Children’s Literature Reviews: Poetry for Children at Its Best: 2009 Poetry Notables

However you like your poetry, whether in free verse or rhyming couplets, each year seems to bring new delights in the world of poetry, and this one was no exception. It seemed as though our poets simply got better and the poems they created were even more memorable than before. In this year’s list of the 20 notable poetry books, members of the NCTE Excellence in Poetry Committee hope readers discover a poem or two that will help you imagine all the possibilities of the spoken and the written word.