Children grow older, they continue to enjoy the rhythms, rhymes, and imagery to be found in poetry. Here are a variety of children's poetry books, from collections of classics and contemporary poems to poems by Latino poets, concrete poems.

Children grow older, they continue to enjoy the rhythms, rhymes, and imagery to be found in poetry. Here are a variety of children's poetry books, from collections of classics and contemporary poems to poems by Latino poets, concrete poems, and poems that celebrate nature. In addition to the children's poetry books, you will also find several children's books about writing poetry.

Along with the funny poems, Wilson has included more thoughtful selections such as the poem, "Critics" which outlines the story of a young writer who “wrote a story, a wonderful story – the bestest story” he ever saw. The narrator of the poem keeps changing the story based on the advice of some of his critics and ends up with a story that’s a “terrible bore”, a situation many kids have experienced.
Begin to introduce your kindergartner or first grader to a few simple forms of poetry and encourage him to write his own. Cinquains are a great form to begin with. A simple cinquain consists of five lines with the number of syllables increasing in each line, then returning to the beginning form. To compose a cinquain, your child should choose one two syllable word for the poem’s title. The next line will be two words or four syllables that elaborates on the name of the poem. The third line will express an action that related to the title, and will consist of three words or six syllables. For the fourth line, your child should express a feeling about the title using four words or eight syllables.