Poetry is all around us and
April is
National Poetry Month!
Here are some favorite new poetry books for children from Green Bean Books in Portland, OR:
*Everything Comes Next
by Naomi Shihab Nye
*A Songbird Dreams of Singing: Poems about Sleeping Animals
by Kate Hosford
with illustrations by Jennifer M. Potter
*Construction People
by Lee Bennett Hopkins
with illustrations by Ellen Shi
*Boom! Bellow! Bleat!: Animal Poems for Two or More Voices
by Georgia Heard
with illustrations by Aaron DeWitt*A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
by Evie Robillard
with illustrations by Rachel Katstaller
*Follow the Recipe: Poems About Imagination, Celebration, and Cake
by Marilyn Singer
with illustrations by Marjorie Priceman
*Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes