Book Genre: Poetry

In this rhyming story, a little boy ties a doughnut to his belt.  This doughnut starts an immense parade of creatures and people who all follow him through town.  He has no idea that there is anyone following him, and when he suddenly stops, everyone comes crashing down on top of one...

This rhyming story is about a giraffe who discovers that he can dance when he finds the right music, even after everyone else has told him that he can't.  It is a beautiful way of reminding all of us that we are all capable of doing things if we find the right setting and love in our hearts...

This book is a silly rhyme about the many varied people and creatures in our world.  Some of the text is nonsensical, but that adds to the point that the author is trying to make: no matter what, everyone deserves to be loved...even if they wear pineapple shoes. :)

The colors are...

Newman describes this book as an historical novel in verse. In the introduction, she talks about being scheduled as a speaker for Gay Awareness Week at the University of Wyoming in October, 1998, just days after the brutal attack on Matthew Shepard in Laramie. Newman decided to attend the event...

In Sandow Birk’s Dante’s Inferno, Birk’s starkly beautiful  drawings show a street kid Dante carrying his skateboard through hell, following after a Virgil who often looks like a street bum in his robes. Together they negotiate a Los Angeles-like hell of tattered alleyways, ATMs,...

This vibrant collection of poems has its roots in the spoken word movement of the early 90s, a revitilization of poetry that today may seem almost common place. Slam poetry and spoken word trips off the tongue, rocks out of the body, vibrates in your soul. These poems are meant to be eaten alive...

Filled with succulent references to myth and fairy tale. Introspective and focused on women, this is a powerful work of modern poetry. “The stones are telling each other lies/ about gems hid in their cracked hearts,…/they are all in love with a flashy rock/in the sky.”

This book of poetry really is funny, the first poem, addressed to her niece, is so macabre and inappropriate I dare you not to laugh.

This vibrant collection of poems has its roots in the spoken word movement of the early 90s, a revitilization of poetry that today may seem almost common place. Slam poetry and spoken word trips off the tongue, rocks out of the body, vibrates in your soul. These poems are meant to be eaten alive...

Kevin from Shakespeare Bats Cleanup is back! In that book, Kevin was sidelined from baseball and learned that he also has a passion for writing poetry. In this book, he's still playing baseball, still writing poetry,...

In these sixty-one new poems, Oliver again shows her amazing ability to write words that let us see and love the natural world. In turn, these images in words reveal things that help us see, and on occasion, understand the huge range of human experiences.

Class 6C has a lot to learn this year: all about their new teacher, Mr. Carey, who has long hair and likes to quote Bob Dylan (who's he?), all about the ins and outs of young love, but mostly all about their innate talents. They're putting on a school concert, and everything from soccer...