A survey of poetry titles in the Children's Services Division's Notable Book Lists for 1956-1970. (PF)

The author discusses her anthology, focusing on the choice of ideas and subjects and the selection of poems best suited to express them. (RM)

The author, a member of the American Library Association's Task Force Committee to Stimulate Discussion of the Notable Children's Books, 1940-1970, (CSD), discusses the books chosen from 1940-1955 in the first of a two part article. (JG)

Asserts that apprehension of the unknown or incomprehensible that calls forth children's creative imagination, rather than comprehension or understanding, is why children enjoy poetry. (AEA)

Discusses challenges to realistic poetry in school libraries. Addresses what New Realism is being accepted today in the world of poetry. Discusses the author's experiences in dealing with a publisher who wanted a book of poetry about jolly parents and patient grandparents, not a book about families as they really are. (RS)

Discusses realism in children's poetry and a New Realism which dates from the 1960s. Suggests that the denial of realism occupies much of the efforts of Mother Goose reformers, who have carried on "for eons" over the violence, mayhem, and cruelty in the old nursery rhymes. (RS)

Criticizes the Poets in the Schools program and similar undertakings for praising students' writing excessively and thus failing to acquaint students with the discipline required to produce outstanding poetry. (DD)

Various approaches to teaching creative writing to children are described. The book contains many examples of children's writing and stresses the need to listen to the child, to praise, to make suggestions gently, and to encourage the child to use his own senses for firsthand impressions and to say what he truly feels. Some of the chapters discuss…