Good Poetry Collections for Kids

[Leanne]

I have that one ("When We Were Very Young")... its cover is falling off and I don't think too hard about what's staining the pages...

I love "Silly Verse For Kids" by Spike Milligan -- especially "On the Ning Nang Nong":

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!