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Title:
The Bill Martin Jr. big book of poetry
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2008.
Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
ISBN:
9781416939719
General Note:
Includes index.

"Dedicated to the memory of Bill Martin, Jr."--Prelim.
Contents:
Pasture / Robert Frost -- Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field -- Mice / Rose Fyleman -- Caterpillars / Aileen L. Fisher -- Wolf / Georgia Robertson Durston -- Bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson -- Baby chick / Aileen L. Fisher -- A kitten / Eleanor Farjeon -- Crocodile -- Foxes / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Woodpecker / Elizabeth Maddox Roberts -- Weather -- Clouds / Christina G. Rosetti -- Who has seen the wind? / Christina G. Rosetti -- Muddy puddle / Dennis Lee -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- Spring rain / Marchette Chute -- Rainbow / Christina G. Rosetti -- What is pink? / Christina G. Rosetti -- Open house / Aileen L. Fisher -- Little rose tree / Rachel Field -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Metaphor / Eve Merriam -- Eyes in the night / Margaret Wise Brown -- Sleeping outdoors / Marchette Chute -- Star / Jane Taylor -- Until we built a cabin / Aileen L. Fisher -- Wise 46 / Aileen L. Fisher -- Taking turns / Norma Farber -- To look at any thing / John Moffitt -- Hurt no living thing / Christina G. Rosetti -- Months -- New Year's Day / Rachel Field -- To my Valentine -- Marching winds and April showers / Mother Goose -- April rain song / Langston Hughes -- Green grass & dandelions / Margaret Wise Brown -- Autumn / Emily Dickinson -- October / Robert Frost -- Last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost -- I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford -- Thanksgiving Day / L. Maria Child -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Hapy Hanukkah! / Eva Grant -- Christmas song / Margaret Wise Brown -- City song / Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson -- Skyscraper / Dennis Lee -- Subways are people / Lee Bennet Hopkins -- Climbing / Aileen L. Fisher -- In the woods / Margaret Wise Brown -- Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni -- Child of the sun / Lillian M. Fisher -- Postman's song / Margaret Wise Brown -- Park / James S. Tippett -- So many nights / Margaret Wise Brown -- Manhattan lullaby / Rachel Field -- Once upon a time / Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson -- First day of school / Aileen L. Fisher -- Pick me, please / Kalli Dakos -- SOS / Beverly McLoughland -- Take a number / Mary O'Neill -- I brought a worm / Kalli Dakos -- Ten little caterpillars / Bill Martin Jr. -- Word builder / Ann Whitford -- Under the microscope / Lee Bennet Hopkins -- Poor substitute / Kalli Dakos -- Swing / Robert Louis Stevenson -- I've got an itch / Jack Prelutsky -- Papa says / Libby Stopple -- This tooth / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Bursting / Dorothy Aldis -- My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- I am running in a circle / Jack Prelutsky -- Tiptoe / Karla Kuskin -- My dog / Marchette Chute -- Vacation / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Kick a little stone / Dorothy Aldis -- I keep three wishes ready / Annette Wynne -- Dark / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson -- If I were in charge of the world / Judith Viorst -- Painting the gate / May Swenson -- My star / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Dreamer / Langston Hughes -- Grandpa's stories / Langston Huhges -- in [sic] daddy's arms / Folami Abiade -- Promises / David A. Anderson -- Social mixer / X. J. Kennedy -- My little sister / William Wise -- Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst -- I love you little -- On eating porridge made of peas / Louis Phillips -- I eat my peas with honey -- Speak clearly / Martin Gardner -- Let there be pizza on earth / David Conzoneri and Bill Martin Jr. -- Mummy slept late and daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi -- Oodles of noodles / Lucia Hymes -- Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky -- O silver of liver / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Beans, beans, beans / Lucia Hymes -- Norman Norton's nostrils / Colin West -- Kitty caught a caterpillar / Jack Prelutsky -- Snail's pace / Aileen L. Fisher -- Dickery Dean / Dennis Lee -- Crooked man / Mother Goose -- A mouse in her room -- Tombstone / Lucia Hymes -- Eat it all Ealine / Daye Starbird -- Folk who live in backward town / Mary Ann Hoberman.
Language:
English
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