This deceptively slender volume contains a treasure-trove of poems. Each page is crammed with verse and illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Arnold Lobel. Everyone's favorite poems are complemented by fresh new voices and organized into such unusual themes as food, the city, spooky poems, and word play.

A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.

A collection of limericks on such topics as accidents and incidents, peculiar people, strange shapes, and holidays.

Presents 17 poems about ghosts.

An anthology of poems grouped in sixteen parts, each devoted to a particular subject such as animals, seasons, holidays, and people.

A collection of epic poems telling stories from legend, history, and romance: The Prisoner of Chillon, by Lord Byron; Arethusa, by P. B. Shelley; The Eve of St. Agnes [by J. Keats] La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by J. Keats; Lady Geraldine's Courtship by E. B.lBrowning; Morte d'Arthur [by Lord Tennyson] The Revenge, by Lord Tennyson; Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister [by R. Browning] "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by R. Browning; Sohrab and Rustum,...

A collection of English and American poems and parodies of them.

A collection of short poems by such writers as Margaret Wise Brown, Langston Hughes, Jane Yolen, and Marchette Chute, all illustrated with rabbits, mice, cats, bears, and other animals.