KEEP A POEM IN YOUR POCKET

Keep a poem in your pocket
and a picture in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.

The little poem will sing to you
the little picture bring to you
a dozen dreams to dance to you
at night when you're in bed.

So ~
Keep a picture in your pocket
and a poem in your head
and you'll never feel lonely
at night when you're in bed.

~ Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, American Children's Books Author (1914 - 2000)

A Lifetime Love of Language and Verse

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jackie and President John Kennedy, has compiled a delightful collection of poems drawing from the poems her family cherished. In A Family of Poems, My Favorite Poetry For Children, Caroline comments, "If our parents read to us as children, we remember the closeness of the moments together, the sound and power of voice and expression, the sense of wonder that a poem inspires."

"We all like to fool around, and playing with sounds and language is one of the first ways we explore our world. Silly poems are easy to collect and memorize ~ they remind us that things that seem funny can be serious underneath ~ and enjoying them encourages us to try reading different kinds of poems. Soon enough we realize that there is no poem we can't tackle, no idea we can't understand."

A Family of Poems, Caroline Kennedy (1957 - ), Hyperion Books For Children, 2005.