poetry

ANIMAL ARK Celebrating Our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures By: Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess and Deanna Kikaido Photography by: Joel Sartore Published: February 14, 2017 Publisher: National Geographic Kids Poetry/Education/Photography This amazing book shares the importance of taking care of our world for the animals that live in it. It gives our youngest children an…

I WONDER: A Book for Children, Parents and Other Grownups By: Jane Altman Illustrated by: Joan Chiverton Published: February 11, 2016 Publisher: Outskirts Press Poetry/Fiction Children are frequently curious about how the world around them works. I remember our children asking, “Why are the sky blue and the grass green?” or “How come giraffes have…

BROWN GIRL DREAMING By: Jacqueline Woodson Published: August 28, 2014 Publisher: Nancy Paulson Books Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry When you see a book full of these stickers on the cover, you know it must be something great.  I snagged it during our school’s Scholastic Book Sale this fall and figured I could read it and so could our…