A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby. Caldecott Honor.

Runny Babbit lent to wunch And heard the saitress way, "We have some lovely stabbit rew -- Our Special for today." From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends , A Light in the Attic , Falling Up , and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language...

The luminous poetry collection by author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In this collection, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, these poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger...

Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games.

Although Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, only a handful were ever published in her lifetime, and those anonymously. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, one whose unconventional use of language and rhyme anticipated the break with tradition of much modern poetry written after it. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson collects more than 150 of Dickinsons brief but memorable poems....

Follows a group of family members and friends through the course of a day as they learn the importance of all things great and small.

A simple poem describing all kinds of stars that appear in the night sky.

Stories about cats and puppies, bears and mice, snakes, telephones, snowmen, birthdas and friendship. Each short, rhymed story is a litte play for two voices.

Short poems describe the eating habits of many different kinds of animals.

A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.