All children's and YA poetry is in room 204, call numbers PZ5. (author's last name).
"Treat a poem like a picture book: read it, read it again, read it aloud, look at it. Where prose encourages linear reading from first word to last, poetry ask us to dawdle, stopping here and there, re-examining a previous line in the light of a later one, wondering why a line break - just like a picture book's page turn - happens where it does. If a novel's job is to make us curious about what happens next, a poem - more sculpture than movie - is always gently reminding us that there's no rush. You and it have no place else to be soon. Pull up a chair." -Roger Sutton, editor in chief of Horn Book magazine.
