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It would be easy to fill up a list with titles by Shel Silverstein, Jack Prelutsky, Eugene Field, Edward Lear and Robert Louis Stevenson.
But since many of us already know about these amazing authors and their books, I've come up with a list of six others that aren't as well-known, but are sure to make "toenails twinkle" just the same.*
Fold Me a Poem
By Kristine O'Connell George and illustrated by Lauren Stringer
Harcourt Children's Books, 2005
$16, ages 4-8, 56 pages
A boy folds and plays with origami animals in this imaginative collection of 32 brief poems. Stringer's acrylic paintings are magical. On one page, an origami elephant emerges from a crumpled lunch bag and on another a floral-paper frog takes the place of a water lily on a floating leaf.
The Underwear Salesman and Other Jobs for Better or Verse
By J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Serge Bloch
Simon & Schuster, 2009
$16.99, ages 9-12, 64 pages
In this hilarious collection of poems, Lewis explores almost every job imaginable, from exterminator to paleontologist to bubble bath tester, while Bloch's ink cartoons leap around the page and delight with whimsical touches of collage. My favorite: th