Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Kids Booklist

Poems for All Ages

Poetry permeates our lives. Rhythm and rhyme are found in songs, advertising jingles and LOTS of children's books. From bouncy picture books to realistic novels in verse to poems you can perform at the top of your lungs, the titles below offer new ways to see and celebrate the world around us.

Ashburn, Boni – Builder Goose: It's Construction Rhyme Time!

Creech, Sharon – Hate that Cat

Elliott, Zetta – Bird

– A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout

Grady, Cynthia – I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery

Hauth, Katherine B. – What's for Dinner?: Quirky, Squirmy Poems from the Animal World

Shange, Ntozake – We Troubled the Waters: Poems

Myers, Walter Dean – We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart

Prelutsky, Jack – I've Lost My Hippopotamus

Sidman, Joyce – Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors

Silverstein, Shel – Every Thing on It: Poems and Drawings

Singer, Marilyn – A Stick is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play

Woodson, Jacqueline – Locomotion

Young, Judy – R Is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet