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Ciardi, John. Doodle
Soup: Poems. Illustrated by Merle Nacht. pa. Houghton
Mifflin, 1991. Ages 9 to 12. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Ciardi, John.
The
Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks. Illustrated by Susan
Meddaugh; contribution by Myra J. Ciardi. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Ages 9-12. Review at Barnes &
Noble.
Cole, Joanna and Stephanie
Calmenson, comps. Ready...Set...Read
and Laugh; A Funny Treasury for Beginning Readers. Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young
Readers, 1995. Ages 4 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Cole, William, comp. Oh,
What Nonsense!. Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer. pa. Penguin USA,
1997. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Florian, Douglas. Bing
Bang Boing. pa. Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1995.
Ages 7 to 11. Review at Barnes & Noble
Florian, Douglas. Laugh-Eteria.
Harcourt Brace, 1999. Ages 6 to 9. Review from Barnes & Noble
Hall, Donald.
The
Oxford Book of Children's Verse in
America. Oxford University, 1985. Reviews from Barnes & Noble.
Kennedy, X. J. Did Adam Name the
Vinegarroon?. Illustrated
by Heidi Johanna Selig. Boston: D. R. Godine, 1982.
Lansky, Bruce, ed.
Kids
Pick the Funniest Poems. Illustrated by Steve Carpenter.
Meadowbrook Press, 1991. Ages 9-12. Review at Amazon Books.
Lansky, Bruce. The
New Adventures of Mother Goose; Gentle Rhymes
for Happy Times. Illustrated by Stephen Carpenter. Simon &
Schuster, 1999. Review at Amazon
Books.
Lear, Edward. Nonsense
Poems. Edited by Candace Ward. pa. Dover, 1998. Ages 6 to 11.
Review at Barnes &
Noble.
Lee, Dennis. Dinosaur
Dinner with a Slice of Alligator Pie; Favorite Poems.
Compiled by Jack Prelustsky; illustrated by Debbie Tilley. Random
House, 1997. Ages 5 to 8.
Lobel, Arnold. The
Book of Pigericks; Pig Limericks. Ballantine,
1984. Review at Barnes &
Noble
Marquis, Don. Archy
and Mehitable. Anchor Books/Doublday, 1970. Review at Barnes & Noble
Merriam, Eve. Higgle
Wiggle; Happy Rhymes. Illustrated by Hans Wilhelm. pa.
Reprint ed. William
Morrow, 1997. Review from Barnes & Noble.
Moss, Jeffrey. Bone
Poems. Illustrated by Tom Leigh. Workman Publishing, 1997. Review
at Barnes & Noble.
Moss, Jeffrey. The
Butterfly Jar. Illustrated by Chris Demarest. Bantam Doubleday
Dell, 1989. Ages 4 to 7. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Nash, Ogden. The
Adventures of Isabel. Illustrated by James Marshall. Little,
Brown, 1994. Ages 5 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Nash,
Ogden. The
Tale of Custard the Dragon, Vol. 1. Illustrated by Lynn
Munsinger. pa. Little, Brown, 1998. Ages 4 to 7. Review at Barnes & Noble
.
Opie, Iona
and Peter Opie. I
Saw Esau.
Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Candlewick Press, 1992. Ages 12 and up.
Review at Barnes & Noble.
Polisar, Barry. Barry
Louis Polisar's A Little Different. [Audio] Rainbow
Morning Music Alternatives, 1999.
Polisar, Barry. Don't
Do That! A Child's Guide to Bad Manners, Ridiculous Rules, and
Inadequate Etiquette. Illustrated by David Clark.
Rainbow Morning Music Alternatives, 1995.
Prelutsky, Jack. The
Dragons Are Singing Tonight. Illustrated by Peter Sis.
Greenwillow Books, 1993. Ages 4 to 9. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Prelutsky, Jack. The
New Kid on the Block. Illustrated by James Stevenson.
Greenwillow, 1990. Ages 5 to 9
Prelutsky, Jack. A
Pizza the Size of the Sun. Illustrated by
James Stevenson. Greenwillow, 1996. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Prelutsky, Jack, ed. The
Random House Book of Poetry for Children; A Treasury of 572 Poems for
Today's Child. Illustrated by Arnold Lobel; designed by Joseph
Trautwein. Random House, 1983. Ages 6 to 10. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Prelutsky, Jack, ed. Read-Aloud
Rhymes for the Very Young. Illustrated by Marc Tolon Brown;
introduction by Jim Trelease. Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Ages 3 to 7.
Schwartz, Alvin, comp. And
the Green Grass Grew All around; Folk Poetry from
Everyone. Illustratd by Susan G. Truesdell. pa.
HarperCollins, 1999. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Shields,
Carol. Lunch
Money And Other Poems About School. Illustrations by
Paul Meisel. Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1998.
Ages 7 to 9. Reviews at Barnes & Noble.
Sierra, Judy. Monster Goose. Illustrated by Jack E. Davis. Harcourt, 2001. Ages 8 to 11.
Silverstein, Shel. Falling
Up; Poems and Drawings. HarperCollins, 1996. Ages 5 to
7. From Barnes &
Noble.
Silverstein, Shel. A
Light in the Attic. HarperCollins,
1981.
Silverstein, Shel. Where
the Sidewalk Ends; The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein.
HarperCollins, 1973. Ages 4 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Smith, William Jay. Around
My Room. Illustrated by Erik Blegvad. 1st ed. Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 2000. Ages 5 to 7. Review from Barnes & Noble.
Smith, William
Jay. Laughing
Time; Collected Nonsense. Photographs by Fernando Krahn. pa. 2nd
ed. Farrar, Straus & Giuroux, 1991. Ages 12 and up. Review at Barnes & Noble
Stevenson, Robert L. A Child's Garden of Verses. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor. Revised ed. Simon & Schuster, 1999. Ages 4 to 8.
Totline Staff, comp. 1001
Rhymes & Fingerplays; For Working with Young Children. Illustrated
by Gary Mohrmann. pa. Warren Publishing, 1994. Infants & pre-school.
Viorst, Judith. If
I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries. Reprint
ed. Aladdin Paperbacks, 1984. All ages. Review from Amazon Books.
Viorst, Judith. The
Alphabet from Z to A; (With Much Confusion on the Way0.
illustrated by Richard Hull. 1st ed. Atheneum, 1994. Ages 7-9.
Review from Amazon Books.
Viorst,
Judith. Sad
Underwear and Other Complications. Illustrated by Richard
Hull. pa. Aladdin Paperbacks, 2000. Ages 9-12. Review at Amazon Books.
Walton, Rick. What
to Do when a Bug Climbs in Your Mouth and Other Poems to Drive You
Buggy. Illustrated by Nancy Carlson. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard,
1995. Ages 4 to 7.
Stories in
Verse
Carlstrom, Nancy White. Jessie
Bear, What Will You Wear?. Illustrated by Bruce Degen. 1st ed.
Simon & Schuster, 1996. Infants or preschool. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Grossman, Bill. My
Little Sister Ate One Hare. pa. Crown, 1998. Ages 5 to 8.
Review from Barnes &
Noble.
Guarino, Deborah. Is
Your Mama a Llama?. Board Book. Scholastic, 1997. Infants &
preschool. Review from Barnes & Noble.
Kennedy, X. J. Elympics.
Illustrated by Graham Percy. Putnam, 1999. Ages 4 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble.
McClintlock, Mike. Stop
That Ball!. Illustrated by Fritz Siebel. Reissue ed.
Beginner Books, 1989. Ages 4 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble
Seuss, Dr. How
the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Random House, 1976. Ages 4 to
8. From Barnes & Noble.
Seuss, Dr. Oh,
Say Can You Say?. Random House, 1979.
Seuss, Dr. Horton
Hatches the Egg. Random House, 1976. Ages 4 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Seuss, Dr. The
Sneetches & Other Stories. Random House, 1976. Ages 4 to 7. Review
at Barnes & Noble.
Shields, Carol. Saturday
Night at the Dinosaur Stomp. Illustrated by Scott Nash. 1st
ed. Candlewick Press, 1997. Ages 4 to 8. Review at Barnes & Noble.
Wheeler, Lisa. Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea. Illustrated by Ponder Goembel. Simon & Schuster Children's, 2002. Ages 5 to 8. Picture book
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