A new collection of empathetic and illuminating poems by one of America's most-beloved poets.Publishers WeeklyNational Book Award-winner Clifton has long enjoyed national acclaim for her careful, colloquial, compact renditions of African-American voices, in memoirs, books for children and more than...

Mary Had a Little Jam, the newly revised edition of New York Times children's poetry bestseller The New Adventures of Mother Goose, includes many brand new rhymes for the pre-K and kindergarten set. The book's nursery rhymes recount the latest...

Three-time Grammy Award -winning author Maya Angelou lends her distinctive voice to this special audiobook. Listen as Maya Angelou reads her highly publicized work, Amazing Peace , a poem she read at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at...

When her work first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, Nikki Giovanni immediately became one of the most highly regarded and controversial poets of the modern age and her popularity continues today as she is celebrated in song, verse, and...

"In this celebration of the American landscape, Siebert's measured verses convey the majesty of the mountain personified, Sierra herself. Minor's stunning acrylic paintings evoke the breathtaking beauty of his subject. There is a siren's-song quality to this lovely book [and]...

‘Too special for just once-a-week reading, Eloise Greenfield's 20 exuberant poems are matched by the bright colors of Mr. Amos Ferguson's life-filled paintings. His native Caribbean glows as vividly in the words as in the full-page primitive pictures. . ....

Fourteen poems offer young readers an exciting glimpse into the life of Langston Hughes, one of America's most beloved poets. Each poem explores important themes in Hughes's life — his lonely childhood, his love of language and travel, and his...

Marilyn Nelson Waniek is a teller of family tales whose black roots in the South quickly embrace us all. Maybe best, Waniek has the full range of a blues singer's passion, from bitterness to joy, and she shows why in...

In this bedtime poem, three fishermen in a wooden shoe catch stars in their nets of silver and gold.Publishers WeeklyInspired by Field's bedtime poem with its night sky of ``twinkling foam,'' Westerman (The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat) conjures...

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