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Carolyn Frankeberger,Graduate Student McDaniel College - Westminster, MD fbergers@adelphia.net The following chart is a booklist featuring 20 of our best poetry titles we assembled to recommend at the K-3 elementary level.We wanted to share our findings with current and future media specialists. Enjoy! (If you come up with a better way to word this be my guest..I think the KISS method works well at this point!) Title Author ISBN Publisher Cost Summary Copyright Grades Pages Reviews Almost Late to School Shields, Carol 0-525-45743-7 Dutton Children’s Books $13.59 poems about life in school 2003 3-6 40 WC, BL 8/03, K 6/03, SLJ 8/03 America the Beautiful Bates, Katharine Lee 0-316-73743-7 Little Brown $14.40 Celebration of America 2004 K-3 33 WC , PW* 4/04 HB 10/04, BL* 5/04 Animal Stackers Belle, Jennifer 0-7868-1834-4 Hyperion Books for Children $15.99 Acrostic poems 2005 K-4 33 WC, SLJ 4/05 HB 10/05, BCCB 4/05 Blues Journey Myers, Walter Dean 0-8234-1613-5 Holiday House $17.96 history of the African-American experience 2003 3-6 78 WC, K* 2/03, HB 10/03 SLJ* 4/03, BCCB 6/03 Days to Celebrate: A Full Year of Poetry, People, Holidays, History, Fascinating Facts, and More Hopkins, Lee Bennett 0-06-000766-4 Greenwillow $18.89 poetry about the twelve months of the year 2005 1-5 112 WC, BCCB 4/05, HB 10/05, SLJ 1/05, BL 1/05, K* 12/04 Don’t Step on the Sky: A Handful of Haiku Chaikin, Miriam 0-8050-6474-5 Holt $15.26 Haiku about nature 2002 K-3 32 WC, PW* 3/02, K 3/03 SLJ 5/02, BL 3/02 Earthshake; poems from the ground up Peters, Lisa Westberg. 0-06-029266-0 Greenwillow Books $17.89 22 poems about geology 2003 3-5 32 WC, BL 11/03, K 7/03 SLJ 9/03, HB 4/04 Eureka: Poems About Inventors Sidman, Joyce 0-7613-1665-5 Millbrook Press $18.95 poems about inventors 2002 3-6 48 WC, Blinks 11/03 SLJ 1/03, HB 4/03 Fireflies at Midnight Singer, Marilyn 0-689-82492-0 Atheneum Books $14.40 poems about the activities insects and animals 2003 K-3 32 WC, BCCB* 5/03, BL 4/03, SLJ* 5/03, K* 3/03, HB 10/03 Fold Me a Poem George, Kristine O’Connell, 0-15-202501-4 Harcourt $16 poems about origami animals 2005 K-3 Unpaged WC, SLJ 3/05, K* 3/05, PW* 3/28/05, BL 3/05 If Not for the Cat Prelutsky, Jack 0-06-059678-3 Greenwillow Books $17.89 haiku-style poems about different animals 2004 K-3 40 WC, HB* 11/05, K* 9/04 BCCB 12/04, SLJ 10/04 ALA Notable/Best A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms Janeczko, Paul 0-7636-0662-6 Candlewick Press $17.99 poems in 29 different forms each with a brief definition 2005 3-9 61 WC, HB* 5/05, BCCB 4/05, BL* 3/05, SLJ* 3/05, K* 3/05 Mathematickles Franco, Betsy 0-689-84357-7 Margaret K. McElderry Books $15.26 poems written in the form of mathematical problems 2003 K-3 34 WC, HB* 7/03, BL 5/03, SLJ* 6/03, PW* 6/03 Mural on Second Avenue and Other City Poems Moore, Lilian 0-7636-1987-6 Candlewick Press $14.44 poems that capture various aspects of life in the city. 2005 3-6 30 WC, SLJ 5/05, K 4/05, HB* 10/05, BL 4/05 Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? And other Disasters: Poems Hopkins, Lee Bennett 0-688-17861-8 HarperCollins $16.89 Poetry about childhood embarrassments 2005 2-5 32 WC, HB 5/05, BL 2/05, SLJ* 2/05, BCCB 2/05 Scranimals: poems Prelutcky, Jack 0-688-17820-0 Greenwillow Books $18.89 poems about vegetables, flowers, and animals that are scrambled together 2002 K-3 40 WC, PW* 6/02, BL 9/02, SLJ* 9/02, BCCB* 10/02, K* 7/02 Seasons; a book of poems Zolotow, Charlotte. 0-06026699-6 HarperCollins $14.89 poetry about seasons 2002 K-3 64 WC, PW* 1/02, BL 2/02 , HBG 9/02 , SLJ 6/02 Technically It Is Not My Fault: Concrete Poems Grandits, John 0-618-42833-X Clarion Books $15.00 concrete poems 2004 3 - 6 Unpaged WC, HB 4/05, SLJ* 12/04 BL 12/04, BCCB 1/05, ALA Notable/Best Zoo’s Who: Poems and Paintings Florian, Douglas 0-15-204639 Harcourt $17.00 Rhyming poems about animals 2005 3-5 47 WC, SLJ 4/05, HB 5/05, BL 3/05, BCCB 5/05 Group Book Order – Poetry (811) – Fall 2005 – Created By Linda Fink, Carolyn Frankeberger, Kathryn Jones, and Jen Myers -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/sub/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------