From the stacks

 Sharing poems with your child helps children develop a love of language. Read more...
 
One book in our collection that is just right for introducing poems to your child is, Here's a Little Poem: a very first book of poetry, Ccollected by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters; Illustrated by Poly Dumbar.

A.A. Milne, author of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh wrote some terrific poems.

Halfway Down by A.A. Milne
Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn't any
Other stair
Quite like
It.

I'm not at the bottom,
I'm not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always
Stop.