Introduction
The short of it
One and all
Beautiful beasts
Delicious dishes
It's about time
Happiness is
Weather and seasons
Sad and sorrowful
Strange and mysterious
Poems from storybooks
The long of it.

The short of it
Auk talk / Mary Ann Hoberman
Rain / Robert Louis Stevenson
A word is dead / Emily Dickinson
Primer lesson / Carl Sandburg
If all the world were paper / Anonymous
There was an old person of Ware / Edward Lear
To his cat / Doris Orgel
Hippopotamus / Mary Ann Hoberman
The little man who wasn't there / Hughes Mearns
The floorless room / Gelett Burgess
There was an old man of Blackheath / Anonymous
Fireflies / Mary Ann Hoberman
One and all
Sometimes / Mary Ann Hoberman
Poem for Rodney / Nikki Giovanni
San Francisco / Francisco X. Alarc?on
My name / Lee Bennett Hopkins
Tit for tat / Christopher Morley
Strategy / Gary Soto
You oughta meet Danitra Brown / Nikki Grimes
A time to talk / Robert Frost
The twins / Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Love that boy / Walter Dean Myers
Antique shop / Carl Carmer
Nancy Hanks / Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Ben?et
I'm nobody! who are you? / Emily Dickinson
Bird talk / Aileen Fisher
Messages from everywhere / Naomi Shihab Nye
Beautiful beasts
The animal store / Rachel Field
Chums / Arthur Guiterman
My cat / Barbara Esbensen
Roosters / Elizabeth Coatsworth
Mary Middling / Rose Fyleman
A frog in a well explains the world / Alice Schertle
Bat patrol / Georgia Heard
The little turtle / Vachel Lindsay
Beavers in November / Marilyn Singer
The puffin / Douglas Florian
Don't every seize a weasel by the tail / Jack Prelutsky
Tiger / Mary Ann Hoberman
The yak / Hilaire Belloc
Eletelephony / Laura E. Richards
Delicious dishes
I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous
Oak leaf plate / Mary Ann Hoberman
Mix a pancake / Christina Rossetti
Yellow butter / Mary Ann Hoberman
The silver fish / Shel Silverstein
Alas, alack! / Walter de la Mare
Raw carrots / Valerie Worth
Soup / Carl Sandburg
My father owns the butcher shop / Anonymous
Miss T. / Walter de la Mare
Old Quin Queeribus / Nancy Byrd Turner
Found and lost / Anne Marie Manfried
To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams
Pretty futility / Elizabeth Coatsworth
It's about time
Time / Mary Ann Hoberman
Marie Lucille / Gwendolyn Brooks
The early morning / Hilaire Belloc
Time to rise / Robert Louis Stevenson
Hurry / Eve Merriam
The days have names / JonArno Lawson
Night / Sara Teasdale
The oak trees are dreaming / Patricia Hubbell
At night / Kristine O'Connell George
Sweet dreams / Ogden Nash
Magic story for falling asleep / Nancy Willard
How far / Mary Ann Hoberman
Happiness is
Happiness / A. A. Milne
Toad by the road / Joanne Ryder
The sun / John Drinkwater
How to tell the top of a hill / John Ciardi
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay
If-ing / Langston Hughes
Things / Eloise Greenfield
The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song of the train / David McCord
The happy egg / Ruth Krauss
Jenny kissed me / James Henry Leigh Hunt
There is a tree / Karla Kuskin
An immorality / Ezra Pound
Weather and seasons
Who has seen the wind? / Christina Rossetti
Summer grass / Carl Sandburg
April rain song / Langston Hughes
Over and under / William Jay Smith
The secret song / Margaret Wise Brown
Fog / Carl Sandburg
Snowspell / Robert Francis
Velvet shoes / Elinor Wylie
Snow / Mary Ann Hoberman
I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford
Sad and sorrowful
Samuel / Bobbi Katz
Song / John Keats
Poem / Langston Hughes
The mouse / Elizabeth Coatsworth
The flattered flying fish / E. V. Rieu
The snare / James Stephens
My father / Mary Ann Hoberman
Dust of snow / Robert Frost
Strange and mysterious
The horseman / Walter de la Mare
Windy nights / Robert Louis Stevenson
Her strong enchantments failing / A. E. Housman
Rapunzel / Adelaide Crapsey
Silver / Walter de la Mare
Where go the boats? / Robert Louis Stevenson
Dinky / Theodore Roethke
That old haunted house / Judith Viorst
The mysterious cat / Vachel Lindsay
Overheard on a saltmarsh / Harold Monro
Journey / Anne Marie Manfried
Old Man Ocean, how do you pound / Russell Hoban
Ariel's song / William Shakespeare
Poems from storybooks
How doth the little crocodile / Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland
Ducks' ditty / Kenneth Grahame, from The wind in the willows
I am Rose my eyes are blue / Gertrude Stein, from The world is round
I won't go down the horrible street / James Thurber, from The wonderful O
Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Roald Dahl, from James and the giant peach
In and out the bushes, up the ivy / Randall Jarrell, from The bat-poet
The road goes ever on and on / J. R. R. Tolkien, from The fellowship of the ring
The long of it
The Jumblies / Edward Lear
Disobedience / A. A. Milne
The camel's hump / Rudyard Kipling
The camel's complaint / Charles E. Carryl
0The llama who had no pajama / Mary Ann Hoberman.