Kids Virtual Galleries

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Poetry Virtual
Gallery.

If you are viewing the Virtual Gallery from home, you will need your Orange County resident library card to use some of the resources.

Library Online Resources

Booklist

Poetry Playground
Play with poetry and check out this poetry book list recommended by the Library.

Databases

Literature Resource Center
This database contains biographical information on more than 124,000 writers, information on authors appearing in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and more than 11,700 biocritical essays on authors and their works.

LitFinder
Use LitFinder to access 125,000 full text poems and 850,000 poem citations. It also includes explanations, subject access, biographies and pictures.

Read the Books!
Looking for a good book? Read the Books is chocked full of great suggestions and ideas for all kids! This is a fun way to find that next great read!

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Just for Teens

Bust-a-Rhyme Poetry
Check out the winners from the Library’s Bust-a-Rhyme Poetry Contests!

Poetry Picks for Teens
Check out these Library recommended poetry picks!

Submit Your Poems to the Library
Follow these simple steps and your poems can be featured on the library’s teen Web site!

Writing Tips
Use these writing tips to get your creative juices flowing.

Writing Web Sites for Teens
Use these Library recommended writing Web sites to help you get started.

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Poetry Challenge

(Answers are listed below the questions.)

1. Which bird is associated with nursery rhymes? (2 words)
Find the answer in World Book Online.

2. How many lines of verse does a haiku have? (1 word)
Find the answer in InfoTrac Kids’ Edition.

3. Who wrote A Light in the Attic? (2 words)
Hint: Do a search in Read the Books!

4. What do you call a poem that tells a short story about a person? (2 words)
Find the answer in World Book Online.

5. Which beloved author is better known as Dr. Seuss? (2 words)
You'll find the answer in Literature Resource Center.

1. a goose 2. three 3. Shel Silverstein
4. a ballad 5. Theodore Geisel

Library Materials

All-in-One Anthologies
Materials that provide readers an assortment of poems.

Future Poets
Materials to help you write your own poetry.

Great Poems for Children
Poetry books for children.

Haiku is for You
Read poetry books that are all about haiku.

Laugh Out Loud Limericks
Read poetry books that are all about limericks.

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Web Sites

Children’s Poetry
Read and listen to poetry written for children.

Educational Resources
Language Arts resources for children and teachers.

Funny Poetry
Poems that will make you laugh.

Poetry of Jack Prelutsky
Experience Jack Prelutsky’s poetry in this entertaining Web site.

Poetry of Shel Silverstein
A Web site dedicated to the poetry of Shel Silverstein.

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