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Poetry, Prose, and People by Sharron McElmeel
Poem titles  are in green.

Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry (Houghton Mifflin, 1979)  (p. 8-13)

Caterpillar – Aileen Fisher’s “Caterpillars” or David McCord’s “Cocoon
Rainy Day – Langston Hughes’s “April Rain Song.”

Prose: Little Red Hen (various versions)
Poem: "The Mouse, the Frog and the Little Red Hen," by Anonymous
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 "The Mouse, the Frog and the Little Red Hen," a poem written anonymously and shared in a collection A Book of a Thousand Poems with an introduction by J. M. MacBain (Peter Bedrick Books, 1983). The poem can also be found in Side by Side: Poems to Read Together collected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, with illustrations by Hilary Knight (Simon & Schuster, 1988)

Prose: The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth (or another version)
Poem:  “The Gingerbread Man” by Rowena Bennett
 This poem can be found in an anthology of poems: Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems collected by Beatrice Schenk deRegniers (Scholastic Press, 1988).


Prose:  Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia McKissack
Poem: “At the Library”by Nikki Grimes from It’s Raining Laughter (Dial, 1997)
Prose: Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles. Illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue


Prose:  When Marian Sang: The True Rectial of Marian Anderson by Pam Munoz Ryan.  Illustrated by Brian Sclznick. (Scholastic, 2002)
Poem: “Gertrude” from Bronzeville Boys and Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks.  Illustrated by Faith Ringgold.  (HarperCollins, 2007)

Prose: Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman.  Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Dial, 1996)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carol Boston Weatherford.  Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. (Jump at the Sun, 2006).
Poem: “Harriet Tubman” from Honey I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield, illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon. (HarperCollins, 1978)

Prose: We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (Jump at the Sun, 2008)
Verse:  The Negro League Scrapbook by Carol Boston Weatherford (Boyds Mills Press, 2005)

Prose: 
Harlem by Walter Dean Myers.  Illustrated by Christopher Myers. Scholastic, 1997.
Harlem Summer by Walter Dean Myers.  Scholastic, 2007.
Verse:  Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Christopher Myers.  Jump at the Sun, 2007.

Prose:  Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis.  Delacorte Books, 1995.  (Available in paperback, CD audio)
Verse:  “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall
Online at http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~vfjohnson/ballbham.html

Prose/books: Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; editions Casey At the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 by Ernest L. Thayer.  Illustrated Christopher Bing.  Handprint, 2000,
Prose: Casey Back at Bat by Dan Gutman.  HarperCollins, 2007.

Verse:  “I want my pancakes” a poem by Eve Merriam
Prose:  Pancakes! Pancakes! by Eric Carle.  Simon & Schuster, 1991.
    Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola. Harcourt, 1978.
    Isaacs, Anne PANCAKES FOR SUPPER! Il. by Mark Teague. Scholastic, 2006.
If You Give a Pig a Pancake Big Book by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond. HarperCollins, 2000.

Prose: Any version of Cinderella
Verse:  “In Search of Cinderella” by Shel Silverstein; from Light in the Attic
“…And then the prince knelt down” by Judith Viorst, from If I were in Charge of the World and Other Worries.  Illustrated by Lynne Cherry. (Atheneum, 1981)

Prose: Books about strong women such as Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman.
by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by David Diaz. 

Poetry books -- strong girls and women:
Bush, Timothy. 2000. Ferocious Girls, Steamroller Boys, and Other Poems in Between. Orchard.
Franco, Betsy. 2001. Things I Have to Tell You: Poems And Writing by Teenage Girls. Candlewick.
Hollyer, Belinda. 2006. She's All That! Poems About Girls. Kingfisher.
Lewis, J. Patrick. 2005. Heroes and She-roes: Poems of Amazing and Everyday Heroes. Dial.
Lewis, J. Patrick. 2005. Vherses: A Celebration of Outstanding Women. Creative Editions.
Mora, Pat. 2001. Love to Mama: A Tribute to Mothers. Lee & Low.
Morrison, Lillian. 2001. More Spice Than Sugar. Houghton Mifflin.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. 2005. A Maze Me; Poems for Girls. Greenwillow.
Philip, Neil, comp. 2000. It’s a Woman’s World: A Century of Women’s Voices in Poetry. Dutton.
Smith, Charles R., Jr. 2003. Hoop Queens. Candlewick.
Williams, Vera B. 2001. Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart. Greenwillow.



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