Sing a song of popcorn: every child's book of poems

Fun With Rhymes: / Trina Schart Hyman

Jamboree / David McCord

W / James Reeves

K, C, R, X, Z / Margaret and John Travers Moore

What they said: German nursery Rhyme / Rose Fyleman

My name is / Pauline Clarke

I want you to meet / David McCord

Pig tale / James Reeves

Five little squirrels / Unknown

Lulu, lulu, I've a lilo / Charlotte Pomerantz

Where do these words come from? / Charlotte Pomerantz

Mostly Weather / Marcia Brown:

So long as there's weather / Tamara Kitt

Weather / Eve Merriam

Weather / Marchette Chute

Clouds / Christina G Rossetti

Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson

Rain, rain, go away / Unknown

Galoshes / Rhoda Bacmeister

I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford

April rain song / Langston Hughes

Lo, the winter is past / Bible

Furry bear / A A Milne

More it snows / A A Milne

Popcorn song / Nancy Byrd Turner

Snowflakes / David McCord

First snow / Marie Louise Allen

Sunflakes / Frank Asch

Four seasons / Unknown

Our tree / Marchette Chute

North wind doth blow / Unknown

Dragon smoke / Lilian Moore

Rain poem / Elizabeth Coatsworth

Rain / Myra Chon Livingston

Wind song / Lilian Moore

Who has seen the wind? / Christina G Rossetti

To a red kite / Lilian Moore

Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost

Spooky Poems / Margot Zemach:

Old wife and the ghost / James Reeves

Witch of Willowby wood / Rowena Bennett

Pumpkin / Robert Graves

Bat / Theodore Roethke

Knitted things / Karla Kuskin

Someone / Walter de la Mare

Story Poems / Maurice Sendak:

Gingerbread man / Rowena Bennett

Jumblies / Edward Lear

There was a crooked man / Nursery rhyme

Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash

Mostly Animals / Arnold Lobel:

Good morning / Muriel Sipe

What in the world? / Eve Merriam

Mysterious cat / Vachel Lindsay

My cat, Mrs lick-a-chin / John Ciardi

From a very little sphinx / Edna St Vincent Millay

I have a lion / Karla Kuskin

Dogs / Marchette Chute

Camel / Ogden Nash

Necks / Rowena Bennett

When you talk to a monkey / Rowena Bennett

Tails / Rowena Bennett

Who lived in a shoe? / Beatrix Potter

Mice / Rose Fyleman

To a squirrel at kyle-na-no / William Butler Yeats

Little snail / Hilda Conkling

Snail / John Drinkwater

Duck / Ogden Nash

Little Turtle / Vachel Lindsay

Prayer of the little ducks / Carmen Bernos de Gasztold and Rumer Godden

Grandpa bear's lullaby / Jane Yolen

Firefly / Elizabeth Maddox Roberts

Caterpillar / Christina G Rossetti

Hurt no living thing / Christina G Rossetti

Pachycephalosaurus / Richard Armour

Steam shovel / Rowena Bennett

Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg

For a bird / Myra Cohn Livingston

Mostly People / Marc Simont:

On our way / Eve Merriam

Big little boy / Eve Merriam

Lengths of time / Phyllis McGinley

Day before Christmas / Marchette Chute

Here comes the band / William Cole

Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni

To meet Mr Lincoln / Eve Merriam

Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg

Paper I / Carl Sandburg

Paper II / Carl Sandburg

Beginning on paper /Ruth Krauss

We must be polite / Carl Sandburg

Politeness / A A Milne

There's someone I know / Jack Prelutsky

My favorite word / Lucia and James L Hymes Jr

Tree house / Shel Silverstein

Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman

Houses / Mary Britton Miller

Mostly Nonsense / Richard Egielski:

Oh did you hear? / Shel Silverstein

If I were a / Karla Kuskin

Nicholas Ned / Laura E Richards

If we walked on our hands / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Funny man / Natalie Joan

Folk who live in backward town / Mary Ann Hoberman

Eletelephony / Laura E Richards

Spaghetti nut / Jack Prelutsky

Old man and the cow / Edward Lear

Old man of Peru / Unknown

Young farmer of Leeds / Unknown

Young Lady from glitch / Tamara Kitt

Seeing, Feeling, Thinking / Leo and Diane Dillon:

What is pink? / Christina G Rossetti

Until I saw the sea / Lilian Moore

Poems / Langston Hughes

8 am shadows / Patricia Hubbell

Swing / Robert Louis Stevenson

How to tell the top of the hill / John Ciardi

who know if the moon's / e e cummings

Night creature / Lilian Moore

Mrs Peck-pigeon / Eleanor Farjeon

Bird / Emily Dickinson

Foxes / Mary Ann Hoberman

Winter moon / Langston Hughes

In A Few Words / Marcia Brown:

Firefly / Li Po

Fireflies / Mary Ann Hoberman

Mother / Issa

Conversation / Buson

Snow melting / Ruth Krauss

Mirrorment / A R Ammons

Rocks / Florence Parry Heide

Snow / Issa

About the artists.