It’s time to celebrate with Read-Aloud time!

More than 30 original poems your family will enjoy for Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day; and many other holidays throughout the year.

Included:

Four Winds
Turn of the Year
Dream of a Promised Land
Shoveling Snow
Groundhog Day
Making Valentines
Valentine Cookies
Do You Love Me?
Daffodils
Flying Kites
(from Fun Time Read-Aloud, Read-Along Rhymes: Poems of Work and Play)
My Lucky Leprechaun
No Matter What the Groundhog Saw
Easter
April Fool
Mother’s Day
First Day of Swimming
Summer Bird Calls
Summer Night
(from Bedtime Read-Aloud, Read-Along Rhymes: Quiet Poems for the End of the Day)
On the Fourth of July
The Lightning Show
Last Day of Summer Walk
Autumn Changes
Halloween is Coming Soon
Trick or Treat
Honor
Thanksgiving Thoughts
When Will It Be Winter?
Mrs. Santa’s Night Before Christmas
Carol of the Mice
(From Mrs. Middlejoy and the Minister’s Cat)
Christmas Morning in Our House
The Old Year Cake on New Year’s Eve
Staying Up on New Year’s Eve
One More Year-Round Rhyme

Excerpt:

(Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17)
MY LUCKY LEPRECHAUN

I dreamed I heard a leprechaun
Just before I woke
The morning of Saint Patrick’s Day
And this is what he spoke:

“I’m from the hills of Ireland,
A magic land of green
Where shamrocks grow on river banks
And rainbows can be seen.

‘Tis said at every rainbow’s end
There lies a pot of gold,
But it’s always in the distance,
Something you can never hold.

“Unless you know a leprechaun!
And then, he’ll let you keep
The lucky gold to dream with
Every time you fall asleep.

“So on this fair Saint Patrick’s Day
Remember, and take heart.
For now you know a leprechaun
And your good luck will start!”

I woke and sat up straight in bed.
And through my windowpane
I saw a shining rainbow through
A sparkling morning rain.

Far out in the distance
I could see the rainbow’s end.
And I’ve never lost that golden dream
Or the leprechaun, my friend!