Book of the Week Archives

Poetry From All Catalogued Years

Motorcycle Song by Diane Siebert (3/11/2002)
This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort by Georgia, selector Heard (9/16/2002)
Summer: An Alphabet Acrostic by Steven Schnur (7/30/2001)
¡Pio Peep! Traditional Spanish Nursery Rhymes. by Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy, selectors. English adapations by Alice Schertle (4/28/2003)
Swing Around the Sun: Poems by Barbara Juster Esbensen (3/31/2003)
The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth by Jaime Adoff (2/10/2003)
DeShawn Days by Tony Medina (3/5/2001)
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (4/1/2002)
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Vera B. Williams (10/8/2001)
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (6/18/2001)
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century Art by Jan Greenburg (4/2/2001)
Iguanas in the Snow and Other Winter Poems/Iguanas en la nieve y otros poemas de invierno by Francisco X Alarcon (12/10/2001)
The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East by Naomi Shihab, selector Nye (9/2/2002)
Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems by Sue Macy (4/23/2001)
Love to Mama by Pat, editor Mora (1/28/2002)
Words with Wings: A Treasury of African American Poetry and Art by Belinda Rochelle (4/9/2001)
Perfect Harmony: A Muscial Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem by Charles R., Jr. Smith (11/18/2002)
Cool Melons -- Turn to Frogs! The Life and Poems of Issa by Matthew Gollub (1/4/1999)
Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets by Naomi Shihab, editor Nye (1/8/2001)
Earth-Shattering Poems by Liz, editor Rosenberg (3/30/1998)
The Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom by Jack Prelutsky, selector (1/1/1997)
Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jiomates risuenos y otros poemas de invierno by Francisco X Alarcon (8/11/1997)
Big Talk: Poems for Four Voices by Paul Fleischman (4/17/2000)
A Child's Calendar by John Updike (7/12/1999)
Counting on the Woods by George Ella Lyon (4/6/1998)
Ordinary Things: Poems from a Walk in Early Spring by Ralph Fletcher (6/2/1997)
Harlem: A Poem by Walter Dean Myers (4/28/1997)
The Other Side: Shorter Poems by Angela Johnson (12/21/1998)
CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse by Juan Felipe Herrera (3/6/2000)
Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms by Charles R. Smith, Jr. (3/15/1999)
The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East by Naomi Shihab, selector Nye (4/20/1998)
The Sky Is Always in the Sky by Karla Kuskin (9/21/1998)
In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall by Various African-American Poets (12/1/1997)
What Have You Lost? by Naomi Shihab, selector Nye (4/12/1999)
Hey You! Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things by Paul B. Janeczko, compiler (4/9/2007)
The Cuckoo's Haiku and Other Birding Poems by Michael J. Rosen (4/17/2009)
Honeybee: Poems and Short Prose by Naomi Shihab Nye (4/7/2008)
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World by Jan Greenberg (4/25/2008)
Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill (8/6/2007)
This Is Just To Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness by Joyce Sidman (1/14/2008)
Birmingham, 1963 by Carole Boston Weatherford (9/24/2007)
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle (1/22/2007)
Handsprings by Douglas Florian (4/24/2006)
She's All That: Poems about Girls by Belinda Hollyer (selector) (12/18/2006)
Casey at the Bat by Thayer Ernest L. (4/10/2006)
Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust by April Pulley Sayre (5/23/2005)
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States by Lori Marie Carlson (4/25/2005)
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms by Paul B. Janeczko (4/18/2005)
A Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson (8/21/2005)
A Maze Me: Poems for Girls by Naomi Shihab Nye (4/4/2005)
Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup by Jorge Argueta (9/1/2009)
Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems by Kristine O'Connell George (1/3/2005)
In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems by Eloise Greenfield (6/28/2004)
What Is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes (12/13/2004)
African Acrostics: A Word in Edgewise by Avis Harley (11/2/2009)
My People by Langston Hughes (11/16/2009)