Brilliant poetry collections for kids

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Poetry collections and anthologies that kids will love.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
18,318 members
511 reviews
½ 4.3
9 Members
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A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
12,180 members
219 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
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3
When We Were Very Young
by A. A. Milne
6,534 members
57 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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4
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
9,520 members
101 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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5
Revolting Rhymes
by Roald Dahl
3,194 members
67 reviews
4.1
5 Members
Moomin_Mama, charl08, norabelle414, skullduggery, jeffza
6
A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems
by Spike Milligan
186 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
Moomin_Mama, charl08, skullduggery
7
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
by Caroline Kennedy
958 members
38 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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8
Falling Up: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
9,166 members
205 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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10
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
by Iona Opie
916 members
14 reviews
4
2 Members
Moomin_Mama, SylviaC
11
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
by Jack Prelutsky
1,118 members
24 reviews
4.2
2 Members
hailelib, skullduggery
12
Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
by Julie Andrews
325 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
skullduggery, deldevries
13
Alligator Pie
by Dennis Lee
593 members
22 reviews
4.2
2 Members
skullduggery, SylviaC
14
Yellow Elephant: A Bright Bestiary
by Julie Larios
93 members
18 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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15
Poems and Prayers for the Very Young
by Martha Alexander
1,142 members
4 reviews
4
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16
The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry
by Louis Untermeyer
42 members
1 review
4
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aulsmith
17
Tasty Poems
by Jill Bennett
31 members
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Soupdragon
18
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
by Tim Burton
4,086 members
63 reviews
4
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Moomin_Mama
19
The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
by Edward Lear
1,420 members
17 reviews
4
Member
Moomin_Mama
20
Cautionary Verses
by Hilaire Belloc
357 members
8 reviews
4.2
Member
Moomin_Mama
21
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T. S. Eliot
7,525 members
102 reviews
4
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cej1027
22
The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination
by Mary Ann Hoberman
183 members
12 reviews
4.1
Member
skullduggery
23
Nicholas Knock and Other People: Poems
by Dennis Lee
46 members
½ 4.5
Member
SylviaC
24
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
by Paul Fleischman
2,511 members
104 reviews
4.1
Member
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25
Come Hither: A Family Treasure
by Walter De la Mare
238 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
SylviaC
26
Garbage Delight
by Dennis Lee
139 members
½ 4.4
Member
SylviaC
27
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry
by Brian Patten
117 members
1 review
4.8
Member
skullduggery
29
A Child's Book of Poems
by Gyo Fujikawa
1,177 members
10 reviews
4
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cej1027
30
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
by Jack Prelutsky
1,100 members
9 reviews
3.9
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31
The Puffin Twentieth-Century Collection of Verse
by Brian Patten
37 members
4
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skullduggery
32
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
by Langston Hughes
1,141 members
21 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
cej1027
33
The Pelican Chorus: and Other Nonsense
by Edward Lear
177 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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34
A Curious Collection of Cats
by Betsy Franco
92 members
15 reviews
4
Member
skullduggery
35
A Child's Anthology of Poetry
by Elizabeth Hauge Sword
657 members
13 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
36
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
by Naomi Shihab Nye
581 members
22 reviews
4.1
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cej1027
37
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
by Beatrice Shenk de Regniers
1,176 members
27 reviews
4.2
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skullduggery
38
Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose
by Scott Gustafson
389 members
12 reviews
½ 4.5
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cej1027
39
Haiku Picturebook for Children
by Keisuke Nishimoto
23 members
3.8
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40
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem: Classic Poems and Playful Parodies
by J. Patrick Lewis
65 members
4 reviews
3.9
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41
Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Poetry and Color
by Mary Le Duc O'Neill
1,460 members
32 reviews
½ 4.3
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42
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes
by Kate Greenaway
308 members
2 reviews
3.1
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43
Don't You Turn Back: Poems
by Langston Hughes
22 members
3 reviews
4
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cej1027
44
The Nursery Rhyme Book
by Helen Cumberbatch
12 members
2
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45
The Frogs and Toads All Sang
by Arnold Lobel
316 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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46
Candy Corn: Poems
by James Stevenson
153 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
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47
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
by Robert Browning
1,521 members
21 reviews
4
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48
Poetry for Young People: Animal Poems
by John Hollander
434 members
4 reviews
4.1
49
The World Is Round
by Gertrude Stein
291 members
5 reviews
3.8
51
The Children's Library: Poems
by Mary E. Burt
105 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5