Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected for Boys and Girls
(From Amazon): Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry.Helen Ferris edited 17 books for young readers and was editor-in-chief of the Junior Literary Guild from 1929–1959.Leonard Weisgard was one of the foremost illustrators in the children’s book field, with more than 200 books to his name.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780385076968
- Print Status
- In Print
- Poems
- 141
- Pages
- 608
- Suggested Grades
- Early Years - 8th
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company Inc
- Edition
- New title
- Copyright
- 1957
Poems
- 1 Me/Everybody says
- 2 My Inside Self/Washing
- 3 I Want to Know/Somewhere
- 4 Halfway Down/This is My rock
- 5 The Secret Cavern/The Land of Story Books
- 6 I'd Leave/A Book
- 7 My Shadow/The Invisible Playmate
- 8 Wishing/Rathers
- 9 A word Fitly Spoken/The Vape-Boy
- 10 I Am/A Little Song of Life
- 11 For a Child/Primer Lesson
- 12 The Day before April/Beauty
- 13 Barter/Good Company
- 14 Measure Me Sky/Hold Fast Your Dreams
- 15 A Child's Thought of God/My Gift
- 16 A Song of Greatness/He That Is Slow to Anger
- 17 A Child's Prayer/A Grace for a Child
- 18 The Lord is My Shepherd
- 19 Song for a Little house/We thank Thee
- 20 Let's Be Merry/What Do They Do?
- 21 Only One Mother/Mother
- 22 When Mother reads Aloud/Her Words
- 23 Father's Story/Father
- 24 Automobile Mechanics/Daddy Fell not the Pond
- 25 To my Son, Aged Three/Infant Joy
- 26 A Baby's Feet/Little
- 27 In Go-Cart So Tin/Slippery
- 28 Sisters/Two in Bed
- 29 Our Little Sister/Big Brother
- 30 The Quarrel/The Cupboard
- 31 Afternoon with Grandmother/Animal Crackers
- 32 Setting the Table/Manners
- 33 I've Go a New Book/A Child's Grace
- 34 A Pop Corn Song/When Young Melissa Sweeps
- 35 I Like housecleaning/Mumps
- 36 The Land of counterpane/Mr. Nobody
- 37 Little Brother's Secret/The Birthday Child
- 38 Seven Times One/The Children's Hour
- 39 Night/Good Night
- 40 Sweet and Low/Cradle Song
- 41 Wynken, Blynken, and Nod/Slumber Song
- 42 Prayer for this House /Time, You Old Gypsy Man
- 43 The Months/Marjorie's Almanac
- 44 The Bells/Ring Out, Wild Bells
- 45 When Icicles Hang by the Wall/The First Snowfall
- 46 White Fields/Velvet Shoes
- 47 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening/February Twilight
- 48 My Valentine/Song
- 49 Written in March/Who has Seen the Wind?
- 50 The night Wind/Lo, The Winter is Past
- 51 Spring/Awake!
- 52 Pippa's Song/Chanson Innocente
- 53 On Easter Day/April
- 54 April Rain Song/The Rainbow
- 55 I Will Sing Praise/Tis' Merry in Greenwood
- 56 The Cloud/A Day in June
- 57 July/August
- 58 Leisure/September
- 59 School - Bell/Arithmetic
- 60 Our History/Geography
- 61 Autumn/A Vagabond
- 62 The Mist and All/Fog
- 63 November Night/Thanksgiving Day
- 64 Be Thankful unto Him/Christmas Bells
- 65 A Visit from St. Nicholas/An Old Christmas Morn
- 66 Here We Come A-Caroling/Tidings of Great Joy
- 67 Frolic/Playtime
- 68 Allie/Ring a Ring
- 69 A Good Play/Hiding
- 70 Block City/Extremes
- 71 The Bear Hunt/Little Jumping Girls
- 72 marking Song/Roller Skates
- 73 Different Bicycles/The Playhouse Key
- 74 The Lost Doll/Pirate Story
- 75 The Archer/The Kite
- 76 A Swing Song/The Fishing Pole
- 77 Swimming/My Plan
- 78 At the Sea-Side/Lullaby
- 79 Paper Boats/The Kayak
- 80 A Sledding Song/Skating
- 81 Counting -Out Rhymes/Feather or Fur
- 82 At the Garden Gate/Our Little Kinsmen
- 83 Four Things/The Ant Village
- 84 Go to the Ant/The Humble - Bee
- 85 How Doth the Little Busy Bee/The Bees
- 86 The Beetle/Little BlackBug
- 87 Caterpillar/Only My Opinion
- 88 Little Charlie Chipmunk/Spring Cricket
- 89 Splinter/White Butterflies
- 90 The chameleon/The puzzled Centipede
- 91 A Dragon-fly/Fireflies
- 92 The Spring/Alas, Alack!
- 93 Grasshopper Free/An Explanation of the Grasshopper
- 94 To the Lady Bird/Clock a Clay
- 95 Minnow/The Locust
- 96 The Lobster Tail/Mice
- 97 The Mouse/The field Mouse
- 98 The City mouse and the garden Mouse/All but Blind
- 99 Green Moth/Little Snail
- 100 Snail/The Silent Snake
- 101 Starfish/Of a Spider
- 102 The Tree Toad/The Song of the Toad
- 103 A friend in the Garden/Little Horned Toad
- 104 The Little Turtle/The Tortoise in Eternity
- 105 The Wasp/The Worm
- 106 Little Talk/He Prayeth Best
- 107 Near Dusk/End of Summer Poem
- 108 Little Things/ Hurt no living Thing
- 109 Puppy and I/ My Dog
- 110 The Hairy Dog/Dogs and Weather
- 111 Lone Dog/Little Puppy
- 112 The Kitten at play/The Rum Tum Tugger
- 113 The mysterious Cat The Bad kittens
- 114 Hearth/The Runaway
- 115 Noonday Sun/The Horse
- 116 Burro with the Long Ears/The cow
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