A prolific (and popular) poet, Prelutsky provides poem starters for slightly older children. Young poets can either finish the “poemstarts” suggested here or create their own original poem.
Other books by this author
Awful Ogre’s Awful Day
Illustrator:
Paul O. Zelinsky Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry, Fairytales, Folk Tales, and Tall Tales 
Dog Days: Rhymes Around the Year
Illustrator:
Dyanna Wolcott Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Poetry 
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
Illustrator:
Lane Smith Age Level:
6-9 
I’ve Lost My Hippopotamus
Illustrator:
Jackie Urbanovic Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
If Not for the Cat
Illustrator:
Ted Rand Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
It’s Thanksgiving
Illustrator:
Marylin Hafner Age Level:
3-6 Genre:
Poetry 
My Parents Think I’m Sleeping
Illustrator:
Yossi Abolafia Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry 
Pizza, Pigs and Poetry: How to Write a Poem
Age Level:
9-12 
Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
Illustrator:
Marc Brown Age Level:
0-3 Genre:
Poetry 
Scranimals
Illustrator:
Peter Sís Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Fiction, Poetry 
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky and Other Poems
Illustrator:
Gilda Berger Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
The Carnival of the Animals
Illustrator:
Mary GrandPre Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry 
The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
Illustrator:
Petra Mathers Age Level:
3-6 
There’s No Place Like School: Classroom Poems
Illustrator:
Jane Manning Age Level:
6-9 Genre:
Poetry