Books with author Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Little Sister is very busy doing all the work around the house and the yard. But she doesn’t mind: she sings and hums, and she grows prettier and prettier as she does her chores. Her wicked stepmother and stepsister can’t stand the fact that Little Sister is so happy. One day, they tell Little Sister to bring home violets in the middle of winter—or not to come home at all!How Little Sister gets help from the Month Brothers in the forest offers a delightful twist on this Slavic version of Cinderella.

What did you put in your pocket?What did you put in your pocket?In your pockety pockety pocket Early Monday morning?What do YOU put in YOUR pocket?Everyday things like a spinky spanky handkerchief? Or silly things like slushy gushy pudding?No matter what you put in your pockets, you'll get a whole lot of ideas from Beatrice Schenk de Regnier's catchy, cumulative rhymes. Together with Michael Grejniec's zany, bright illustrations, they'll make you look at pockets -- and the days of the week -- in a whole new way!

This is a collection of poems for children illustrated by Caldecott Medal artists. They are divided into theme sections, each illustrated by a different artist - weather, spooky poems, story poems, animals, spirits, nonsense poems, haiku poems, and thoughts and feelings. The poems range from ancient to contemporary and poets include Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear and Ogden Nash.

When a favorite aunt is reading to her favorite nephew (and she has her arm around him) she can read Shakespeare's sonnets or Milton's epic verse or T.S. Eliot's "Wasteland" and still hold-if not the child's attention, at least the child himself. In the classroom, as every teacher knows, it's different. Each of the 106 poems in this book was chosen with this difference in mind. They were chosen expressly for a teacher to read aloud to-and with-her class. Every selection invites the listeners' participation-vocal, physical, or emotional.