March
Music
Celebrate Music in Our Schools Month! Share the joy of making music with your students.
Zebrafish
(Part of Zebrafish)
By: FableVision
Illustrated by: Peter H. Reynolds
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: May 4, 2010
Ages: 10 - 14
Vita is a purple-haired singing queen, and she has big dreams for her rock group, Zebrafish. But when she holds auditions for the back-up band, tryouts are sorely lacking in the musical ability department. Luckily her new...
For Singing Out Loud!
SpongeBob's Book of Showstopping Jokes (Part of SpongeBob SquarePants)
By: David Lewman
This edition: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: 7 - 10
SpongeBob and the Bikini Bottom gang have tons of showbiz advice for aspiring performers everywhere in this hilarious new humor book! No strangers to the stage themselves, whether it’s SpongeBob singing “Gary in...
The Singing Suspects
(Part of Nancy Drew Notebooks)
By: Carolyn Keene
Illustrated by: Jan Naimo Jones / Photographer: Michael Frost
This edition: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2005
Ages: 6 - 9
ROCK-STAR REWARD? OR ROCK-STAR REGRET? There's nothing better than tickets to an Eric Stanley concert -- at least that's what Nancy, George, and Bess think. That's why they enter the River Heights Singing Contest! First prize...
Other Formats: eBook
Joshua's Song
By: Joan Hiatt Harlow
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: April 1, 2003
Ages: 9 - 12
Boston, 1919. It's been a terrible year for thirteen-year-old Joshua Harper. The influenza pandemic that's sweeping the world has claimed his father's life; his voice has changed, so he can't sing in the Boston Boys' Choir...
Other Formats: eBook
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
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy...
Other Formats: eBook
Poetrees
By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: 6 - 10
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his...
Other Formats: eBook
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
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy...
Other Formats: eBook
Green-Eyed Monster
Book One in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective)
By: Carolyn Keene
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
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today!
Underwear Salesman
Underwear Salesman
By: J. Patrick Lewis
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: 6 - 10
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
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...
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: 8 - 12
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings divided 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: 6 - 10
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...
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
By: Deborah Ruddell
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 4 - 10
It's all-you-can-eat at the Bluebird Café, A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet, with berries and snails and a bluebottle fly, a sip of the lake and a bite of the sky. A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems...
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...
Mathematickles!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 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: March 1, 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 1, 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 brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two with 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...
Spider and the Fly
By: Mary Howitt
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 9
"'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...
Other Formats: Hardcover
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
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
Waiting to Waltz
A Childhood
By: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by: Stephen Gammell
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2001
Ages: 10 - 14
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...
Other Formats: Hardcover
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 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: August 1, 1995
Ages: 7 - 10
Other Formats: eBook
The Place My Words Are Looking For
What Poets Say About and Through Their Work
By: Paul B. Janeczko
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: April 30, 1990
Ages: 9 - 12
Poetry Month
April is Poetry Month! Share some poems with your students today
Spinster Goose
Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children
By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Sophie Blackall
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 8, 2011
Ages: 5 - 10
Some children are simply too naughty for Mother Goose to handle. Luckily her sister Spinster Goose knows just how to deal with these uncouth urchins. Her school is home to some world-class troublemakers: they bite and pinch,...
Underwear Salesman
Underwear Salesman
By: J. Patrick Lewis
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: 6 - 10
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
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...
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: 8 - 12
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings divided 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: 6 - 10
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...
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
Today at the Bluebird Cafe
By: Deborah Ruddell
This edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2007
Ages: 4 - 10
It's all-you-can-eat at the Bluebird Café, A grasshopper-katydid-cricket buffet, with berries and snails and a bluebottle fly, a sip of the lake and a bite of the sky. A world of birds unfolds in twenty-two vivid poems...
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...
Mathematickles!
By: Betsy Franco
Illustrated by: Steven Salerno
This edition: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
Publication date: July 1, 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: March 1, 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 1, 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 brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two with 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...
Spider and the Fly
By: Mary Howitt
Illustrated by: Tony DiTerlizzi
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: 6 - 9
"'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...
Other Formats: Hardcover
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
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
Waiting to Waltz
A Childhood
By: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrated by: Stephen Gammell
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2001
Ages: 10 - 14
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...
Other Formats: Hardcover
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 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: August 1, 1995
Ages: 7 - 10
Other Formats: eBook
The Place My Words Are Looking For
What Poets Say About and Through Their Work
By: Paul B. Janeczko
This edition: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publication date: April 30, 1990
Ages: 9 - 12
