Kids'+Poet+Laureate+2008

=Mary Ann Hoberman= was named America's second Children's Poet Laureate, a position that aims to instill a love of poetry in children.

The following titles are availbale at the ISB libraries:

Miss Mary Mack The eensy-weensy spider My song is beautiful : poems and pictures in many voices Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers : a collection of family poems A fine fat pig, and other animal poems You read to me, I'll read to you : very short Mother Goose tales to read together You read to me, I'll read to you : very short stories to read together A house is a house for me The cozy book It's simple, said Simon One of each The seven silly eaters Whose garden is it

The first US Children's Poet was **Jack Prelutsky** who received the award in 2006.