Here is Your Super Quick and Condensed poetry – quick resources list!
If you want more extensive background and explanations for the resources below, hop on over to these three comprehensive posts on poetry:
1 – 10 Enchanting Poetry Books for Young Kids
2 – 10 Captivating Poetry Books for Middle Schoolers
3 – 10 Exceptional Poetry Books for High Schoolers
Otherwise, here is your Poetry – Quick Resources List, complete with links to each recommended resource.
Young Kids:
1. Bee-Bim Bop by Linda Sue Park
2. How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? by Varsha Bajaj
3. Fancy Nancy Poet Extraordinaire by Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser
4. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
5. The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
6. Stand Back Said the Elephant, I’m Going to Sneeze! by Patricia Thomas and Wallace Tripp
7. There are Rocks in My Socks Said the Ox to the Fox by Patricia Thomas and Mordical Gerstein
8. Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
9. The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
10. Dirt on My Shirt by Jeff Foxworthy
Middle Schoolers:
1. A Child’s Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll and Meredith Hamilton
2. Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson by Frances Shoonmaker Bolin and Chi Chun
3. Out of Wonder by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjorey Wentworth, and Ekua Holmes
4. Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye
5. Hip Hop Speaks to Children by Nikki Giovanni
6. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacquiline Woodson
7. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
8. Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
9. Imperfect: Poems About Mistakes: An Anthology for Middle Schoolers by Tabatha Yeats
10. The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
High Schoolers:
1. Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else by Elise Paschen
2. Seeing the Blue Between by Paul B. Janeczo
3. Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
4. Voices in the Air by Naomi Shihab Nye
5. The Essential Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi and translators Coleman Barks and John Moyne
6. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
7. No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay and Sophia Janowitz
8. The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle
9. Laughing Out Loud, I Fly by Juan Felipe Herrera
10. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Do you have any favorite poetry books? How about a favorite poet? I’d love to know!
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