In this article in Language Arts, Grace Enriquez, Erika Thulin Dawes, and Mary Ann
Cappiello (Lesley University), Katie Egan Cunningham (Manhattanville
College/Purchase), and Gilberto Lara (University of Texas/San Antonio) list
their favorite books of poetry for children published in 2018. All the books,
they say, have “a palpable sense of wonder, comfort, hope, and awe regarding
the world in which we live.”
• I Am
Loved by Nikki Giovanni, illustrated by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
• A
Bunch of Punctuation selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illustrated by Serge
Bloch (WordSong)
• Can I
Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene Latham
and Charles Waters, illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko (Carolrhoda)
• Vivid:
Poems & Notes About Color written and illustrated by Julie Paschkis
(Henry Holt)
• Hidden
City: Poems of Urban Wildlife by Sarah Grace Tuttle, illustrated by Amy
Schimler-Safford (Eerdmans)
• Seeing
Into Tomorrow, Haiku by Richard Wright, biography and illustrations by Nina
Crews (Millbrook)
• Imagine
by Juan Felipe Herrera, illustrated by Lauren Castillo (Candlewick)
• Jabbberwalking
written and illustrated by Juan Felipe Herrera (Candlewick)
• World
Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins (Abrams)
• The
Stuff of Stars by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Ekua Holmes
(Candlewick)
• The
Poetry of US: More Than 200 Poems That Celebrate the People, Places, and
Passions of the United States edited by Patrick Lewis (National Geographic)
• Voices
in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow)
(Please Note: The summary above is reprinted with permission from issue #796 of
The Marshall Memo, an excellent resource for educators.)
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