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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.

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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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