren, ed. Williamsport, PA: Brodart, 1994.
ECL: Essentials of Children's Liteature By Carol Lynch-Brown
and Carl M. Tomlinson. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1993.
FRL: For Reading Out Loud! A Guide to Sharing Books with Children.
By Margaret Mary Kimmel and Elizabith Setal. New York: Dell, 1991.
ML: Magazines for Libraries. 8th ed. Bill Katz and Linda
Steinberg Katz, eds. New Providence, NJ: R. R. Bowker, 1995.
SLJ: School Library Journal, Lillian N. Gerhardt, ed.
New York: R. R. Bowker.
HB: Horn Book Magazine. Boston: Horn Book.
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Madison University.
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