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Science & Poetry Books for Children

101 Science Poems & Songs for Young Learners with Hands-On Activities. Meish Goldish. (Illus.; An Instructor Book.) NY: Scholastic, 1999. ISBN 0590963694. Order

Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems. Judy Sierra. (Illus. by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey.) NY: Harcourt, 1998. 32pp. ISBN 0152010068. Order

Black Earth, Gold Sun. Patricia Hubbell. (Illus. by Mary Newell Depalma.) Marshall Cavendish, 2001. ISBN 0761450904. Order

Counting on the Woods. George Ell Lyon. (Illus. by Ann W. Olson.) NY: DK Publishing, 1998. 32pp. ISBN 0-789-42480-0. Order

Dear World. Takayo Noda. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2003. 32pp. ISBN 0803726449. Order

Footprints on the Roof: Poems About the Earth. Marilyn Singer. (Illus. by Meilo So.) Knopf, 2002. 48pp. ISBN 0375810943. Order

I'm Going to Pet a Worm Today: And Other Poems. Constance Levy. (Illus. by Ronald Himler.) NY: Margaret MeElderry, 1991. 38pp. ISBN 0-6895-05-353. Order

Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings. Douglas Florian. NY: Harcourt, 1998. ISBN 01-5201-3067. Order

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. Paul Fleischman. (Illus. by Eric Beddows.) NY: HarperCollins, 1990. 44pp. ISBN 0-0602-18533. Order

Make Things Fly: Poems about the Wind. Dorothy M. Kennedy. (Illus. by Sasha Meret.) NY: Margaret MeElderry, 1998. 32pp. ISBN 0-689-81544-1. Order

A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him, did you not,
His notice sudden is.

The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun, --
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.

Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;

But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.

Emily Dickinson

Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems. Krinstine O'Connell George. (Illus. by Kate Keisler.) NY: Clarion Books, 1998. 48pp. ISBN 0-3958-761-17. Order

On the Wing: Bird Poems and Paintings. Douglas Florian. Voyager Books, 2000. 48pp. ISBN. 0152023666. Order

Ordinary Things: Poems from a Walk in Early Spring. Ralph Fletcher. (Illus. by Walther Lyon Krudop.) NY: Atheneum, 1997. ISBN 0-6898-1035-0. Order

Pond Seasons. Sue Ann Alderson. (Illus. by Ann Blades.) Buffalo, NY: Groundwork Books, 1998. 32pp. ISBN 0888992831. Order

Rumble in the Jungle. Giles Andreae. (Illus. by David Wojtowycz.) Tiger Tales, 2001. 21pp. ISBN 1589250052. Order

Sawgrass Poems: A View of the Everglades. Frank Asch. (Illus. by Ted Levin.) San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996. 48pp. ISBN 0-15-200180-8. Order

Song of the North. Frank Asch. (Illus. by Ted Levin.) Gulliver Books, 1999. 48pp. ISBN 0-15-201258-3. Order

Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast. Jack Prelutsky. (Illus. by Arnold Lobel.) NY: Greenwillow, 1988. 31pp. ISBN 0-688-06443-4. Order

A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme. J. Patrick Lewis. (Illus. by Alison Jay.) 40pp. Dial Books for Young Readers, 2002. ISBN 0803725795. Order

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