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10 Favorite Poetry Books for Kids is a list comprised of my favorite poetry collections for children ages 5 and up.

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A kick in the head

[selected by] Paul B. Janeczko ; [illustrated by] Chris Raschka.
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I, too, am America

Langston Hughes ; illustrated by Bryan Collier.
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Mixed beasts, or, A miscellany of rare and fantastic creatures

compiled by Professor Julius Duckworth O'Hare, Esq. ; illustrations by Wallace Edwards ; verses by Kenyon Cox.
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Laugh-eteria

by Douglas Florian.
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A pocketful of poems

by Nikki Grimes ; illustrated by Javaka Steptoe.
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The new kid on the block

by Jack Prelutsky ; drawings by James Stevenson.
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A child's garden of verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson ; pictures by Barbara McClintock.
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Emily Dickinson

edited by Frances S. Bolin ; illustrated by Chi Chung.
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Revolting rhymes

Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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Lemonade, and other poems squeezed from a single word

Bob Raczka ; illustrations by Nancy Doniger.
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