April 2009
RFB&D Librarian's Choice Books

April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, we are introducing lesson plans on books from our audiobook collection that feature poets such as William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Verna Aardema, Nancy Tillman, Folami Abiade, Paul Fleischman and more. There are lesson plans for the juvenile books at ww.learningthroughlistening.org.

Juvenile Titles

HP968

Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain a Nandi tale
Aardema, Verna. Puffin Books 1983, c1981. Grades K-3.

JD022

The brothers' war Civil War: voices in verse
Lewis, J. Patrick. National Geographic c2007. [Grades 5-9].

HF230

A child's garden of verses
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Puffin Books 1994. Grades 4-7.

JC726

Horton hears a Who!
Seuss. Random House c1982. Pre-school - grade 3.

GT142

The Hudson book of poetry: 150 poems worth reading.
McGraw-Hill c2002. Grades 9 - 12.

HQ037

In Daddy's arms I am tall: [African Americans celebrating fathers].
Lee & Low Books Inc. c1997. 1st ed. Grades K-3.

JC475

On the night you were born
Tillman, Nancy. Feiwel and Friends 2006, c2005. 1st Feiwel and Friends ed.
[Pre-school - grade 3].

HG072

Runny Babbit: a billy sook
Silverstein, Shel. HarperCollins c2005. 1st ed. Grades 4-7.

JD773

Thanks a million
Grimes, Nikki. Greenwillow Books c2006. 1st ed. Grades K-4.

HF658

Where the sidewalk ends: the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein.
Silverstein, Shel. HarperCollins c2004. 30th anniversary special ed. [Grades
4-7].

Adult/Teen Titles

HF233

The complete poems of Emily Dickinson
Dickinson, Emily. Little, Brown and Co. 1961, c1960. 1st paperback ed.

JH720

Eight American Poets: Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John
Berryman, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, James Merrill : an
anthology
Vintage Books 1997, c1994. 1st Vintage Books ed.

HC094

Her blue body everything we know: earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete
Walker, Alice. Harcourt, Inc. c2003.

JH069

The Norton book of light verse
Norton c1986.

JJ058

Open range: poetry of the reimagined West
Ghost Road Press c2007. 1st ed.

GR805

Poems to read: a new favorite poem project anthology
W.W. Norton c2002. 1st ed.

JC728

Poems, prose, and letters
Bishop, Elizabeth. Library of America c2008.

HS931

Selected poems
Sandburg, Carl. Library of America c2006.

JD201

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: a new verse translation
W.W. Norton c2007. 1st American ed.

JD777

Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005
Hass, Robert. Ecco c2007. 1st ed.

April 2009 RFB&D Librarian's Choice Books