Songs, Poems, & Rhyming Books

These are books which allow children to focus on the sounds and rhythm,of the English language. By hearing poems read aloud and singing along with their favorite songs in print, children can begin to recognize the relationship between written and spoken language.

Baby Beluga: The Famous Raffi Songs, Learning Activities, Patterns, Props and Creative-play Ideas by Sherrill B Flora & Val Larse
Demolition by Sally Sutton
Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherrie Duskey Rinker
I Know a Lot! by Stephen Krensky
I Spy Little Letters (and other books from the I Spy Series) by Jean Marzollo
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
My Very First Mother Goose by Lona Opie
Nursery Rhymes by Kate Toms
One, Two Buckle my Shoe by Salina Yoon
Over in the Meadow by John Langstaff
Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems by Jane Yolen & Andrew Fusek Peters (Eds.)
The Random House Book of Poetry for Young Children by Jack Prelutsky & Arnold Lobel (Eds)
We Are Going on a Bear Hunt by Helen Oxenbury