The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
The months / Sara Coleridge --
WINTER : January : New Year's Day / Rachel Field --
New Year's resolutions / Bruce Lansky --
Martin Luther King Day / Myra Cohn Livingston --
I dream a world / Langston Hughes --
The last word of a bluebird / Robert Frost --
Cardinal / Barbara Juster Esbensen --
The snowflake / Walter de la Mare --
White fields / James Stephens --
Kittens / Myra Cohn Livingston --
Skating / Herbert Asquith --
Happy winter, steamy tub / Karen Gundersheimer ; February : Ground Hog Day / Lilian Moore --
New Year's Day! / Kam Mak --
Chinese New Year / Anonymous --
I made my dog a valentine / Jack Prelutsky --
A valentine / Julie Andrews --
Ode to us / Emma Walton Hamilton --
In fancy dress / Tony Walton --
George Washington's birthday: wondering / Bobbi Katz --
Abraham Lincoln / Mildred Meigs --
We cannot all be Washingtons and Lincolns / Anonymous.
SPRING : March : March / John Updike --
Morning has broken / Eleanor Farjeon --
When Irish eyes are smiling / lyrics by Chauncey Olcott, Geo. Graff Jr. ; music by Ernest R. Ball --
On St. Patrick's Day / Jenny Whitehead --
The Fourteenth Day of Adar / Barbara Juster Esbensen --
Now that Spring is here ... / Barbara Juster Esbensen ; April : April Fool / Myra Cohn Livingston --
A little boy's rainy day / lyrics by Johnny Mercer; music by David Saxon --
Umbrellas / Barbara Juster Esbensen --
Passover / Myra Cohn Livingston --
The Easter Bunny / Rupert S. Holland --
The Easter Parade / William Jay Smith --
Song of Easter / Celia Thaxter --
Chief Seattle's lesson / Helen H. Moore --
What do we plant? / Henry Abbey --
Our tree / Marchette Chute --
A tree outside my window / lyrics and music by Oscar Hammerstein II, William Hammerstein II ; May : May / John Updike --
Bee, I'm expecting you! / Emily Dickinson --
The first dandelion / Walt Whitman --
Dancing paper / Pat Mora --
Breakfast in bed for Mother's Day! / Jenny Whitehead --
Mama, a rainbow / lyrics by Hal Hackady; music by Larry Grossman --
Memorial Day / Constance Andrea Keremes.
SUMMER : June : June / John Updike --
Skylark / Katrina Porteous --
Hang out the flag / James S. Tippett --
in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade --
For Father's Day / Rachel Field --
Experiment / lyrics and music by Cole Porter --
Midsummer night / Rupert S. Holland ; July : To July / Anonymous --
Going down hill on a bicycle / Henry Charles Beeching --
Fireworks / James Reeves --
Four of July / Robert Newton Peck --
Natural history / E.B. White --
The frog chorus / Rupert S. Holland --
Equestrienne / Rachel Field --
Sand house / J. Patrick Lewis --
Reading: Summer / Myra Cohn Livingston ; August : A boy's summer / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
A boy and his dad / Edgar A. Guest --
Analysis of baseball / May Swenson --
Ramadan has begun / Jenny Whitehead --
I will go with my father a-ploughing / Joseph Campbell --
Nocturne for late summer / Barbara Juster Esbensen --
What shall I pack in the box marked "Summer"? / Bobbi Katz.
FALL : September : September / Helen Hunt Jackson --
First day of school / Barbara Juster Esbensen --
Good hot dogs / Sandra Cisneros --
Homework / Russell Hoban --
grandmother / Ray A. Young Bear --
Some things about grandpas / Alice Low --
Rosh ha-Shanah Eve / Harry Philip --
How to get through the memorial service / Richard J. Margolis ; October : Columbus / Ogden Nash --
To Autumn / John Keats --
Apple song / Frances Frost --
Autumn / Emily Dickinson --
The wind in a frolic / William Howitt --
Hallowe'en / Rupert S. Holland --
Skeletons / Valerie Worth --
Pumpkin / Valerie Worth ; November : November / John Updike --
Autumn fires / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The First Thanksgiving / Jack Prelutsky --
Thanksgiving / Ivy O. Eastwick --
Father, we thank Thee / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Rhapsody / William Stanley Braithwaite --
I ate too much / Jack Prelutsky --
Jack Frost / Helen Bayley Davis ; December lights : December : Light the festive candles / Aileen Fisher --
First night of Hanukkah / Ruth Roston --
Latke time / Michele Krueger --
A Sacred Place / Anonymous --
For Christmas / Rachel Field --
Christmas / Julie Andrews --
little tree / e.e. cummings --
Christmas goes to sea / Rachel Field --
A Christmas Carol / Christina Rossetti --
How do you get to be Santa? / Emma Walton Hamilton --
The Holy Boy / lyrics by Herbert S. Brown; music by John Ireland --
Kid stuff / Frank Horne --
The waiting game / John Mole --
Kwanzaa days / Jenny Whitehead --
My people / Langston Hughes --
Sacred duty / Sami Bentil --
New Year's Eve / Myra Cohn Livingston.
Other Celebrations & Special Occasions : The Sabbath/Shabbat : Sabbath bells / John Clare --
Havdalah / Carol Adler --
Sunday morning breakfast time / lyrics and music by Cole Porter ; Birthdays : Happy birthday from your loving brother / Bruce Lansky --
Half birthday / Amy Krouse Rosenthal --
If we didn't have birthdays / Dr. Seuss ; New Babies : Étude réaliste / Algernon Charles Swinburne --
Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman --
Six weeks old / Christopher Morley --
Perambulator poem / David McCord ; Coming of Age/Rites of Passage : A quiet thing / lyrics and music by Fred Ebb, John Kander --
Sunrise, sunset / lyrics and music by Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock --
Nothing like the sun / Emma Walton Hamilton --
Death Is nothing at all / Henry Scott Holland --
May the road rise to meet you / Anonymous
Index : Holidays & celebrations & their corresponding poems.
