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Kentucky Summer Reading Program 2004 - Poetry Bibliography

Author
Title
Publisher
Year
ISBN
Ada, Alma Flor
A Chorus of Cultures:
Developing Literacy Through Multicultural Poetry
Hampton Brown
1993
1563343258
(Out of print)
Adoff, Arnold, ed.
I Am The Darker Brother
Simon & Schuster
1997
0689812418
(Out of print)
Adoff, Jamie
The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth:
A Celebration of Music
Dutton
2002
0525469494
Agard, Ed., John
Under the Moon & Over the Sea:
A Collection of Caribbean Poems
Candlewick
2003
0763618616
Alarcon, Francisco
Laughing Tomatoes & Other Spring Poems
(bilingual-Mexico)
Children's Book Press
1997
0892391391
Alarcon, Francisco
From the Bellybutton of the Moon
(bilingual-Mexico)
Children's Book Press
1998
0892391537
Alarcon, Francisco
Iguanas in the Snow
(bilingual)
Children's Book Press
2001
0892391685
Altman, Susan
Ancient Rome
(Series: Modern Rhymes About Ancient Times)
Children's Press
2001
051621148X
Bates, Katherine Lee/Wendell Minor, ill.
America the Beautiful
G. P. Putnam's Sons
2003
0399238859
Bauer, Caroline Feller
The Poetry Break*
H W Wilson
1995
0824208528
Berry, James, ed.
Around the World in Eighty Poems
Chronicle Books
2002
0811835065
(avail. from UK)
Brenner, Barbara
The Earth is Painted Green:
A Garden of Poems About Our Planet
Scholastic
2000
0590451359
Brenner, Barbara
Voices: Poetry & Art From Around the World
National Geographic
2000
0792270711
Bruchac, Joseph
13 Moons on Turtles Back:
A Native American Year of Moons
Puffin
1997
0698115848
Bruchac, Joseph
Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet:
Native American Poems
Puffin
1998
069811647X
Bryan, Ashley
Ashley Bryan's ABC of African American Poetry
Aladdin
2001
0689840454
Carlson, Lori
Cool Salsa:
Bilingual Poems About Growing Up Latino in the U. S.
Edge
1994
0805031359
Cassedy, Sylvia, tr.
Red Dragonfly on My Shoulder (haiku)
Harper Collins
1992
0060226250
Dahl, Roald
Roald Dahl's Really Revolting Rhymes
Alfred A. Knopf
1982
0375815562
Donegan, Patricia
Haiku Activities:
Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids
Tuttle
2003
0804835012
Feelings, Tom
Soul Looks Back in Wonder
Puffin
1993
0140565019
Fleischman, Paul
Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices
Candlewick
2000
0763606367
Fleischman, Paul
Joyful Noise: Poems for 2 Voices
Harper Collins
1988
0060218525
Fletcher, Ralph
Poetry Matters: Writing A Poem From the Inside Out*
Harper Collins
2001
0066235995
Foster, John
My First Book of Oxford Poems
Oxford Press
2000
019276201X
Gollub, Matthew
Cool Melons Turn to Frogs:
The Life and Poems of Issa
Lee & Low
1998
1880000717
Gunning, Monica
Under the Breadfruit Tree:
Island Poems
Boyds Mills
1998
1563975394
(Pub. Out of stock)
Harrison, Michael, ed.
The New Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems
Oxford Press
1995
019276196X
Herrera, Juan Felipe
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly:
Poems in English & Spanish
Harper Collins
1998
0060276045
Holbrook, Sara
Wham! It's a Poetry Jam
Boyds Mills
2002
1590780116
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Hand in Hand:
An American History Through Poetry
Simon & Schuster
1994
067173315X
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Home to Me:
Poems Across America
Orchard
2002
0439340969
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
My America:
A Poetry Atlas of the United States
Simon & Schuster
2000
06891812477
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Let Them Be Themselves*
HarperTrophy
1992
0064461262
Hopkins, Lee Bennett
Pass the Poetry, Please*
Harper Collins
1998
0060277467
Janeczko, Paul
A Poke in the I:
A Collection of Concrete Poems
Candlewick
2001
0763606618
Janeczko, Paul
How to Write Poetry*
Scholastic
1999
0590100777
Johnston, Tony
My Mexico/Maexico maio
Putnam
1996
0399222758
Kennedy, X. J. 
Knock at a Star
Little, Brown
1999
0316488003
Koch, Kenneth
Talking to the Sun:
An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People
Henry Holt
1985
0805001441
Larrick, Nancy
Let's Do a Poem*
Delacorte Press
1991
0385302924
Lewis, J. Patrick
A World of Wonders:
Geographic Travels in Verse & Rhyme
Dial
2002
0803725795
Lewis, J. Patrick
Doodle Dandies:
Poems That Take Shape
Aladdin
2002
0689848897
Livingston, Myra Cohn
Poem Making:
Ways to Begin Writing Poetry* 
Harper Collins
1990
0060240202
Mado, Michio
The Magic Pocket
Simon & Schuster
1998
0689821379
Mannis, Celeste 
One Leaf Rides the Wind:
Counting in a Japanese Garden
Viking
2002
0670035254
McNaughton, Colin
Wish You Were Here (And I Wasn't)
Candlewick
2003
0763617202
Nicholls, Ed
The Sun in Me: Poems About the Planet
Barefoot
2003
1841480584
Nye, Naomi
19 Varieties of a Gazelle:
Poems of the Middle East
Greenwillow
2002
0060097663
Nye, Naomi
The Space Between our Footsteps:
Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
Simon & Shuster
1998
0689812337
Prelutsky, Jack
A Pizza the Size of the Sun
Greenwillow
1994
0688132359
Prelutsky, Jack, ed.
20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
Alfred A. Knopf
1999
0679993142
Roemer, Heidi
Come To My Party (concrete)
Henry Holt
#####
08050662309
Scott, Steven
Splish Splash (concrete poetry)
Houghton Mifflin
2001
0618111239
Sierra, Judy
Antarctic Antics:
A Book of Penguin Poems
Scholastic
1998
0439056365
Singer, Marilyn
Footprints on the Roof: Poems About The Earth
Alfred A. Knopf
2002
0375910948
Thayer, Ernest Christopher Bing, ill. 
Casey at the Bat
Handprint Books
2000
1929766009
Unobagha, Uzoamaka Chineyelu
Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa & Other Talking Drum Rhymes
Chronicle Books
2000
0811823784
Vecchione, Ed.,Patrice
Whisper & Shout:
Poems to Memorize
Cricket
2002
0812626567
Weatherford, Carole 
Remember the Bridge:
Poems of a People
Philomel
2002
0399237267
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall:
African Americans Celebrating Fathers
Lee & Low
1997
1880000318

Recommended by Kathy Crawford
Children’s Librarian, Larue County Public Library, Hodgenville, Kentucky
Summer reading training for public librarians
Frankfort, Kentucky March 2, 3, and 4, 2004

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