The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The months / Sara Coleridge -- 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 ; Ground Hog Day / Lilian Moore -- New Year's Day! / Kam Mak -- Chinese New Year / Anonymous -- To you / Karla Kuskin -- 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.
March / John Updike -- Morning has broken / Eleanor Farjeon -- When Irish eyes are smiling / Chauncey Olcott, Geo. Graff Jr. ; Ernest R. Ball -- On St. Patrick's Day / Jenny Whitehead -- The Fourteenth Day of Adar / Barbara Juster Esbensen -- Spring / Karla Kuskin -- Now that Spring is here ... / Barbara Juster Esbensen ; April Fool / Myra Cohn Livingston -- April / Sara Teasdale -- A little boy's rainy day / Johnny Mercer; 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 / Oscar Hammerstein II, William Hammerstein II ; 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 / Hal Hackady; Larry Grossman -- Memorial Day / Constance Andrea Keremes.
June / John Updike -- Skylark / Katrina Porteous -- Today / Billy Collins -- Flags / Julie Andrews -- Hang out the flag / James S. Tippett -- in daddy's arms / Folami Abiade -- For Father's Day / Rachel Field -- Experiment / Cole Porter -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- Midsummer night / Rupert S. Holland ; 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 ; 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.
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 ; 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 / 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 ; 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 / Herbert S. Brown; 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.
Sabbath bells / John Clare -- Havdalah / Carol Adler -- Sunday morning breakfast time / Cole Porter ; Happy birthday from your loving brother / Bruce Lansky -- Good-bye, six--Hello, seven / Judith Viorst -- Half birthday / Amy Krouse Rosenthal -- If we didn't have birthdays / Dr. Seuss ; Étude réaliste / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Brother / Mary Ann Hoberman -- Six weeks old / Christopher Morley -- Perambulator poem / David McCord ; A quiet thing / Fred Ebb, John Kander -- Sunrise, sunset / Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock -- Nothing like the sun / Emma Walton Hamilton -- Death Is nothing at all / Henry Scott Holland -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- May the road rise to meet you / Anonymous -- Index : Holidays & celebrations & their corresponding poems.
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