Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year. We first checked this book out of the library about a year ago. Annie was two-and-a-half and she wasn’t very interested in this at the time.
This is a very large and heavy poetry book. It’s almost like in a calendar format because there is a poem listed for each day of the year, organized by month. I like how the poems go with the change of seasons and holidays.
We checked the book out again and now Annie loves it! We just had winter weather this past weekend in North Carolina, so it was fun to read all of the wintry poems of January from this book. We were reading the poems while looking at the icy weather through the window.
Also, the illustrations are gorgeous. We weren’t able to get through all of the poems in this book because we checked it out at the library. But I can see how you can go through the book each day, week, or month and read the corresponding poems.
This poetry book features several classic poets including E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Beatrix Potter, Robert Luis Stevenson, William Shakespeare and many others. It’s a great collection of poetry for children, younger and older, as well as for adults! I enjoyed reading it myself, more than any of the others on this book list.
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Such a great read and what looks like some very good recommendations. ‘Here’s a little poem’ looks quite good. My son is about to turn 3 so I’ll probably have a little browse online and see if I can find that. He loves books and being read to at the moment. Keep up the great work!♥️
I love to read and I have turned my children into little readers. About time to introduce poetry. I will definitely check out some of these. Thanks so much!
I never thought about poetry for children. I don’t know how I can miss that for my girls.
I don’t know if my daughter would love poetry. It’s worth a try I guess. Thanks for sharing.
I have read five and have four of them in my home library that I keep returning to; and love them all. Now I am going to look for the other three (#2,3, and 5 – I do have another Prelutsky though which we love).. thanks for this list.. Poetry, for me , is definitely important
I need to get Where the Sidewalk ends for my kids. Have you ever read, The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky?
Rachel, I saw The New Kid on the Block, but I haven’t picked that one up yet. I will check that one out. Thank you for the suggestion!
Where the sidewalk ends is the only one I’ve read before!! But this is a great list, gonna reserve some from our library now, my kids need more exposure to poetry for sure!
It is nice to introduce kids to poetry at a young age. These sound like wonderful books.
Personally I love Dr. Seuss books and shows and so does my kids. Eric Carle is another great author that I love. I completely agree with you that rhymes and poetry help kids with their vocabularies, self esteem and really just allowing their child like attitudes to shine.
I love poetry. I need to purchase these for my daughter.
We don’t have poetry books in our house, and I think this is the best time for me to buy some books for my kids. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
I don’t believe we have any poetry books, I’ll have to get a few of these for our daughter!
I have always loved poetry! I need to pick up some poetry books for my little one.
I’ll be on the look out for these books. These are great selections. Green Eggs and Ham used to be my oldest boy’s favorite book too. He started reading sight words after that.
These are great recommendations. Thank you for sharing! I need to check out the Mister Rogers book!