Portland Public Library

Sing a song of popcorn, every child's book of poems, illustrated by Marcia Brown [and others] ; selected by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers [and others]

eng

illustrations

index present

Interest age level : Ages 3 and up

non fiction

Sing a song of popcorn

15163554

illustrated by Marcia Brown [and others] ; selected by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers [and others]

every child's book of poems

A collection of 115 poems by a variety of well-known authors with illustrations by nine Caldecott medalists

Introduction -- 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 -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines -- Index of authors -- About the artists

juvenile

Every child's book of poems