One minute till bedtime: 60-second poems to send you off to sleep

Whew! / Kenn Nesbitt --

Paper people / Lisa Wheeler --

I like old stories / Kim Norman --

If I were a blue balloon / Ren�ee LaTulippe --

Roar / Donna Jo Napoli --

Stuffed animal collection / Eileen Spinelli --

Five little birds / Charles Waters --

Pidgeon / Jacqueline Jules --

Me at the sea / Betsy Franco --

Ocean fun / Avis Harley --

Water can be a ... / Carol-Ann Hoyte --

Gentle shower / Edel Wignell --

Backyard circus / Nikki Grimes --

Trampoline / Sara Holbrook --

Map of fun / Naomi Shihab Nye --

Sleepy / Santino Panzica --

Wave goodnight / Michael J. Rosen --

The road to morning / Kurt Cyrus --

My horse is floating in the air / Jack Prelutsky --

The big parade / Dennis Lee --

All at once / Jon Scieszka --

Poems can be silly / Kenn Nesbitt --

Dinnertime / Scott Seegert --

Friends on the menu / Alan Katz --

To market, to market / Diane Z. Shore --

My Uncle Joe / Michele Krueger --

Each day at the zoo is always new / Margarita Engle --

Lamb said, "mew" / David L. Harrison --

Our kittens / Amy Ludwig VanDerwater --

Running / Kate Coombs --

All in a day's work / Timothy Tocher --

The dandelion / Mark Carthew --

Wind / John Foster --

A hard rain / Greg Pincus --

Starry / John Rice --

Toasty warm jammies / Lorie Ann Grover --

Bedtime on 7th Avenue / Ron Koertge --

Sleepless / Bruce Lansky --

A friend to the rescue / Christine Heppermann --

Gesundheit / David L. Harrison --

An odd thing happened ... / Colin West --

Have I told you? / Kenn Nesbitt --

Bigger than big / Dennis Lee --

Our grandma kissed a pumpkin / Darren Sardelli --

I have a hat / Verla Kay --

Skateboard girl / B. J. Lee --

The tadpole bowl / Libby Martinez --

Puppy morning / Glenys Eskdale --

School bus / Kathryn Apel --

First day, Kindergarten / Sydra Mallery --

Hummer / Jen Bryant --

Seagull beach party / Sophie Masson --

An orchestra in my room / Meredith Costain --

God bless me / Brian P. Cleary --

River song / Sherryl Clark --

This is the hour / Liz Brownlee --

Sleepy / Lee Bennett Hopkins --

It's routine / Lee Wardlaw --

The seventeen Fitz Sisters / Andrea Perry --

Three bears aboard an iceberg / Samuel Kent --

On adopting a pet elephant / Linda Ashman.

What do you dream? / Kenn Nesbitt --

Grandpa's hair / Paul Orshoski --

My dad / Kathryn Apel --

Sleeping over / Celeste Walters --

Rolling down the hill / r April Halprin Wayland --

Socks on the washing line / Celia Warren --

Me and my feet / Donna Marie Merritt --

Flower power! / Heidi Bee Roemer --

Wild flowers / Bob Raczka --

Time to sleep / Carole Gerber --

Counting rhyme / Steven Withrow --

Monkey buisness / Jenny Erlanger --

A visit to the forest / Matt Forest Esenwine --

Hippo / Ann Whitford Paul --

Baby's bathtime / Brenda Williams --

Boof / Sonya Sones --

Bath time / Eric Ode --

The suit / Calef Brown --

PB patty / Tiffany Strelitz Haber --

Good-night poem / Ralph Fletcher --

Wiggle wiggle / Robert Pottle --

Ted, Ted, climb in bed / Kenn Nesbitt --

The "just because" hug / Robert Schechter --

The song of the littlest cat / J. Patrick Lewis --

Sky story / Rebecca Kai Dotlich --

Happy visits / Pat Mora --

We're bats / Laura Purdie Salas --

Crickets / Elaine Magliaro --

Rainbow / Betsy R. Rosenthal --

Tasty moon / Dianne Bates --

The banquet of the Sun / Nancy Willard --

Tuck a poem in your head / Joan Bransfield Graham --

The little red bed / Allan Wolf --

When daddy tucks me in / Joshua Seigal --

Little hand / Michelle Heidenrich Barnes --

Adventures in Slumberland / Chris Cook --

Oliver's one-man band / Jeff Mondak --

The fur-bearing trout / Robert Paul Weston --

Octopus / Harry Laing --

What to yell when you're trapped in the belly of a whale / James Carter --

Say goodnight / Kenn Nesbitt --

Playmate / Bobbi Katz --

me / Janeen Brian --

Dear Tooth Fairy, / Julia Durango --

My blankie / Elli Woodlard --

I can't sleep when it's hot / Janet Wong --

Mama and Papa / Helen Frost --

Duckling day / Cynthia Porter --

Shelter / Joyce Sidman --

Baseball season / Kelly Ramsdell Fineman --

In grandpa's barn / Marilyn Singer --

November volcano / Heidi Mordhorst --

September / Liz Rosenberg --

Years / Mary Ann Hoberman --

Tracks / Tracie Vaughn --

Jerry's snowman / Kalli Dakos --

Snow angels / Carole Gerber --

Bedtime / Julie Larios --

Bed, sweet bed / Brian Rock --

Q+U / Joe Mohr --

Count your blessings / Lemony Snicket --

The world's longest yawn / Mike Lucas.

How to fall asleep / Kenn Nesbitt --

Gran's visit / Sally Murphy --

Setting the table / Jane Yolen --

No peas / Teena Raffa-Mulligan --

Canoe / Juanita Havill --

How to live forever / Judith Viorst --

While I am asleep in my bed / Michael Salinger --

Air ships / Charles Ghigna --

Morning star / jackie Hosking --

Night flight / Ted Scheu --

Moon mice / Neal Levin --

Meeting a cow / Sharon Creech --

Old Ned / David Davis --

Armadillo / David Davis --

For Pete's snake / Linda Knaus --

My friend the chameleon / Nina Laden --

Sandra's pet / Martin Pierce --

Rock Pool / Matt Goodfellow --

I dreamed I met a unicorn / Dave Crawley --

Last poem / Stephanie Calmenson.