March
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Celebrate in your school or library with these books from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.
Seeing Green
Book Three in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
SEEING GREENWhat was supposed to be a blissed-out vacation at a pristine eco-resort has turned into one of the biggest cases of my life. And just as we were getting into it, Bess, George, and I had to return to River Heights....
Other Formats: eBook
Poetrees
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 6
This book is ripe with poetrees,They're grown to educate and please.You'll see a cedar.Oak tree too.Birch and banyan,Pine and yew.Palm and gumAnd willow tree,Plus more you'll love tree-mendously!
Green with Envy
Book Two in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: February 9, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
Other Formats: eBook
Green-Eyed Monster
Book One in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
Cover By: Michael Frost
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: December 1, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
George, Bess, and I were so excited when we won an amazing vacation at an eco-resort in Costa Rica. Fun, sun, surf -- all in the name of ecology and helping to keep our planet clean. But, as always, dirty business seems to...
Other Formats: eBook
Green Power Solar & Wind Power
By: Peter Lerangis
This edition: Board Book, 64 pages
Publication date: April 14, 2009
Ages: 7 - 10
This useful and fascinating book about energy (solar and wind) comes with a cool solar car to build!YOU can help to keep the planet “green.” Find out all about using energy from the sun and the wind with this...
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today!
The Underwear Salesman
And Other Jobs for Better or Verse
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by: Serge Bloch
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 7 - 10
Have you ever talked at length with an exterminator?Or had a heart-to-heart with an ice sculptor?Or waxed philosophical with an acrobat?No?Well, look inside.
What's the Weather Inside?
By: Karma Wilson
Illustrated by: Barry Blitt
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 6 - 10
Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and...
Other Formats: eBook
Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs,Both carnivores and herbivores.You'll find a big Iguanodon,As well as a clever Tro-o-don.There's Spinosaurus and T. rex,Plus plesiosaurs with giant necks,And others from an ancient age.Want to...
Oops!
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: Edward Koren
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: 7 - 10
Find your funny bone and grab your giggles!You're about to embark on an adventure through the hilarious landscape created by ALAN KATZ and EDWARD KOREN. From the kingdom of His Royal Sloppiness (also known as the prince of...
America at War
Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintingsdivided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed painter and...
If
A Father's Advice to His Son
By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man?Courage.Confidence.Patience.Integrity...For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.In pictures and words, here's what every boy...
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
A Branchful of Birds
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Joan Rankin
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 4 - 10
It's all-you-can-eatat the Bluebird Café,A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet,with berries and snailsand a bluebottle fly,a sip of the lakeand a bite of the sky.A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems that...
Twist
Yoga Poems
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
Come explore yoga in a new way with TWIST,a collection of sixteen original poems sure to inspire even the youngest yogi! Feel the damp soil beneath you as Cobra, and grab hold of a star as Half-Moon. From Low Crow to Eagle and...
Mathematickles!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: June 20, 2006
Ages: 5 - 10
Follow a girl and her cat as they walk through the seasons, and note the mathematical concepts illustrated around them.This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division, simple...
Wonderful Words
Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
Illustrated by: Karen Barbour / Selected by: Lee Bennett Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2004
Ages: 6 - 11
Come, words, come in your every color.Whether we are sharing poems or secrets, acting onstage, or just telling jokes, the words we use are our best friends. Join acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins in this glorious collection...
Ellington Was Not a Street
By: Ntozake Shange
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2004
Ages: 5 - 11
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in...
Knock on Wood
Poems About Superstitions
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
What superstitions do you follow?In this collection of original poems, accomplished poet Janet S. Wong explores seventeen superstitions, some common, others that are less known, and delves into their origins as well as their...
Fireflies at Midnight
By: Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by: Ken Robbins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2003
Ages: 5 - 9
A robin cheerfully greets the day at dawn.A horse nibbles grass under the heat of the midday sun.A rabbit stands still, disappearing into the grass at dusk.As evening falls, a frog tells the world that he's the king of the...
Casey At the Bat
By: Ernest L. Thayer
Illustrated by: Gerald Fitzgerald
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
The outlook wasn't brilliantfor the Mudville nine that day:The score stood four to twowith but one inning more to play....Since 1888 Casey at the Bat has been read and loved by baseball fans around the world. Now Mighty Casey...
The Spider and the Fly
By: Mary Howitt
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 6
"'Will you walk into my parlor,'said the Spider to the Fly..."is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the Fly ends?...
Mrs. Brown on Exhibit
And Other Museum Poems
By: Susan Katz
Illustrated by: R.W. Alley
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 10
Mrs. Brown loves museums -- and so does her class! In fact, these cultural connoisseurs are just wild about field trips. Whether it's sneaking up on an ancient Egyptian mummy, walking into a room of fluttering butterflies, or...
If the Shoe Fits
Voices From Cinderella
By: Laura Whipple
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. In thirty-three poems it brings to life not only the voices of well-loved characters, but also voices of characters not usually heard...
The Flag of Childhood
Poems From the Middle East
Cover By: Suleiman Mansour / Selected by: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and...
Other Formats: eBook
My America
A Poetry Atlas of the United States
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2000
Ages: 8 - 12
In My America, Lee Bennett Hopkins weaves together fifty poems -- grouped by geographic region -- to create a remarkable portrait of the United States. Here is America in all its stunning variety, from the dramatic seacoast of...
Sad Underwear and Other Complications
More Poems for Children and their Parents
By: Judith Viorst
Illustrated by: Richard Hull
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2000
Ages: 6 - 9
Knock, knock.Who's there?Someone with sad underwear.Sad underwear? How can that be?When my best friend's mad at me,Everything is sad.Even my underwear.Only Judith Viorst, with the perfect pitch for the trials of childhood that...
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand
Poems About School
By: Kalli Dakos
Illustrated by: G. Brian Karas
This edition: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publication date: December 10, 1999
Ages: 7 - 10
Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll
And Other School Poems
By: Kalli Dakos
Illustrated by: Joann Adinolfi
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: August 1, 1999
Ages: 7 - 10
The Tree Is Older Than You Are
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mex
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: April 1, 1998
Ages: 7 - 10
If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries
Poems for Children and Their Parents
By: Judith Viorst
Illustrated by: Lynne Cherry
This edition: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1984
Ages: 7 - 10
If you've ever had trouble apologizing or keeping a secret, had a crush or a broken heart, there's a poem here for you! Written with humor and understanding, Judith Viorst's poems are certain to delight children and adults...
Other Formats: Hardcover
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today
The Underwear Salesman
And Other Jobs for Better or Verse
By: J. Patrick Lewis
Illustrated by: Serge Bloch
This edition: Hardcover, 64 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 7 - 10
Have you ever talked at length with an exterminator?Or had a heart-to-heart with an ice sculptor?Or waxed philosophical with an acrobat?No?Well, look inside.
What's the Weather Inside?
By: Karma Wilson
Illustrated by: Barry Blitt
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: 6 - 10
Here are more than 120 hysterical, philosophical, rhetorical, and commonsensical poems and pictures that explore the perfectly not-so-perfect world of picky kids, Miss Muffet's revenge, magic homework wands, yellow snow, and...
Other Formats: eBook
Dinothesaurus
Prehistoric Poems and Paintings
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs,Both carnivores and herbivores.You'll find a big Iguanodon,As well as a clever Tro-o-don.There's Spinosaurus and T. rex,Plus plesiosaurs with giant necks,And others from an ancient age.Want to...
Oops!
By: Alan Katz
Illustrated by: Edward Koren
This edition: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: 7 - 10
Find your funny bone and grab your giggles!You're about to embark on an adventure through the hilarious landscape created by ALAN KATZ and EDWARD KOREN. From the kingdom of His Royal Sloppiness (also known as the prince of...
America at War
Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintingsdivided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed painter and...
If
A Father's Advice to His Son
By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man?Courage.Confidence.Patience.Integrity...For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves.In pictures and words, here's what every boy...
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
A Branchful of Birds
By: Deborah Ruddell
Illustrated by: Joan Rankin
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 4 - 10
It's all-you-can-eatat the Bluebird Café,A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet,with berries and snailsand a bluebottle fly,a sip of the lakeand a bite of the sky.A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems that...
Twist
Yoga Poems
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 7 - 10
Come explore yoga in a new way with TWIST,a collection of sixteen original poems sure to inspire even the youngest yogi! Feel the damp soil beneath you as Cobra, and grab hold of a star as Half-Moon. From Low Crow to Eagle and...
Mathematickles!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: June 20, 2006
Ages: 5 - 10
Follow a girl and her cat as they walk through the seasons, and note the mathematical concepts illustrated around them.This unique collection of math-poems addresses the principles of addition, subtraction, division, simple...
Wonderful Words
Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening
Illustrated by: Karen Barbour / Selected by: Lee Bennett Hopkins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 24, 2004
Ages: 6 - 11
Come, words, come in your every color.Whether we are sharing poems or secrets, acting onstage, or just telling jokes, the words we use are our best friends. Join acclaimed poet Lee Bennett Hopkins in this glorious collection...
Ellington Was Not a Street
By: Ntozake Shange
Illustrated by: Kadir Nelson
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2004
Ages: 5 - 11
In a reflective tribute to the African-American community of old, noted poet Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood home and the close-knit group of innovators that often gathered there. These men of vision, brought to life in...
Knock on Wood
Poems About Superstitions
By: Janet S. Wong
Illustrated by: Julie Paschkis
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
What superstitions do you follow?In this collection of original poems, accomplished poet Janet S. Wong explores seventeen superstitions, some common, others that are less known, and delves into their origins as well as their...
Fireflies at Midnight
By: Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by: Ken Robbins
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2003
Ages: 5 - 9
A robin cheerfully greets the day at dawn.A horse nibbles grass under the heat of the midday sun.A rabbit stands still, disappearing into the grass at dusk.As evening falls, a frog tells the world that he's the king of the...
Casey At the Bat
By: Ernest L. Thayer
Illustrated by: Gerald Fitzgerald
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 1, 2003
Ages: 7 - 10
The outlook wasn't brilliantfor the Mudville nine that day:The score stood four to twowith but one inning more to play....Since 1888 Casey at the Bat has been read and loved by baseball fans around the world. Now Mighty Casey...
The Spider and the Fly
By: Mary Howitt
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 6
"'Will you walk into my parlor,'said the Spider to the Fly..."is easily one of the most recognized and quoted first lines in all of English verse. But do you have any idea how the age-old tale of the Spider and the Fly ends?...
Mrs. Brown on Exhibit
And Other Museum Poems
By: Susan Katz
Illustrated by: R.W. Alley
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 10
Mrs. Brown loves museums -- and so does her class! In fact, these cultural connoisseurs are just wild about field trips. Whether it's sneaking up on an ancient Egyptian mummy, walking into a room of fluttering butterflies, or...
If the Shoe Fits
Voices From Cinderella
By: Laura Whipple
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. In thirty-three poems it brings to life not only the voices of well-loved characters, but also voices of characters not usually heard...
The Flag of Childhood
Poems From the Middle East
Cover By: Suleiman Mansour / Selected by: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and...
Other Formats: eBook
My America
A Poetry Atlas of the United States
By: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: September 1, 2000
Ages: 8 - 12
In My America, Lee Bennett Hopkins weaves together fifty poems -- grouped by geographic region -- to create a remarkable portrait of the United States. Here is America in all its stunning variety, from the dramatic seacoast of...
Sad Underwear and Other Complications
More Poems for Children and their Parents
By: Judith Viorst
Illustrated by: Richard Hull
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2000
Ages: 6 - 9
Knock, knock.Who's there?Someone with sad underwear.Sad underwear? How can that be?When my best friend's mad at me,Everything is sad.Even my underwear.Only Judith Viorst, with the perfect pitch for the trials of childhood that...
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand
Poems About School
By: Kalli Dakos
Illustrated by: G. Brian Karas
This edition: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publication date: December 10, 1999
Ages: 7 - 10
Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll
And Other School Poems
By: Kalli Dakos
Illustrated by: Joann Adinolfi
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: August 1, 1999
Ages: 7 - 10
The Tree Is Older Than You Are
A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mex
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: April 1, 1998
Ages: 7 - 10
If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries
Poems for Children and Their Parents
By: Judith Viorst
Illustrated by: Lynne Cherry
This edition: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publication date: October 1, 1984
Ages: 7 - 10
If you've ever had trouble apologizing or keeping a secret, had a crush or a broken heart, there's a poem here for you! Written with humor and understanding, Judith Viorst's poems are certain to delight children and adults...
Other Formats: Hardcover
