100 Favorite Kids' Poems and Nursery Rhymes: Classic Poetry for Children by the World's Greatest Authors

There are so many wonderful poems for kids out there that this book can only scratch the surface. But hopefully by presenting a varied ‘best of’ we can encourage young verse lovers to dig deeper and discover more for themselves.

The classics are classics for a reason - no one has
written better-loved poems in the years since they
were first published.

So here is a vintage selection of the best of the very best poems from the greatest writers in history, especially for young readers. Shakespeare, Scott, Stevenson, Lear, Carroll, Rossetti, Tennyson, Longfellow - they’ve all written poetic wonders to entrance young minds.

These poems are happy, entrancing, musical, thrilling, weird, wonderful and even scary. There are poems about nature, animals, adventure, voyages, the seaside, monsters, Christmas and, of course, there are plenty to read when it’s time for bed.

You’ll probably remember a few of these from your own younger days, but there are also many lovely verses that will be new discoveries.

Which will be your favorite? Which will be your child’s?

Why don’t you read them together and find out...

ANIMAL POEMS

1. The Owl and the Pussy Cat - Edward Lear
2. Eletelephony - Laura Richards
3. Caterpillar - Christina Rossetti
4. At The Zoo - William Makepeace Thackeray
5. The Duel - Eugene Field
6. How Doth the Little Crocodile - Lewis Carroll
7. The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog - Sarah Catherine Martin
8. Allie - Robert Graves
9. What Does the Bee Do? - Christina Rossetti
10. The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson
11. The Spider and the Fly - Mary Howitt
12. Wild Geese - Celia Thaxter
13. Little Birdie - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

SOOTHING POEMS

14. The Happy Hour - Mary F. Butts
15. Summertime - DuBose Heyward
16. The Land of Counterpane - Robert Louis Stevenson
17. All Things Bright and Beautiful - Cecil Frances Alexander
18. The Baby's Dance - Ann Taylor
19. Queen Mab - Thomas Hood

NATURE POEMS

20. The Rainbow - Christina Rossetti
21. A Boy's Song - James Hogg
22. The Star - Jane Taylor
23. Under the Greenwood Tree - William Shakespeare
24. The Brook - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
25. At the Seaside - Robert Louis Stevenson
26. Jack Frost - Celia Thaxter
27. Leaves in Autumn - Anon
28. Spring and Summer - Dora Read Goodale
29. Wishes - Mary N. Prescott
30. April Rain - Robert Loveman

SILLY POEMS

31. Humpty Dumpty's Song - Lewis Carroll
32. Mr Nobody - Anonymous
33. Nonsenses (Limericks) - Edward Lear
34. There Was a Little Girl - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
35. The Lobster Quadrille - Lewis Carroll
36. Three Craws - Traditional
37. My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
38. An Alphabet - Edward Lear
39. The Elf and the Dormouse - Oliver Herford
40. Bed in Summer - Robert Louis Stevenson
41. The Fastidious Serpent - Henry Johnstone
42. A Peanut - Anonymous
43. A Riddle - Anonymous
44. Weather - Anonymous
45. A Nonsense Song - Stephen Vincent Benét

STORY POEMS

46. The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
47. Who Knows What Harry Wants? - Richard Happer
48. The Story of Johnny Head-in-the-Air - Heinrich Hoffman
49. Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
50. The First Tooth - Charles and Mary Lamb
51. The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Edward Lear
52. The Story of Fidgety Philip - Heinrich Hoffman
53. The Wind and the Moon - George MacDonald
54. The Jumblies - Edward Lear
55. Casabianca - Felicia Hemans

THINKING POEMS

56. Happy Thought - Robert Louis Stevenson
57. Answer to a Child's Question - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
58. Rathers - Mary Hunter Austin
59. I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child - Robert Graves
60. What is Pink? - Christina Rossetti
61. The Little Doll - Charles Kingsley
62. Ferry Me Across the Water - Christina Rossetti

BEDTIME POEMS

63. Lullaby - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
64. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Eugene Field
65. The Sandman - Margaret Thomson Janvier
66. Cradle Song - William Blake

PLUS 34 MORE!!!