Junior Nonfiction Poetry

Welcome to Crawly School for Bugs! Termites, stink bugs, gnats, and every insect in between attend this buzzy school where crickets take classes like how to be annoying in 4 easy steps. Some students struggle with the temptation to eat fellow classmates, while others deal with a mosquito nurse who always wants to draw blood, or attempt to make friends despite their own microscopic size.

A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature.

Illustrations and nighttime-themed poetry celebrate the natural world after dark and describe such subjects as silk-weaving spiders, oak trees that recover from their time in the sun, and a raspberry-leaf-eating porcupette that coos to its mother.

In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleishman verbally re-creates the "booming/boisterous/joyful noise" of insect. the Poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the dron of the honey bee. Eric Beddows's vibrarnt drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own way.

"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--

A collection of poems celebrates the four seasons, including spring, summer, fall, and winter.

Collects poems from the English-speaking world, including those by such notable authors as A.A. Milne, Jack Prelutsky, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.