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Ubiquitous

Celebrating Nature's Survivors

by Sidman, Joyce

From the creators of the Caldecott Honor Book Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems . . .Ubiquitous (yoo-bik-wi-tuhs): Something that is (or seems to ...

Orangutan Tongs

Poems to Tangle Your Tongue

by Agee, Jon

Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course--everyone has! It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's alway...

Way Up and Over Everything

by McGill, Alice

In this retelling of a folktale, five Africans escape the horrors of slavery by simply disappearing into thin air.

Cowboy & Octopus

by Scieszka, Jon

Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and . . . Octopus? Yes, that's right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus—the next great pair to become a...

Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars

Space Poems and Paintings

by Florian, Douglas

"Twenty whimsical poems about space." amazon.com

Handel, Who Knew What He Liked

by Anderson, M. T.

A man who would later compose some of the world's most beautiful music is shown as a stubborn little boy with a mind of his own.

Larky Mavis

by Cole, Brock

Having found a tiny baby in a peanut shell, Larky Mavis calls him Heart's Delight and carries him around as he grows bigger, to the confusion and anger of the ...

Awful Ogre's Awful Day

by Prelutsky, Jack

In a series of poems, Awful Ogre rises, grooms himself, dances, pens a letter, and goes through other activities as the day passes.

Mysterious Thelonious

by Raschka, Christopher

Matches the tones of the diatonic scale to the values of the color wheel in presenting a portrait of the work of the Afro-American jazz musician and composer o...