Washoe County Library System

Not the lamb or the goat or the mule or the dove was born on the first Christmas long ago, but a special child was.

A collection of nativity poems featuring animals who travel from afar to be at the manger of baby Jesus and protect him from the snow.

Moo the cow has big dreams of seeing the world beyond her own farm and so heads towards the bay where she boards a ship for the high seas, yet while on her exciting journey, Moo crosses paths with Captain Red Angus and thinks that she may have stumbled upon a pirate ship

Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...

"Twas the night before Easter, just before dawn, Not a creature was stirring out on the lawn."The Easter bunny takes center stage in this delightful spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem that will send families hopping to the bookstore for an Easter treat sweeter than any sugar plum!

An expanded version of the nineteenth-century poem in which a small girl accompanies a star on a journey through the night sky, examining both heavenly bodies and the earth below.

Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.

Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.

Fancy Nancy and her class learn about poetry and write their own poems to read on Family Day at school.