April is National Poetry Month! Check out some of these great series on Hoopla with your WNPL card.
Check out some classic Poetry for Kids in a series that includes Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost.
Want something funny? Ode to a Commode by Brian Cleary is part of the Poetry Adventures series. This book is about concrete poems (poems shaped like their subjects). Other books include acrostic poems, limericks, and haikus.
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry by Jack Prelutsky
Have you ever tried to write a poem about a pizza? How about a pig? How about a pigeon, penguin, potato, Ping-Pong, parrot, puppy, pelican, porcupine, pie, pachyderm, or your parents? Jack Prelutsky has written more than one thousand poems about all of these things-and many others. In this book he gives you the inside scoop on writing poetry and shows you how you can turn your own experiences and stories about your family, your pets, and your friends into poems!