Poetry Collections by a Single Author

If you want to help your kids fall in love with beautiful language, there’s no better (or simpler) way to start than with a poem.

The following books are poetry collections all by a single author—an excellent way to deep dive into a particular poet’s style!

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Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson
I’m Just No Good at Rhyming
Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons
Echo Echo: Reverso Poems About Greek Myths
Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year
Flower, moon, snow: A book of haiku
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face: And Other Poems: Some of the Best of Jack Prelutsky
A Light in the Attic
Falling Up
Every Thing On It
Little Poems for Tiny Ears
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
A Full Moon Is Rising
Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson
Poetry for Young People: Walt Whitman
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold (Junior Library Guild Selection)
Once Around the Sun
Poetry for Young People: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg
Poetry for Young People: Edward Lear
Snowman – Cold = Puddle: Spring Equations
Poetry for Young People: Maya Angelou
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