NPM Day 29: The Letter Y

My book spine poem for NPM 2017:

She walks in beauty

A jar of tiny stars

Awakening the heart

Opening a door

House of light 

Pass the poetry, please!

Continuing my alphabetic stroll

through National Poetry Month 

with the letter Y . . . 

Jane Yolen

Jane has written over 300 books and 70+ of those are poetry books.  I've always loved the poetic language in Owl Moon and according to Jane's site, she counts it "...as an unrhymed picture book poem."  

Jane's son, Jason Stemple, is a free lance photographer who provided the photographs for some of Jane's poetry books.  Here are four favorite titles that are paired with her son's photography:

Shape Me a Rhyme

Color Me a Rhyme

Wild Wings

Fine Feathered Friends

You Come Too:  Favorite Poems for Young Readers

by Robert Frost

My copy of this classic Robert Frost title was a library discard.  It's a treasure of some of the most appealing of Frost's poems for the young reader.  The invitation poem of the title, "You Come Too," was one of the poems in my "apron of many pockets" for Poem in Your Pocket Day yesterday.  

You Be Good and I'll Be Night 

by Eve Merriam

This delightful collection was purchased when my own children were young.  These cheerful, rollicking rhymes were favorites in our household.  Here's the opening spread with the title of the book poem - 

 And a final stanza to love in this poem -

especially since we now have a grandson named Jack!