Here is a stunning collection of poetry ranging from ancient to contemporary, gloriously illustrated in full color by nine Caldecott Medal-winning artists--Marcia Brown, Leo and Diane Dillon, Richard Egielski, Trina S. Hyman, Arnold Lobel, Maurice Sendak, Marc Simont, and Margot Zemach. Booklist Best Book of the '80s and Editors' Choice; Horn Book Fanfare Book; School Library Journal Best Book of the Year; ALA Notable Children's Book.

Contents:

FUN WITH RHYMES: illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

from Jamboree by David McCord

W by James Reeves

K, C, R, X, Z by Margaret and John Travers Moore

What They Said German Nursury Rhyme translated by Rose Fyleman

My Name Is . . . by Pauline Clarke

I Want You to Meet . . . by David McCord

A Pig Tale by James Reeves

Five Little Squirrels by Unknown author

Lulu, Lulu, I've a Lilo by Charlotte Pomerantz

Where Do These Words Come From? by Charlotte Pomerantz

MOSTLY WEATHER: illustrated by Marcia Brown

So Long as There's Weather by Tamara Kitt

Weather by Eve Merriam

Weather by Marchette Chute

Clouds by Christina G. Rosetti

Rain by Robert Louis Stevenson

Rain, Rain, Go Away by Unknown author

Galoshes by Rhoda Bacmeister

I Heard a Bird Sing by Oliver Herford

April Rain Song by Langston Hughes

Lo, the Winter Is Past from The Bible

Furry Bear by A.A. Milne

The More it Snows by A.A. Milne

from A Popcorn Song by Nancy Byrd Turner

Snowflakes by David McCord

First Snow by Marie Louise Allen

Sunflakes by Frank Asch

Four Seasons by Unknown author

Our Tree by Marchette Chute

The North Wind Doth Blow by unknown author

Dragon Smoke by Lilian Moore

Rain Poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Rain by Myra Cohn Livingston

Wind Song by Lilian Moore

Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina G. Rossetti

To a Red Kite by Lilian Moore

Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

SPOOKY POEMS: illustrated by Margot Zemach

The Old Wife and the Ghost by James Reeves

from The Witch of Willowby Wood by Rowena Bennett

The Pumpkin by Robert Graves

The Bat by Theodore Roethke

from Knitted Things by Karla Kuskin

Someone by Walter de la Mare

STORY POEMS: illustrated by Maurice Sendak

The Gingerbread Man by Rowena Bennett

The Jumblies by Edward Lear

There Was a Crooked Man Nursury Rhyme

from Adventures of Isabel by Ogdon Nash

MOSTLY ANIMALS: illustrated by Arnold Lobel

Good Morning by Muriel Sipe

What in the World? by Eve Merriam

The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay

My Cat, Mrs. Lick-a-Chin by John Ciardi

From a Very Little Sphinx by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I Have a Lion by Karla Kuskin

Dogs by Marchette Chute

The Camel by Ogden Nash

Necks by Rowena Bennett

When You Talk to a Monkey by Rowena Bennett

Tails by Rowena Bennett

Who Lived in a Shoe? by Beatrix Potter

Mice by Rose Fyleman

To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no by William Butler Yeats

Little Snail by Hilda Conkling

Snail by John Drinkwater

The Duck by Ogden Nash

The Little Turkey by Vachel Lindsay

The Prayer of the Little Ducks by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, translated by Rumer Godden

Grandpa Bear's Lullaby by Jane Yolen

Firefly by Elizabeth Maddox Roberts

The Caterpillar by Christina G. Rossetti

Hurt No Living Thing by Christina G. Rossetti

Pachycephalosaurus by Richard Armour

The Steam Shovel by Rowena Bennett

Buffalo Dusk by Carl Sandburg

For a Bird by Myra Cohn Livingston

MOSTLY PEOPLE: illustrated by Marc Simont

On Our Way by Eve Merriam

Big Little Boy by Eve Merriam

Lengths of Time by Phyllis McGinley

Day Before Christmas by Marchette Chute

Here Comes the Band by William Cole

Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni

To Meet Mr. Lincoln by Eve Merriam

from Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg

Paper I by Carl Sandburg

from Paper II by Carl Sandburg

Beginning on Paper by Ruth Krauss

We Must Be Polite by Carl Sandburg

Politeness by A.A. Milne

There's Someone I Know by Jack Prelutsky

My Favorite Word by Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.

Tree House by Shel Silverstein

Brother by Mary Ann Hoberman

Houses by Mary Britton Miller

MOSTLY NONSENSE: illustrated by Richard Egielski

Oh, Did You Hear? by Shel Silverstein

If I Were a . . . by Karla Kuskin

Nicholas Ned by Laura E. Richards

If We Walked on Our Hands by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

A Funny Man by Natalie Joan

The Folk Who Live in Backward Town by Mary Ann Hoberman

Eletelephony by Laura E. Richards

The Spaghetti Nut by Jack Prelutsky

Old Man and the Cow by Edward Lear

Old Man of Peru by Unknown author

A Young Farmer of Leeds by Unknown author

A Young Lady from Glitch by Tamara Kitt

SEEING, FEELING, THINKING: illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

What Is Pink? by Christina G. Rosetti

Until I Saw the Sea by Lilian Moore

Poem by Langston Hughes

8 A.M. Shadows by Patricia Hubbell

The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

How to Tell the Top of the Hill by John Ciardi

who knows is the moon's by e.e. cummings

Night Creature by Lilian Moore

Mrs. Peck-Pigeon by Eleanor Farjeon

A Bird by Emily Dickinson

Foxes by Mary Ann Hoberman

Winter Moon by Langston Hughes

IN A FEW WORDS: illustrated by Marcia Brown

from Firefly by Li Po

Fireflies by Mary Ann Hoberman

A Mother by Issa

Conversation by Buson

Snow Melting by Ruth Krauss

Mirrorment by A.R. Ammons

Rocks by Florence Parry Heide

Snow by Issa