Contains activities and ideas for educators using nursery rhymes, jump rope jingles, and songs as springboards to the enjoyment of poetry.

Noted children's poet Lee Bennett Hopkins recounts his life and describes how his daily activities and writing process are interwoven.

Provides a listing of events, births of famous people, and holidays, with information and poetry about the twelve months of the year.

In the stillness of a Bethlehem stable, after the shepherds and animals leave, Mary sings a lullaby to her newborn son, enjoying the wonder and awe of his birth and pondering what his life will bring.

A collection of fifty poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.

A collection of poems especially chosen to be read aloud, by authors ranging from Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson to Gwendolyn Brooks and David McCord.

A collection of poems and lyrics from several songs provides a look at our country, from colonial times to the present.Come, ye thankful people, come -- The Gift Outright / Robert Frost -- The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- First Thanksgiving / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Circles / Carl Sandburg -- Come, Ye Thankful People, Come / George J. Elvey -- Ring! Oh, ring for liberty! -- Paul Revere's Ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...

A collection of more than twenty humorous poems about dinosaurs by such writers as Jane Yolen, Madeleine Comora, and Philip Yates.

A collection of 48 poems, 12 for each of the seasons.