Akron Public Library

A selection of Mother Goose rhymes, including "Little Tom Tucker," "Hickory, Dickory, Dock," and "Georgie Porgie."

The collected poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay including the poet's last volume Mine the Harvest.

A collection of Frost's poems to be read to and by young people.

"In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed"--Front jacket flap.

Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a woman swallows a bat, an owl, a cat, a ghost, and other things and creatures associated with Halloween.

From the Publisher: The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative fortieth Anniversary Edition. When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with City Lights Bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao. The two of them...

With the grace and precision that have won her legions of admirers, Oliver talks of turtle eggs and house building, of her surprise at the powerful flight of swans, and of the "thousand unbreakable links between us and everything else.".

Pigs galore invade a house and have a wonderful party.

A small boy describes the activities that accompany chicken soup with rice in each month of the year.