Celebrate Poetry for Children

April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate the joy of language and literature with your children. Not sure where to start? Try the following children's poets/books of poetry:

Jack Prelutsky's It's Raining Pigs and Noodles (Greenwillow)
Caroline Kennedy’s A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children (Hyperion)
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has one version; there are several)
Jane Yolen's Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children (Boyds Mills Press)
Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends (HarperCollins)
Kenn Nesbitt's When The Teacher Isn't Looking : And Other Funny School Poems (Meadowbrook)

There are many more. Ask your favorite librarian or bookseller for recommendations. Enjoy.