It’s National Poetry Month, and in the past years, we have posted several wonderful book lists to help you celebrate the art of composing thoughts, ideas, and stories into magnificent and imaginative words. Since the last poetry posts, 18 Novels in Verse and 40 Books to Celebrate National Poetry Month, there has been an announcement that Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds’ award-winning novel-in-verse will be released as a graphic novel in the fall. Kwame Alexander’s Newbery winner, The Crossover, is now in paperback. And Wade and Cheryl Willis Hudson received tremendous praise for We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, an anthology that contains powerful and inspirational poems from various children’s authors. Here are nine more books to add to those poetry selections, and, of course, you can visit here to find so many more selections. Happy Poetry Month!
Woke Baby
Mahogany L. Browne | Theodore Taylor III | Roaring Brook Press, 2018 | Amazon | IndieBound
Hands Up!
Breanna J. McDaniel | Shane W. Evans | Dial Books, 2019 | Amazon | IndieBound
Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me
Eloise Greenfield | Ehsan Abdollahi | Sourcebooks, 2019 | Amazon | IndieBound
A Song for Gwendolyn Brooks
Alice Faye Duncan | Xia Gordon | Sterling, 2019 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop
Carole Boston Weatherford | Frank Morrison | little bee books, 2019 | Amazon | IndieBound
The Undefeated
Kwame Alexander | Kadir Nelson | Versify, 2019 | Amazon | IndieBound
Rebound (The Crossover Series)
Kwame Alexander | HMH BYR, 2018 | Amazon | IndieBound
For Every One
Jason Reynolds | Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy, 2018 | Amazon | IndieBound
Swing
Kwame Alexander | Mary Rand Hess | Blink, 2018 | Amazon | IndieBound
Do you have a favorite book from the lists? Leave us a comment!
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I liked the book – For everyone by Jason Reynolds
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