Here are a few more poetry books for Poetry Month. :-) A great start for children, and part of the "An I Can Read Book" collection is Seasons: a Book of Poems, by Charlotte Zolotow and illustrated by Erik Blegvad. (The first book I read by Zolotow was William's Doll, well worth a read!) Note: Erik Blegvad also illustrated Mud Pies and Other Recipes. (April 29, 2014 post).

For a fun and poetic look at each month, read A Child's Calendar, by John Updike with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. The pictures are wonderful here, and the book is a Caldecott Honor recipient.

Did you know there are poems about egrets? Or locusts? Fleas, and flies? The Oxford Book of Animal Poems collected by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark has all these and much, much more. It's worth a browse just for the variety of both the poems and the artwork.

I remember when Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein came out. It had the perfect poem for a friend of mine, it fit her husband to a 't'! Check out the one about the beard!

An old favorite, The New Modern American & British Poetry, was new as of 1939! I found it on my Mom's 'favorites' shelf. It must have been a text book as it is 'edited with suggestions for study and appreciation by Louis Untermeyer'. There are lots of the poems I learned in school here, or that my folks liked and read to me. An "oldie but goodie" for sure! :-)

Reading Hermit with Dog