Download our new National Poetry Month poster, featuring HOME RUN, TOUCHDOWN, BASKET, GOAL! — a rhyming picture book, perfect for little sports fans! Plus, find a full list of our favorite poetry books on the back. We’re celebrating all month long on social media with our favorite poems and poets–follow along at #mackidspoetry!
Titles featured on the Poetry Month poster include:
- Tony by Ed Galing; illustrated by Erin E. Stead
- Sequoia by Tony Johnston, illustrated by Wendell Minor
- Pug and Other Animal Poems by Valerie Worth, illustrated by Steve Jenkins
- Vivid: Poems & Notes About Color by Julie Paschkis
- Peaceful Pieces: Poems and Quilts About Peace by Anna Grossnickle Hines; artwork by Anna Grossnickle Hines
- Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More! Poems for Two Voices by Carole Gerber; illustrations by Eugene Yelchin
- 28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by
Charles R. Smith Jr.; illustrated by Shane W. Evans - When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems For All Seasons by
Julie Fogliano; pictures by Julie Morstad - It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz’s Story of Hope by
Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet and Hope Anita Smith; illustrations by Lea Lyon - Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems by Bob Raczka
- All of Me by Chris Baron
- Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai
and more!
Poetry by Margarita Engle:
- The Surrender Tree
★ A Newbery Honor Book - Dreams from Many Rivers: A Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems
illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez - BRAVO! Poems About Amazing Hispanics
illustrations by Rafael Lopez - ¡BRAVO! Poemas sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios (Spanish Language Edition)
illustrations by Rafael Lopez - Mountain Dog
illustrations by Olga and Aleksey Ivanov - The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba
- Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
- Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
- The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Illustrated by Sean Qualls