HIT: Poetry Anthologies

[Elizabeth Abbott <ABBOTT@COUGAR.SCHDIST60.BC.CA>]

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The National Library of Poetry anthologies
Adoff, Arnold.  Chocolate Dreams.  Lothrop, c1989.
 ISBN 0-688-068235-5
Agard, John.  Life doesn't frighten me at all. c1990. 0-8050-1237-0
Glenn, Mel.  Back to Class. Clarion c1988. 0-89919-656-X
Janeczko, Paul. Brickyard Summer.  Orchard, c1989j0-531-08446-9
Janeczko, Paul. The Music of what happens. Orchard, 1988
0-531-05757-7
Janeczko, Paul. Preposterous. Orchard c1991 0-0531-8501-5
Komunyakaa, Yusef. Dien Cai Dau. Univ. Press of New England, c1988.
0-8195-2163-9 (poems of Vietnam & what it was like for Americans)
McCullough, Frances.  Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Harper, 1989
0-06-0242-7-8
Morgan, Robert. Sigodlin. Wesleyan University, c1990. 0-8195-1180-3
Rylant, Cynthia. Soda Jerk. Orchard, 1990. 0-531-05864-6

Poetspeak
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
anything by Jack Prelutsky or Shel Silverstein
If I Were in Charge of the World by Judith Viorst
Casey at the Bat by Thayer (the Polacco version)
Sing a Song of Popcorn

Anything by Caroline Bauer
Anything by David McCord

Pierced by a Ray of the Sun, Gordon
Hand in Hand, Bennett
Here is My Kingdom, Sullivan
Something Permanent, Rylant
Life Doesn't Frighten Me at All
Celebrate America

Norton Anthologies
Oxford Anthologies
-recommended purchasing at Barnes and Noble

The 500 Best Poems.