Child Poetry

Rudyard Kipling’s best loved book, full of timeless and beloved tales of adventure. The story of Mowgli, the abandoned "man-cub" who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo, the graceful black panther Bagheera, and Shere Khan, the tiger with the blazing eyes.

The Bumpy, Lumpy Horseshoe Crab is a horseshoe crab adventure with a happy ending. This audiobook has a whimsical, rhyming style, and portrays horseshoe crabs exhibiting behaviors that they commonly use in real life. It's the perfect choice for children three to 10 years old. It also is a great tool for teachers who are studying marine life, tidepools, or coastal sea animals. Although two horseshoe crabs are the central characters, periwinkles, limpets, barnacles, and green and Jonah crabs are also portrayed in the story.

Martin Rising is a stunning, poetic presentation of the final months of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life - told in a rich embroidery of visions, color, musical cadence, deep emotion, and multiple layers of meaning. Against a backdrop of the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee, the book builds to its rousing crescendo as King delivers his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech - where his life’s commitment to peaceful activism and his dream of equality ascend to their highest peak.

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Soon, her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. She sends Macy next door to help 86-year-old Iris Gillan, who is getting ready to move into an assisted-living facility. Iris can't pack a single box on her own, and, worse, she doesn't know sign language. Soon, through notes and books and cookies, a bond grows between them, and this friendship, odd and unexpected, may be just what Macy needs to face the changes in her life.

A comedic telling of inappropriate behavior in public places. For children.

This adventure's a throwback to simpler times. Your child's going to love it: the whole story rhymes! It's about a young boy who is brave and unbowed. The kid goes on a quest, and when danger appears, he discovers true grit - and he conquers his fears. When the dust has all settled and Martin returns, he makes difficult choices and finally learns that it's not always easy to do the right thing....

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you're in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them - to jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move.

Alles durchlebt den Wandel der vier Jahreszeiten: Fredrik Vahle singt vom Erblühen der Welt nach einem kalten Winter, malt in lyrischen Bildern den Sommer, lässt Mensch und Erde im Nebel träumen und im Winter Ruhe und Besinnung einkehren. Dieses Jahreszeiten-Album klingt mal verspielt, mal tiefsinnig. Die Songs bewegen, berühren, laden zum Verweilen ein und gehen weit über das klassische Kinderlied hinaus: Sie lassen das große Ganze sehen und helfen, im Einklang mit der Natur zu leben.

Ulrich Steier hat Kinderlieder für die ganz Kleinen geschrieben, die zum Lauschen, Mitsingen, Herumhopsen und Entspannen einladen. Die Kinder lernen den kleinen Hasen kennen, der die Natur wahrnimmt, mit seinen Freunden herumtollt und vor allem eins erfährt: dass er geliebt wird, so wie er ist, und dass seine Familie und Freunde immer für ihn da sind.

Omalvus is a snail who loves to draw with his rainbow-colored slime trail. He is very proud of his beautiful, brightly colored pictures. His peaceful life is one day disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious brown slime that is ruining his colorful drawings. Each day. he creates a new drawing. and each day, when he is not looking, his drawing is destroyed. Oh no! He must find out what or who is responsible for this destruction.

This story is a seasonal treat, a modern, lyrical retelling of the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol. Eb is a spoiled child who really is not one for caring, and he certainly hates sharing. He is watched over by a very special guardian - the family’s ancient longcase clock, who is bestowed with magic. His name is Grandfather Time. On Christmas Eve, Grandfather Time decides he must teach the boy a lesson.

This is a charming children’s story about a fly who can’t fly, but who longs for adventure! Tripi is different and special, you see; he can talk, read, and write - he can even dance and sing! He tries and tries with all his might, but it remains that he cannot take flight! Tripi is unique in his ability to look at the bright side of things. He’s not going to let this get him down, so he goes to the library where he meets The Great Book!

Red Shoes with White Squiggles is a rhyming children's book about a family of five mice. The author Carol Pavelin was inspired to write the book after seeing some of the character mice painted by her sister Stephanie Conroy. The locations in the book are loosely based on the sisters' happy memories of growing up on Woodhill Road in Portishead, England.

Poetry, as primitive and timeless as the people and the planet it records. Evolution is creation in motion. It is an ongoing cycle of transformation. For you and I, the human race, it is how we develop and grow, and who we become in the process. The Evolution of Creation is a poetic journey with each poem capturing an important element in an ongoing story. A story that continues to develop as it defines humanity's progress on earth. It is the rhythm of the times we live in. It is not just any story, it is our story.

A poetic and inspiring tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's history, landscape, and symbols. With wonderfully spare, deceptively simple verses, Sarvinder Naberhaus has composed a lyrical celebration of the iconic imagery of our nation, beginning with the American flag. Each spread depicts a richly evocative tableau, from the view of the Statue of Library at Ellis Island to civil rights marchers banded together, to a spacecraft at Cape Canaveral blasting off. This book is an ode to America then and now, from sea to shining sea.

Little children need tales and stories, for they play an essential part in their development by awakening their imagination, introducing them to symbolic imagery, and bringing forth emotions in a healthy, constructive way. Our audiobook collection brings together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends, which have fed the imagination of children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon.

Step into the enchanting world of Robert Burns with this magical collection of poems in Scots. Imagine stumbling upon a lost typewriter that had been used by the national poet of Scotland himself, and discovering a treasure trove of new works that had been hidden away for centuries. This delightful collection, carefully crafted by William Clark, is the result of that incredible discovery.

Though it may never be known if Mother Goose was based on an old French queen, a Boston housewife, or someone else entirely, these nursery rhymes will continue to entertain as they have in varying forms for hundreds of years. Though commonly thought of as children's literature, the alternatingly dry, sarcastic, and histrionically tinged humor with which this production is delivered appeals to a wide audience. Arguably.

There are six little fish. Along come six little feet. What will happen when they meet?

It's not fair! All Little Owl wants is to go to bed at a reasonable hour, like his friends do. But no . . . Mama and Papa say little owls have to stay up late and play. So Little Owl spends all night jumping on his bed, playing on the jungle gym, and doing tricks on his skateboard - but he's hooting mad about it ! Children who have a hard time going to bed will love this fun twist on the universal dilemma.