Humorous poems about such strange creatures and people as Baloney Belly Billy and the Gloopy Gloopers.

A collection of eighteen poems about dinosaurs, by authors including Lee Bennett Hopkins, Lilian Moore, and Myra Cohn Livingston.

A collection of 148 poems on a variety of topics by 62 modern poets who provide commentary on their individual works.

A spirited dog describes what he enjoys doing each month of the year.

In this narrative poem told in Cajun dialect, Pierre the alligator is left behind in the bayou after helping Santa pull his skiff on Christmas Eve.

In a series of poems, Awful Ogre rises, grooms himself, dances, pens a letter, and goes through other activities as the day passes.

Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.