ISBN 0525471723
$15.99 US
Dutton/​Penguin
March 2004

Please remember my poems are my property. Enjoy them but do not reprint them for other than classroom use.

Thank you

Pocket Poems was named a best book of 2004 by Parents' Magazine.

Pocket Poems

What if every kid could start the day with a rhyme, rhythms, and fresh images? What if poems were right there from wake-up time through breakfast? What if they continued on the way to school, in school itself-even lunch hour, recess, and after school silly time? Pocket Poems does just that all through the day until bedtime!

Most of the poems are short and easy to memorize, which makes the book perfect for "Poem in Your Pocket Day" or performing for school assemblies or Parents' Nights. The anthology includes such stars as Jack Prelutsky, Eve Merriam, Aileen Fisher, and J. Patrick Lewis, along with poems written especially for the book by newer poets such as Monica Kulling and Robin Bernard. The opening poem is by no other than me, Bobbi Katz:

A Pocket Poem

With a poem in your pocket
and
a pocket in your pants
you can rock with new rhythms.
You can skip.
You can dance.
And wherever you go,
and whatever you do,
that poem in your pocket is going there, too.
You could misplace your homework.
You could lose your left shoe.
But that poem in your pocket will be part of you.
And nothing can take it.
And nothing can break it.
That poem in your pocket
becomes
part of...
YOU!

Copyright c2004 by Bobbi Katz














































Selected Works

Poetry
illustrated by Carin Berger; Greenwillow/Harper Collins 2007
illustrated by LeUyen Pham; Harcourt Books 2006
illustrated by Marilyn Hafner; Dutton March 2004
illustrated by Susan Estelle Kwas; Dutton 2001
illustrated by Nina Crews; Greenwillow/Harper Collins 2000
illustrated by Joung Un Kim; Mondo Publishing 1997
illustrated by Steve Bjorkman; Scholastic 1996
Prose
Selected by Deak and Litchman; HarperCollins 2003
Professional Books
Scholastic Professional Books 2006
Scholastic Professional Books 2000