McKinney Library Kid's Catalog

A series of poems tells how two sisters help each other deal with life while their mother is working and their father has been sent to jail.

A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes.

A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.

With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to camouflage themselves - even how they eat their own skins,...

Collects poems describing the many creatures living in the sea, from the sea horse to the blue whale.

A poem about all the seasons.

A little girl describes a typical Sunday from the moment her mother wakes her up through the different elements of the worship service in church.

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

An anthology of poems about school, plus "Toolbox Tips" that help the reader understand poetry and how poems are written.

This beautiful poetry collection introduces readers to the art of found poetry as the poet writes a 37-line poem, "Nest," then finds 160 smaller poems within it. What can you find in a poem about a robin's nest? Irene Latham masterfully discovers "nestlings" or smaller poems about an astonishing variety of subjects--emotions, wild animals, natural landmarks on all seven continents, even planets and constellations. Each poem is a glorious spark of...