Best Children's Poetry Books

1.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends 4.35 avg rating — 1,482,937 ratings
2.
A Light in the Attic
A Light in the Attic 4.36 avg rating — 470,712 ratings
3.
A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses 4.27 avg rating — 26,590 ratings
4.
When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3)
When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the-Pooh, #3) 4.23 avg rating — 26,666 ratings
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Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4)
Now We Are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh, #4) 4.28 avg rating — 23,181 ratings
6.
Revolting Rhymes
Revolting Rhymes 4.15 avg rating — 21,594 ratings
7.
Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
Love That Dog (Jack, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 47,525 ratings
8.
A Pizza the Size of the Sun
A Pizza the Size of the Sun 4.12 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children 4.26 avg rating — 1,667 ratings
10.
The New Kid on the Block
The New Kid on the Block 4.06 avg rating — 10,896 ratings
11.
Green Eggs and Ham
Green Eggs and Ham
by: Dr. Seuss
4.31 avg rating — 830,104 ratings
12.
Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People, #20)
Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People, #20) 4.34 avg rating — 882 ratings
13.
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reverso Poems 4.13 avg rating — 4,537 ratings
14.
The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree 4.38 avg rating — 1,209,700 ratings
15.
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices 3.99 avg rating — 10,807 ratings
16.
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems 4.06 avg rating — 719 ratings
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The Night Before Christmas
The Night Before Christmas 4.40 avg rating — 126,560 ratings
18.
The Real Mother Goose
The Real Mother Goose 4.33 avg rating — 36,241 ratings
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Rainy Day Poems
Rainy Day Poems 3.91 avg rating — 123 ratings
20.
Alligator Pie
Alligator Pie 4.09 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Monster Poems for Monstrous Kids (Top of the Wardrobe Gang, #4)
Monster Poems for Monstrous Kids (Top of the Wardrobe Gang, #4) 4.65 avg rating — 62 ratings
22.
Brown Girl Dreaming
Brown Girl Dreaming 4.15 avg rating — 91,855 ratings
23.
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 4.07 avg rating — 29,322 ratings
24.
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold
Winter Bees & Other Poems of the Cold 4.27 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
25.
Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It?
Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It? 4.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Hot Water Bottle Hill
Hot Water Bottle Hill 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
27.
Every Time I Climb a Tree
Every Time I Climb a Tree 4.06 avg rating — 82 ratings
28.
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers 3.64 avg rating — 3,679 ratings
29.
Star of Wonder
Star of Wonder 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
30.
The Bat-Poet
The Bat-Poet 4.26 avg rating — 924 ratings
31.
Sad Underwear and Other Complications: More Poems for Children and Their Parents
Sad Underwear and Other Complications: More Poems for Children and Their Parents 3.85 avg rating — 144 ratings
32.
Red Sings from Treetops
Red Sings from Treetops really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,059 ratings
33.
The Dragons are Singing Tonight
The Dragons are Singing Tonight 4.22 avg rating — 875 ratings
34.
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook 4.11 avg rating — 9,526 ratings
35.
Big Book of Poetry
Big Book of Poetry 4.22 avg rating — 311 ratings
36.
Forest Has a Song: Poems
Forest Has a Song: Poems 4.22 avg rating — 395 ratings
37.
Animals Animals
Animals Animals 4.20 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
38.
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
by: Dr. Seuss
4.18 avg rating — 212,505 ratings
39.
It's Weird to Grow a Beard
It's Weird to Grow a Beard
by: Neal Fox
4.43 avg rating — 37 ratings
40.
A Fairy Different Life
A Fairy Different Life
by: Goob
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
41.
Hide Alex Hide (Alex, Dragon & Spider Book 1)
Hide Alex Hide (Alex, Dragon & Spider Book 1) 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
42.
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
by: Adam Rex
4.21 avg rating — 2,204 ratings
43.
Suzie Bitner Was Afraid of the Drain
Suzie Bitner Was Afraid of the Drain 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
43.
Louder Alex Louder
Louder Alex Louder 4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
43.
Short and Tall
Short and Tall 4.75 avg rating — 28 ratings
46.
It's Raining Pigs and Noodles
It's Raining Pigs and Noodles 4.16 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems
Talking Like the Rain: A Read-to-Me Book of Poems 4.16 avg rating — 170 ratings
48.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 4.40 avg rating — 11,064 ratings
49.
Each Peach Pear Plum
Each Peach Pear Plum 4.23 avg rating — 18,560 ratings
50.
The Lorax
The Lorax
by: Dr. Seuss
4.35 avg rating — 363,660 ratings
51.
peculiar poems for pint size provocateurs
peculiar poems for pint size provocateurs 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
52.
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night
Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night 3.99 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
53.
Jelly Belly
Jelly Belly 4.41 avg rating — 155 ratings
54.
Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku 4.06 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
55.
The poet's house: An anthology of poems
The poet's house: An anthology of poems 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
56.
Something Big Has Been Here
Something Big Has Been Here 4.16 avg rating — 2,285 ratings
57.
Vile Verses
Vile Verses 4.16 avg rating — 999 ratings
58.
Please Mrs. Butler
Please Mrs. Butler 4.28 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
59.
Wynken, Blynken, & Nod
Wynken, Blynken, & Nod 4.26 avg rating — 1,566 ratings
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The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury 4.20 avg rating — 227 ratings
61.
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry 4.21 avg rating — 115 ratings
62.
Insectlopedia
Insectlopedia 4.11 avg rating — 348 ratings
63.
Poems to Learn by Heart
Poems to Learn by Heart 4.18 avg rating — 838 ratings
64.
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems
Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems 4.08 avg rating — 1,139 ratings
65.
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months
Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months 4.24 avg rating — 30,404 ratings
66.
Horton Hears A Who!
Horton Hears A Who!
by: Dr. Seuss
4.22 avg rating — 112,871 ratings
67.
The Spider and the Fly
The Spider and the Fly 4.22 avg rating — 9,852 ratings
68.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
by: Dr. Seuss
4.38 avg rating — 439,085 ratings
69.
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha 3.89 avg rating — 3,349 ratings
70.
The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses
The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses 4.04 avg rating — 339 ratings
71.
Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry
Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry 3.97 avg rating — 273 ratings
71.
The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Tubb: A Bath-time Saga in Verse
The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Tubb: A Bath-time Saga in Verse it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
73.
Wings
Wings 4.18 avg rating — 505 ratings
73.
Toilet Trouble: Poems for Beginner Readers (Grades K-2), Volume 2
Toilet Trouble: Poems for Beginner Readers (Grades K-2), Volume 2 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Take a Hike!: Poems for Intermediate Readers (Grades 3-5), Volume 2
Take a Hike!: Poems for Intermediate Readers (Grades 3-5), Volume 2 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
73.
Bedtime Story: Poems for Advanced Readers (Grades 5-7), Volume 2
Bedtime Story: Poems for Advanced Readers (Grades 5-7), Volume 2 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
77.
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons 4.24 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
78.
Wendy the Wicked Witch
Wendy the Wicked Witch
by: Ann Perry
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
79.
A Dazzling Display of Dogs
A Dazzling Display of Dogs 3.94 avg rating — 232 ratings
79.
Hand Rhymes
Hand Rhymes 3.78 avg rating — 166 ratings
81.
Harlem (Picture Books)
Harlem (Picture Books) 4.10 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
81.
The Maine Coon's Haiku and Other Poems for Cat Lovers
The Maine Coon's Haiku and Other Poems for Cat Lovers 3.72 avg rating — 285 ratings
83.
Little Effie's Book Of Poetry
Little Effie's Book Of Poetry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
83.
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You
You Read to Me, I'll Read to You 3.95 avg rating — 218 ratings
85.
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
86.
Kids Pick The Funniest Poems
Kids Pick The Funniest Poems 4.07 avg rating — 328 ratings
86.
Poems About Emotions
Poems About Emotions 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
88.
The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems
The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems 4.30 avg rating — 100 ratings
88.
Haiku Baby
Haiku Baby 4.26 avg rating — 284 ratings
88.
The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse
The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse 3.95 avg rating — 128 ratings
91.
Poems from The Golden Treasury of Poetry
Poems from The Golden Treasury of Poetry 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
91.
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems 4.11 avg rating — 1,631 ratings
93.
Poems About Families
Poems About Families 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
93.
A Poem for Every Autumn Day
A Poem for Every Autumn Day 3.66 avg rating — 577 ratings
93.
Out and About
Out and About 4.38 avg rating — 243 ratings
96.
Poems to Live Your Life By
Poems to Live Your Life By really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
97.
Heard it in the Playground
Heard it in the Playground 4.08 avg rating — 289 ratings
98.
Poems About: The Seaside
Poems About: The Seaside 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
98.
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies
The Complete Book of the Flower Fairies 4.44 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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Talking Turkeys
Talking Turkeys really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 280 ratings
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