Central Kansas Library System

A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters...

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

A collection of poems about birds to be read aloud by two voices.

"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--

A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.

Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.

Evokes the land, animals, and people of the Middle West in poetic text and illustrations.

A collection of poems of boys' and girls' fun at Halloween.

Celebrates the diversity of America, the land of the free, where millions of people from many different walks of life share the lakes, mountains, prairies, forests, and deserts that make up this great country.

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.