Fifty-Two Children’s Poets You Should Know
Besides the wonderful Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein, there are many other excellent children’s poets. Here’s a list of fifty-two of them. Look up their books!
| Arnold Adoff Francisco Alarcon Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Calef Brown Leslie Bullion Stephanie Calmenson Kate Coombs Rebecca Kai Dotlich Margarita Engle Douglas Florian Betsy Franco Helen Frost Kristine O’Connell George Nikki Giovanni Joan Bransfield Graham John Grandits Eloise Greenfield Nikki Grimes Monica Gunning David Harrison Juanita Havill Georgia Heard Lee Bennett Hopkins Mary Ann Hoberman Paul Janeczko Alan Katz
| Bobbi Katz X.J. Kennedy Karla Kuskin Julie Larios J. Patrick Lewis Tony Medina Pat Mora Heidi Mordhorst Walter Dean Myers Marilyn Nelson Naomi Shihab Nye Bob Raczka Laura Purdie Salas Alice Schertle Joyce Sidman Marilyn Singer Charles R. Smith, Jr. Hope Anita Smith Joyce Carol Thomas Lee Wardlaw Carole Boston Weatherford Robert Weinstock Allan Wolf Janet Wong Jane Yolen Tracie Vaughn Zimmer |
For more fine children’s poets to discover, go to Sylvia Vardell’s Poetry for Children Blog: http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/
