HUGE BOXLOT of POETRY BOOKS for CHILDREN

(23) Books = (14) Softcover + (9) Hardback

Here is a great grouping of (23) poetry books for children with various

 themes – seasons, nursery rhymes, holidays, animals, Mother Goose, dinosaurs,

nonsense, silly tongue twisters – something for all ages. There is a wonderful

book of poems by Langston Hughes (80 pages), and a lovely illustrated

poetic story of God’s creation of the universe. There is a book on concrete

 poetry and a teacher’s book to motivate students to write different kinds of poetry.

Many of these are books are seldom found for sale,

especially gathered together in one lot!

This is a mixed lot of hardback and softcover books, all from a private

 collection (no ex-library). Vintage books have the usual aging papers,

but pages remain supple, intact and securely bound. An occasional name

is the only writing noted; and no bends, odor or tears were noted.

See the list below for more condition details.

(14) SOFTCOVER TITLES:

A POEM CAN SAY IT

Selected by Lilian Moore, illustrated by John Trotta

Macmillan, 1975

(damp stain at top of some pages)

ARROW BOOK of POETRY

Selected by Ann McGovern

Scholastic paperback, 1965, 2^nd printing

(last name in front)

CONCRETE IS NOT ALWAYS HARD

By A. Barbara Pilon

Xerox, 1972, 2^nd printing paperback

(chipping and bend at top front)

FLY WITH POETRY

An ABC of Poetry

Written and illustrated by Avis Harley

Hidden within a simple acrostic in this book is a message, “It’s fun to read poetry.”

GONNA BAKE ME A RAINBOW POEM

A Student Guide to Writing Poetry

By Peter Sears

With poems by student winners of the Scholastic Writing Awards

GRANFA’ GRIG HAD A PIG

And Other Rhymes Without Reason from Mother Goose

Compiled and illustrated by Wallace Tripp 

LAUGHING TIME

Nonsense Poems

William Jay Smith, illustrated by Fernando Krahn

Dell Yearling, 1986, 2^nd printing

POEMS and PRAYERS for the VERY YOUNG

Selected and illustrated by Martha Alexander

(front cover crease)

POETRY PATTERNS

Evan-Moor Grade 3-6

Motivate students to create original verses: limericks, couplets,

holiday poetry, simile poetry, haiku nd 36 more

THE DREAM KEEPER

and other poems

by Langston Hughes, illustrated by Brian Pinkney

(inscription in front)

SIX SILLY SHEEP

101 Tongue Twisters

by Joanna Cole & Stephanie Calmenson

TYRANNOSAURUS WAS a BEAST

Dinosaur poems by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Arnold Lobel

WINTER EYES

Poems and paintings by Douglas Florian

ZOO DOINGS

Animal Poems by Jack Prelutsky, pictures by Paul O. Zelinsky

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(9) HARDBACK TITLES:

A CHILD’S FIRST BOOK of POEMS

With pictures by Cyndy Szekeres

A Golden Book, 1981, 5^th printing

A MERRY-MOUSE BOOK of NURSERY RHYMES

By Priscilla Hillman

Doubleday & Company, 1981, 1^st Edition

BALLOONS

And Other Poems

Deborah Chandra, pictures by Leslie Bowman

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990, 1^st Edition

(dj has split at lower spine end)

THE DEEP BLUE SEA

By Bijou Le Tord

Orchard Books, 1990, 1^st printing

Poetic story describing God’s creation of the universe

THE ICE CREAM OCEAN

And Other Delectable Poems of the Sea

Selected and illustrated by Susan Russo

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1984, 1^st Edition

(sticker remnant on dj corner)

THE RANDOM HOUSE BOOK of POETRY for CHILDREN

A Treasury of 572 Poems for Today’s Child

Selected by Jack Prelutsky, illustrations by Arnold Lobel

Random House, 1983

(plastic cover over dust jacket, name written in front, back,

and on lower text block edges)

WINTER POEMS

Selected by Barbara Rogasky, illustrated by Tina Schart Hyman

Scholastic, 1^st printing, October 1994

(Brand new book)

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