Introduction -- Always me -- What are little girls / Adrian Henri -- They're calling / Felice Holman -- Girls can too / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- I am cherry alive / Delmore Schwartz -- When you call my name / Jane Dang -- A girl's head / Katherine Gallagher -- I am Rose / Gertrude Stein -- Today / Jean Little -- Hanging fire / Audre Lorde -- My life / Julie O'Callaghan -- Mirror, mirror -- The mirror / Robert Graves -- Who dat girl? / Valerie Bloom -- Gloria / Joyce Armor -- Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker / Roald Dahl -- Lisa / Beverly McLoughland -- My sari / Debjani Chatterjee -- Gran's diet advice / Lindsay Macrae -- Purple shoes / Irene Rawnsley -- Beauty / Grace Nichols -- Full-o-zest -- The Betsy Street Booters / Allan Ahlberg -- Esmé on her brother's bicycle / Russell Hoban -- 74th Street / Myra Cohn Livingston -- The girl who makes the cymbals bang / X.J. Kennedy -- Basketball / Grace Butcher -- Who is de girl? / John Agard -- The sidewalk racer / Lillian Morrison -- Double Dutch girls / Douglas Florian -- Lizzie / Anonymous (traditional Polish) -- Clara Cleech / Jack Prelutsky -- Track / Grace Butcher.
Best friends -- Two friends / Nikki Giiovanni -- Since Hanna moved away / Judith Viorst -- Best friends / Mick Gowar -- Meanie / Aileen Fisher -- Secrets / Judith Viorst -- Best friends / Adrian Henri -- Poem for two voices / Carol Diggory Shields -- Perfect blend / Andrew Fusek Peters Polly Peters -- Sing daughter sing -- My cousin Tiffany / Tony Medina -- Girls can we educate we Dads? / James Berry -- Mother knows best / Lindsay Macrae -- Conversation / Olive Dove -- When Tonya's friends come to spend the night / Eloise Greenfield -- Grandma's child / Nikki Grimes -- Daughter of my people, sing! / Micere Githae Mugo.
Sweets for my sweet -- Sweets for my sweet / Roger McGough -- Blackberry sweet / Dudley Randall -- How to get a girlfriend / Lenin Salinas -- Boy girl / Anonymous -- Samooreena / Richard Edwards -- Miss! Sue is kissing / Michael Harrison -- A bargain / Richard Edwards -- Bertha's wish / Judith Viorst -- Old ballad / Christopher Reid -- Juke box love song / Langston Hughes -- Causing a stir -- Watching a dancer / James Berry -- Sally / Phoebe Hesketh -- From a very little sphinx / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Equestrienne / Rachel Field -- Full moon / Vita Sackville-West -- ARgumentative / Carol Ann Duffy -- Queen Nefertiti / Anonymous -- Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably / Hilaire Belloc -- The adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash.
I remember you -- Yes, m it was my grandmother / Luci Tapahonso -- Aunt Sue's stories / Langston Hughes -- Girls in a factory / Denis Glover -- Woman work / Maya Angelou -- Witch / Marian Lines -- Nobody's nicer / Aileen Fisher -- Migratory birds / Odilia Galván Rodríguez -- Women / Alice Walker -- Girl from a train / Gareth Owen -- Growing up -- I can / Mari Evans -- When I grow up / Janet S. Wong -- The drum / Nikki Giovanni -- Her dreams / Eloise Greenfield -- Design / Julie O'Callaghan -- Little girl, be careful what you say / Carl Sandburg -- Light as a leaf / Helen Dunmore -- Index of first lines -- Index of poets -- Acknowledgments.
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