Fifteen nighttime poems by Nikki Giovanni, Norma Farber, Eleanor Farjeon, Beatrice Schenk de Regnier, and other well-known poets.

Short verselike definitions of words from A to Z. Poems include a word or words that begin with the letter featured.

Noted children's poet Lee Bennett Hopkins recounts his life and describes how his daily activities and writing process are interwoven.

In the stillness of a Bethlehem stable, after the shepherds and animals leave, Mary sings a lullaby to her newborn son, enjoying the wonder and awe of his birth and pondering what his life will bring.

A crisp wind blows. A voice howls. Masked figures dance by moonlight. And the taste of chocolate is in everyone's mouth. It's Halloween! Lee Bennett Hopkins captures the spirit of everyone's favorite holiday in this sweet and spooky collection of poems for beginning readers.

A collection of poems especially chosen to be read aloud, by authors ranging from Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson to Gwendolyn Brooks and David McCord.

A collection of more than twenty humorous poems about dinosaurs by such writers as Jane Yolen, Madeleine Comora, and Philip Yates.

A collection of fifty-three poems and selections from poems focusing on the people and places encountered by the nineteenth-century American writer from his mid-thirties through his early seventies.

A collection of poems about holidays and seasons, organized chronologically from New Year to Christmas.

A collection of poems all about birthdays.