Ocean State Libraries

For children that are simply too naughty for Mother Goose to handle, her sister Spinster Goose knows just how to deal with these uncouth urchins. Fans of Mother Goose are sure to delight in these devilishly twisted alternatives to classic rhymes.

The well-known cummings poem concerns the special joys and fears of childhood.

"Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are? Do you know you can be, What you want to be, If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire all young people to dream big and achieve their goals."...

A collection of poems which show angels guiding, comforting, and protecting African American children during milestones in their lives as well as in the course of everyday activities.

"Ten-year-old Benjamin Giroux's iconic poem conveys what it's like to live with autism."--

A series of poems convey the feelings of a young girl whose sense of joy and security at the family's summer house is shattered when an older boy who lives nearby sexually abuses her.

An illustrated collection of poems about African American children and their mothers.

Brief humorous poems describe each of the fourteen boys and thirteen girls in Ms. Gracie Graves' class.