"Celebrated poets Ted Kooser along with Connie Wanek, and illustrator Richard Jones, explore figures of speech in a spirited and magical way--and invite our imaginations out to play."--From publisher description.

Singer celebrates the joy of movement and the community of dance with a spirited collection of poems. When read aloud, the rhythm of each dance is reflected in the meter of the poem. The CD features Singer reading the poems set to music for each dance.

Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

Not the lamb or the goat or the mule or the dove was born on the first Christmas long ago, but a special child was.

Everything is going wrong as Pastor McDougall tries to get ready for the Christmas Eve play, and it takes a visit from St. Nick to remind him what Christmas is really about.

Contains sixteen poems about children cleaning or arranging things in order.

Each of the exquisite twenty-three poems in this posthumous collection by Valerie Worth carefully distinguishes one animal from all other creatures and captures it in all of its wonderful singularity - from wasp to snake to wren. The way Worth perfectly illuminates the uniqueness of each animal in her precise and elegant free verse will delight both fans of her celebrated Small Poems and readers encountering her poetry for the first time. Breathtakingly...

Thinker isn't just an average puppy--he's a poet. So is his owner, Jace. Together they turn the world around them into verse. here's just one problem: Thinker has to keep quiet in public, and he can't go to school with Jace. That is, until Pets' Day. But when Thinker is allowed into the classroom at last, he finds it hard to keep his true identity a secret.

Introduces children to the work of celebrated American poet Walt Whitman.

A haiku poem about a loveable dog.