Short-listed for the 1999 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award Award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird’s-eye view of the...
Juvenile poetry
- Author:Nickel, BarbaraSummary:
- Author:Paddon, DaveSummary:
The world of Dave Paddon's recitations is quirky, riotously funny, and utterly unique; a place of tall tales and plain foolishness, where fog is so thick you can use it for cannonballs, and a polar bear hijacks a bingo tournament....
- Author:Nye, Naomi ShihabSummary:
In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling sweeter and soothed.
- Author:Alexander, KwameSummary:
Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander brings you How to Read a Book, a poetic journey about the experience of reading. Find a tree-a black tupelo or dawn redwood will do-and plant yourself. (It's okay if you prefer a stoop, like...
- Author:Medina, TonySummary:
Uniquely perceptive poems follow the life from boyhood to icon of this celebrated poet and prophet of reggae culture, set against a backdrop of original music that echoes the Jamaican countryside where he was born and the world beyond...
- Author:Joe, RitaSummary:
I lost my talk, the talk you took away when I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. One of Rita Joe's most influential poems, "I Lost My Talk" tells the revered Mi'kmaw Elder's childhood story of losing her language while a resident...
- Author:Prelutsky, JackSummary:
A brand-new rib-tickling collection of more than 100 never-before-published poems by national bestselling poet Prelutksy.
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From the first known African American poet, Lucy Terry, to recent poet laureate Rita Dove, I, TOO, SING AMERICA captures the enormous talent and passion of black writers. This powerful and diverse, this unique collection spans three...
- Author:Fitch, ShereeSummary:
A Sheree Fitch classic, the Silver Birch - and Hackmatack Award-winning children's picture book about children's rights, If You Could Wear My Sneakers, is now available for a new generation of young readers. A series of humorous poems,...
- Author:Acevedo, ElizabethSummary:
Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance.
- Author:Gagné, JohanneSummary:
La forêt... un univers d'une grande richesse, malheureusement menacé. D'où l'importance de le faire connaître et apprécier des petits comme des grands, qui prendront un plaisir toujours renouvelé à trouver les réponses à ces devinettes...
- Author:Gravel, FrançoisSummary:
La langue française, c’est tout un zoo ! Surtout lorsqu’elle raconte les bêtes et les bestioles. La langue au chat et autres poèmes pas bêtes, c’est un recueil de 21 nouveaux poèmes où les animaux sont en vedette, qu’importe s’ils...
- Author:Mathieu, PierreSummary:
Un livre qui retrace les origines de la fête des amoureux.
- Author:Réhel, Jean-ChristopheSummary:
Lorsque les mots ne se laissent pas dompter Pas facile pour le narrateur d'avoir les deux pieds sur Terre. Surtout s'il doit s'y battre avec des mots qui refusent de collaborer, des phrases qui se dressent comme des obstacles et des...
- Author:Duhaime, AndréSummary:
Pour André Duhaime et Francine Couture, l'exercice conjoint du mot et de l’art rejaillit sur autant de poèmes haïkus rassemblés dans ces petits livres, sans travestir l'univers de jeunes esprits et de jeunes oreilles. Pour...
- Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance—paired with full-color, original art from today's...
- Author:Dufresne, RhéaSummary:
Les vacances partage avec les jeunes lecteurs tout ce que représente cette période magique qui est celle du temps pour soi, pour jouer, pour découvrir, pour se dépasser et pour rêver. Dans ce court texte, les enfants retrouveront ce qu’...
- Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:
A Netflix Original series With over 30 million copies in print, Anna Dewdney's New York Times bestselling Llama Llama books have provided hours of comfort and fun-to-read-aloud rhyme. Summer days are getting shorter and it's...
- Author:Dewdney, AnnaSummary:
A Netflix Original series With over 30 million copies in print, Anna Dewdney's New York Times bestselling Llama Llama books have provided hours of comfort and fun-to-read-aloud rhyme. "I have something new to talk about . . ....
- Author:Vande Griek, Susan, Reczuch, KarenSummary:
Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Picture Book Award, the TD Norma Fleck Award, the Vancouver Children's Literature Roundtable Information Book Award, and a USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor Book. Nominated for...