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

4/7/2019

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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 ;)
Stack of picture books about poets and poetry.
What picture books featuring poetry do you and your family love?

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As always, I encourage you to support 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.


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Picture Books for Little Poets

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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)
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(Spanish Edition)

My First Book of Haiku Poems: a Picture, a Poem and a Dream
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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)
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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)

A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
by Alice Faye Duncan  (Author), Xia Gordon (Illustrator)

A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice 
by Nadia Hohn (Author), Eugenie Fernandes (Illustrator)

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton 
by Don Tate  (Author, Illustrator)

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave 
by Laban Carrick Hill  (Author), Bryan Collier (Illustrator)

Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost 
by Natalie S. Bober (Author), Rebecca Gibbon  (Illustrator)

BONUS: Poems for the Parents

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* Words or Water
by Li Yun Alvarado 
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Not a picture book. Not for the little ones.
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Grab your copy of my poetry collection Words or Water today!

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