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 -- 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 -- 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 and Geo. Graff Jr.; music by 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. April Fool / Myra Cohn Livingston -- April / Sara Teasdale -- 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 and 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 -- 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 / lyrics and music by Cole Porter -- Remember / Joy Harjo -- 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
Sunday morning breakfast time / lyrics and music by Cole Porter
Birthdays. Happy birthday from your loving brother / Bruce Lansky
Hello, seven / Judith Viorst
Half birthday / Amy Krouse Rosenthal
If we didn't have birthdays / Dr. Seuss
New Babies. �Etude r�ealiste / Dr. Seuss
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 and John Kander
Sunrise, sunset / lyrics and music by Sheldon Harnick and 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
Holidays & Celebrations & Their Corresponding Poems.