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Genevieve
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I've been inspired by Lissa's blog to introduce poetry into our read-alouds. However I'm having a hard time finding a introductory book for my 2.5 yr in the library. Any suggestions ? Thanks!
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Mother Goose is poetry. My son (almost 2) loves that.
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field is a poem-prayer.
What about Robert Louis Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses? Illustrated by Tasha Tudor makes it even better!
And A.A. Milne's Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young are great beginning poetry.
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I have a 2.5 yr old who loves Shel Silverstein. Try Where the Sidewalk Ends.
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We 2nd all the above recommendations. We do also like Stamp Your Feet Action Rhymes by Sarah Hayes and Toni Goffe.
Another good poetry book I purchased when my ds was 3 is The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury selected by Jack Prelutsky.
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My 3 year old really likes the Mother Goose Nursury Rhymes, too. We also, really enjoy the Wee Sing Nursury Songs cd which has a little story and the poetry set to music...it has been a huge help in memorizing Mother Goose!
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Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs are great (and fun to read, too)...
Our library has a great cd of Shel Silverstein reading and singing his poems that my kids love, too.
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My youngest is 3 and we like A Small Child's Book of Cozy Poems, illustrated by Cyndy Szekeres, and also A Child's Book of Poems, with pictures by Gyo Fujikawa.
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I'm a little late on this thread, just catching up a bit. We really enjoyed Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti.
Also any of the poems in the Helen Ferris
Favorite Poems Old and New can be read aloud to any age child, it's packed and will last ALL your home schooling years! HTH. 
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We just borrowed from the library A Zooful of Animals. I have returned it and can no longer remember the author.....hmmmm....I'll have to look it up.
Ds actually had me read the whole book in one sitting!
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Ted Jacobs recorded a great little cd of Robert L. Stevenson's "Childs Garden of Verses". I really, really like this cd (that, and its companion "The Days Gone By") and *I* play them for enjoyment, as well as for the enjoyment and learning curve it provides for my children. They have painlessly learned/reviewed RLS poems like "The Wind", and "Bed in Winter", and other poems like "Winken, Blinken and Nod" and "The Sugar Gum Tree". Wonderful cds---that I've plugged repeatedly, but I really don't get a commision, promise! 
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Topic: Poetry for the very young
