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
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