My 7 year old has to look at poems. Does anyone know of any good kids poems?

Question:

My 7 year old has to look at poems. Does anyone know of any good kids poems?

I remember, vaguely, a poem about Colonel Fazackerly Butterworth Toast. But I don't know who wrote it?!!!!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

You should encourage your son to read poems of different genres and by different poets. This will also affect his writing style later on in life...for the better.

You get anthologies of poems. For a 7 year old, you should select clean limericks, and short and simple poems. Ballads will be good too as they're in a story form.

I personally recommend "poem tree" which is available in print form and is graded according to difficulty level, and is especially designed for children...

It offers a wide range of poems for children. You can start him off with book 1. When he finishes that you can move on to the next one....and so on.

You can have a look at the online selection on:
http://www.poemtree.com/

The ones in print are graded unlike the online edition....however, you can also browse the poems per poet and select those you think your son would like at his age...

You can have a look at the selection