The Bill Martin Jr. big book of poetry / edited by Bill Martin Jr., with Michael Sampson ; foreword by Eric Carle ; afterword by Steven Kellogg.

The pasture / Robert Frost
Animals: Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field
Mice / Rose Fyleman
Caterpillars / Aileen L. Fisher
The wolf / Georgia Roberta Durston
A bird came down the walk / Emily Dickinson
Baby chick / Aileen L. Fisher
A kitten / Eleanor Farjeon
Crocodile / Anonymous
Foxes / Mary Ann Hoberman
The woodpecker / Elizabeth Maddox Roberts
World of nature: Weather / Anonymous
Clouds / Christina G. Rossetti
Who has seen the wind? / Christina G. Rossetti
The muddy puddle / Dennis Lee
Fog / Carl Sandburg
Spring rain / Marchette Chute
The rainbow / Christina G. Rossetti
What is pink? / Christina G. Rossetti
Open house / Aileen L. Fisher
The little rose tree / Rachel Field
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay
Metaphor / Eve Merriam
Eyes in the night / Margaret Wise Brown
Sleeping outdoors / Marchette Chute
The star / Jane Taylor
Until we built a cabin / Aileen L. Fisher
Wise / Aileen L. Fisher
Taking turns / Norma Farber
To look at any thing / John Moffitt
Hurt no living thing / Christina G. Rossetti
Around the year: The months / Anonymous
New Year's Day / Rachel Field
To my Valentine / Anonymous
March winds and April showers / Mother Goose
April rain song / Langston Hughes
Green grass & dandelions / Margaret Wise Brown
Autumn / Emily Dickinson
October / Robert Frost
The last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost
I heard a bird sing / Oliver Herford
Thanksgiving day / L. Maria Child
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost
Happy Hanukkah! / Eva Grant
Christmas song / Margaret Wise Brown
People and places: City song / Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson
Skyscraper / Dennis Lee
Subways are people / Lee Bennett Hopkins
Climbing / Aileen L. Fisher
In the woods / Margaret Wise Brown
Knoxville, Tennessee / Nikki Giovanni
Child of the sun / Lillian M. Fisher
Postman's song / Margaret Wise Brown
The park / James S. Tippett
So many nights / Margaret Wise Brown
Manhattan lullaby / Rachel Field
Once upon a time / Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson
School time: First day of school / Aileen L. Fisher
Pick me, please / Kalli Dakos
SOS / Beverly McLoughland
Take a number / Mary O'Neill
I brought a worm / Kalli Dakos
Ten little caterpillars / Bill Martin Jr
Word builder / Ann Whitford Paul
Under the microscope / Lee Bennett Hopkins
Poor substitute / Kalli Dakos
Me and my feelings: The swing / Robert Louis Stevenson
I've got an itch / Jack Prelutsky
Papa says / Libby Stopple
This tooth / Lee Bennett Hopkins
Bursting / Dorothy Aldis
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson
I am running in a circle / Jack Prelutsky
Tiptoe / Karla Kushkin
My dog / Marchette Chute
Vacation / Mary Ann Hoberman
Kick a little stone / Dorothy Aldis
I keep three wishes ready / Annette Wynne
The dark / Myra Cohn Livingston
Bed in summer / Robert Louis Stevenson
If I were in charge of the world / Judith Viorst
Painting the gate / May Swenson
My star / Myra Cohn Livingston
Dreamer / Langston Hughes
Family and home: Grandpa's stories / Langston Hughes
in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade
Promises / David A. Anderson
A social mixer / X.J. Kennedy
My little sister / William Wise
Some things don't make any sense at all / Judith Viorst
I love you little / Anonymous
Food for me: On eating porridge made of peas / Louis Phillips
I eat my peas with honey / Anonymous
Speak clearly / Martin Gardner
Let there be pizza on earth / David Canzoneri and Bill Martin Jr
Mummy slept late and Daddy fixed breakfast / John Ciardi
Oodles of noodles / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.
Herbert Glerbett / Jack Prelutsky
O sliver of liver / Myra Cohn Livingston
Beans, beans, beans / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.
Nonsense: Norman Norton's nostrils / Colin West
Kitty caught a caterpillar / Jack Prelutsky
Snail's pace / Aileen L. Fisher
Dickery Dean / Dennis Lee
Crooked man / Mother Goose
A mouse in her room / Anonymous
Tombstone / Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.
Eat-it-all Elaine / Kaye Starbird
The folk who live in Backward Town / Mary Ann Hoberman
Mother Goose: Old Mother Hubbard / Adapted by Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson
Knock on the door / Mother Goose
Wee Willie Winkie / Mother Goose
Hey diddle, diddle / Mother Goose
Jack be nimble / Mother Goose
King Cole / Mother Goose
Star light / Mother Goose
Little Bo-Peep / Mother Goose
Little Boy Blue / Mother Goose
Black sheep / Mother Goose
Song of sixpence / Mother Goose
My brother was a fisherman / Mother Goose
Hickory, dickory, dock / Mother Goose
The tuft of flowers / Robert Frost.