Comelibritos' Corner: "R is for Rhyme" & More Great Picture Books for Your Little Poets

4/7/2019

Happy National Poetry Month!

It's never too early introduce your littles to poetry, and I've compiled a list of picture books that can help you do just that.

Below I've included books that feature poetry as well as books that share the biographies of great poets.

The starred (*) titles are books I own or have borrowed from the library, and the rest are titles I hope to check out soon.

I've also included a link to my poetry collection Words or Water, but that one is just for the adults ;)

What picture books featuring poetry do you and your family love?

Full Disclosure:

As always, I encourage you to support your local bookstores and libraries! Be sure to ask them to stock these books if they don't already carry them.

If, however, you plan to purchase any of these books online, please use my affiliate links below; as an affiliate, I may earn a small commission for qualifying purchases (at no cost to you) which supports my work.

You may also consider finding your favorites on alternate booksellers' sites:

Picture Books: Poetry

* R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet
by Judy Young (Author), Victor Juhasz (Illustrator)

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
by Kwame Alexander (Author), Chris Colderley (Author), Marjory Wentworth (Author), Ekua Holmes (Illustrator)

* Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat
by Nikki Giovanni (Author), Alicia Vergel de Dios (Illustrator), Damian Ward (Illustrator), Kristen Balouch (Illustrator), Jeremy Tugeau(Illustrator), Michele Noiset (Illustrator)

* Poems to Dream Together/ Poemas Para Soñar Juntos
by Francisco X. Alarcon (Author), Paula Barragan (Illustrator)
(English and Spanish Edition)

* Arco Iris de Poesia: Poemas de las Americas y Espana
by Sergio Andricain (Author), Olga Cuellar (Illustrator)
(Spanish Edition)

My First Book of Haiku Poems: a Picture, a Poem and a Dream
Classic Poems by Japanese Haiku Masters
by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen (Author), Tracy Gallup (Illustrator)
(Bilingual English and Japanese text)

Picture Books: Celebrating Poets

* Julia de Burgos
Cuando los grandes eran pequeños.
by Georgina Lazaro (Author), Lectorum Publications (Editor), Poli Marichal (Illustrator)
(Spanish Edition)

* Visiting Langston
by Willie Perdomo (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

I, Too, Am America
by Langston Hughes (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

Are You an Echo?: The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko
by Misuzu Kaneko (Author), Toshikado Hajiri (Illustrator), Sally Ito (Translator), David Jacobson (Translator), Michiko Tsuboi (Translator), Setsuo Yazaki (Foreword)