Poetry Reviews

Daytime Nighttime, All Through the Year

Daytime Nighttime, All Through the Year

Diane Lang
Illustrator:  Andrea Gabriel 
Nonfiction Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Dawn Publications, 2017   ISBN: 978-1584696070
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Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote

Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote

Margarita Engle
Illustrator:  Raul Colon 
Historical Fiction Poetry Picture Book
For ages 7 to 10
Peachtree Publishers, 2017   ISBN: 978-1561458561
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The Adventures of Piratess Tilly: Easter Island

The Adventures of Piratess Tilly: Easter Island

Elizabeth Lorayne
Illustrator:  Karen Watson 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
White Wave Press, 2017   ISBN: 978-0997909838
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Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku

Lee Wardlaw
Illustrator:  Eugene Yelchin 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Henry Holt and Co. , 2011   ISBN: 978-0805089950
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Read, Read, Read!

Read, Read, Read!

Amy Ludwig Vanderwater
Illustrator:  Ryan O'Rourke 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
WordSong, 2017   ISBN: 978-1590789759
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

Carole Boston Weatherford
Illustrator:  Jeffery Boston Weatherford 
Poetry
For ages 9 to 12
Simon and Schuster, 2016   ISBN: 978-1481449380
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K is for Kindergarten

K is for Kindergarten

Erin Dealey
Illustrator:  Joseph Cowman 
Poetry and Nonfiction Picture Book  Series
For ages
Sleeping Bear Press, 2017   ISBN: 978-1585369959
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Crossing

Crossing

Philip Booth
Illustrator:   Bagram Ibatoulline 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Candlewick, 2013   ISBN: 978-0763666644
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth
Illustrator:  Ekua Holmes 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 7 to 10
Candlewick, 2017   ISBN: 978-0763680947
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Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics

Bravo!: Poems About Amazing Hispanics

Margarita Engle
Illustrator:  Rafael Lopez 
Poetry nonfiction picture book
For ages 6 to 8
Henry Holt and Co. , 2017   ISBN: 978-0805098761
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The Adventures of Piratess Tilly

The Adventures of Piratess Tilly

Elizabeth Lorayne
Illustrator:  Karen Watson 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
White Wave Press, 2017   ISBN: 978-0997909852
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Family Reunion

Family Reunion

Marilyn Singer
Illustrator:  R. W. Alley 
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Simon and Schuster, 1994   ISBN: 978-0027828832
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Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures

Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures

Kwame Alexander
Photographer: Joel Sartore
Poetry Picture Book
For ages 5 to 8
National Geographic Children's Books, 2017   ISBN: 978-1426327674
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Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis

Jeannine Atkins
Poetry
For ages 13 and up
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017   ISBN: 978-1481459051
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One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance

Nikki Grimes
Illustrator:  a host of talented illustrators 
Poetry
For ages 10 to 14
Bloomsbury , 2017   ISBN: 978-1619635548
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