Sneak Peek list for 2017

It's time again to post my annual "sneak peek" list of all the poetry for young people that will be published in the coming year. This includes poetry collections,  anthologies and novels in verse. In addition, I plan to talk with publishers at the ALA Midwinter conference next week and update with more titles I learn about there. So, these are the titles that I know about thus far. If you know about other poetry for young readers set to be published this year (or have changes to suggest about these titles below), please let me know (in the comments). I'll be updating this list all year long, so it becomes a resource as you look for the latest poetry books for young people. There's a quick link to this post in the menu on the right-hand side of this blog, too, where I have links to all my previous "sneak peek" lists. As always, I'm so excited to find, get, and read all of these books! Congrats poets and yay for poetry readers! 

1. *Acevedo, Elizabeth. 2017. The Poet X. HarperTeen.
2. *Ain, Beth. 2017. Izzy Kline Has Butterflies. Random House.
3. *Alene, Catherine. 2017. The Sky Between You and Me. Sourcebooks.
4. Alexander, Kwame. 2017. Animal Ark. National Geographic.
5. Alexander, Kwame. 2017. Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets. Candlewick.
6. Alexander, Kwame. 2017. The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
7. *Alexander, Kwame and Hess, Mary Rand. 2017. Solo. Blink/HarperCollins.
8. Alexander, Kwame. 2017. Swish!: Aim, Shoot, Rebound, and Score in This Game Called Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
9. *Atkins, Jeannine. 2017. Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis. Simon & Schuster.
10. Benzel, Kate, Ed. 2017. Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg. MoonDance Press.
11. Brooks, Gwendolyn. 2018. We Are Smiling. Ill. by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. HarperCollins.
12. *Cartaya, Pablo. 2017. The Epic Fall of Arturo Zamora. Penguin/Viking.
13. Clickard, Carrie. 2017. Dumpling Dreams: Joyce Chen and Her Peking Ravioli. Simon & Schuster.
14. Colby, Rebecca. 2017. Motor Goose: Rhymes That Go! Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan.
15. Coombs, Kate. 2017. Breathe and Be: A Book of Mindfulness Poems. Sounds True.
16. *Crossan, Sarah and Conaghan. 2017. We Come Apart. Bloomsbury USA.
17. Dalton, Pamela. 2017. Under the Silver Moon: Lullabies, Night Songs, & Poems. Chronicle/Handprint.
18. Davies, Nicola. 2017. Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals. Candlewick.
19. Derby, Sally. 2017. A New School Year. Charlesbridge.
20. Drimmer, Stephanie. 2017. Hey, Baby!: A Collection of Pictures, Poems, and Stories from Nature's Nursery. National Geographic.
21. *Elliott, David. 2017. Bull. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
22. Engle, Margarita. 2017. Bravo! Poems About Amazing Latinos. Ill. by Rafael Lopez. Macmillan/Henry Holt.
23. Engle, Margarita. 2017. All the Way to Havana. Ill. by Mike Curato. Holt.
24. *Engle, Margarita. 2017. Forest World. Atheneum.
25. *Engle, Margarita. 2017. Morning Star Horse/ El Caballo Lucero. HBE Publishers. 
26. Engle, Margarita. 2017. Miguel’s Brave Knight. Ill. by Raul Colon. Peachtree. 
27. Foster, John. Ed. 2017. A Rocketful of Space Poems. Frances Lincoln.
28. *Frost, Helen. 2017. When My Sister Started Kissing. Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
29. Frost, Helen. 2017. Wake Up. Ill. by Rick Lieder. Candlewick.
30. Galing, Ed. 2017. Tony. Ill. by Erin Stead. Roaring Brook Press.
31. *Green, Shari. 2017. Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess. Pajama Press.
32. *Grimes, Nikki. 2017. Between the Lines. Penguin/Paulsen.
33. Grimes, Nikki. 2017. One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomsbury.
34. Grimes, Nikki. 2017. The Watcher. Ill. by Bryan Collier. Eerdmans.
35. Harris, Chris. 2017. I'm Just No Good at Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown Ups. Little, Brown.
36. *Hopkins, Ellen. 2017. The You I've Never Known. McElderry Books.
37. Hopkins, Lee Bennett. Ed. 2017. Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea. Ill. by Bob Hansman & Jovan Hansman. Quarto. 
38. Howell, Raven. 2017. Shimmer: Songs of Night. Spork.
39. Hughes, Langston. 2017. That Is My Dream! Ill. by Daniel Miyares. Random House/ Schwartz & Wade. 
40. Jensen, Kelly. 2017. Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World. Algonquin. 
41. Judge, Lita. 2017. One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II. Disney-Hyperion. 
42. Keats, John. 2017. A Song About Myself. Ill. by Chris Raschka. Candlewick. 
43. Latham, Irene and Waters, Charles. 2017. Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Millbrook Press.
44. *Lawrence, Katherine. 2017. Stay. Coteau Books.
45. Lawson, JonArno. 2017. Leap. Ill. by Josee Bisallion. Kids Can Press.
46. Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Keep a Pocket in Your Poem. Ill. by Johanna Wright. Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong.
47. Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Make the Earth Your Companion. Ill. by Anna and Elena Balbusso. Creative Editions.
48. Lilly, Tara. 2017. The Illustrated Emily Dickinson Nature Sketchbook: A Poetry-Inspired Drawing Journal. Quarry Books.
49. Llanos, Mariana. 2017. Poesia Alada. Purple Corn Press.
50. Magliaro, Elaine. 2017. Things to Do. Ill. by Catia Chien. Chronicle.
51. McKissack, Patricia. 2017. Let’s Clap, Jump, Sing and Shout; Dance, Spin, and Turn it Out! Ill. by Brian Pinkney. Random House Schwartz & Wade. 
52. Mercado-López. 2017. Esteban de Luna, Baby Rescuer!/ Esteban de Luna, Rescatador de Bebés! Arte Público Press.
53. *Merrell, Billy. 2017. Vanilla. Push/Scholastic.
54. Mora, Pat. 2017. Bookjoy, Wordjoy. Lee & Low.
55. Moore, Clement C. 2017. The Night Before Christmas. Ill. by Antonio Javier Caparo. Simon & Schuster/Little Simon.
56. Murray, Carol. 2017. Cricket in the Thicket: Poems About Bugs. Ill. by Melissa Sweet. Holt.
57. Nesbitt, Kenn. Ed. 2017. One Minute till Bedtime: 60-Second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep. Little, Brown.
58. Oliver, Lin. 2017. Steppin’ Out: Playful Rhymes for Toddler Times. Ill. by Tomie de Paola. Penguin/Paulsen.
59. Otheguy, Emma. 2017. Martí's Song for Freedom. Lee & Low.
60. Patterson, Heather. (1996/2017). I Am Canada. Scholastic Canada.
61. Perkins, Useni Eugene. 2017. Hey Black Child. Ill. by Bryan Collier. Little, Brown. 
62. *Powell, Patricia Hruby. 2017. Loving Vs. Virginia. Chronicle.
63. Powell, Patricia Hruby. 2017. Struttin’ with Some Barbecue. Charlesbridge.
64. Rex, Adam. 2017. Nothing Rhymes with Orange. Chronicle.
65. *Reynolds, Jason. 2017. Long Way Down. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum/Caitlyn Diouhy Books.  
66. Salas, Laura Purdie. 2017. If You Were the Moon. Ill. by Jaime Kim. Lerner/Millbrook.
67. Schaub, Michelle. 2017. Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market. Ill. by Amy Huntington. Charlesbridge.
68. Sidman, Joyce. 2017. Round. Ill. by Taeeun Yoo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 
69. Silverstein, Shel. 2017. [Untitled thus far]. HarperCollins.
70. Singer, Marilyn. 2017. Every Month’s New Year. Ill. by Susan Roth. Lee & Low.
71. Singer, Marilyn. 2017. Feel the Beat:  Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing.  Dial.
72. Smith, Dana. 2017. The Hawk of the Castle. Ill. by Bagram Ibatoulline. Candlewick.
73. Smith, Hope Anita. 2017. My Daddy Rules the World: Poems About Fathers. Holt/Christy Ottaviano.
74. Stevenson, Robert Louis. 2017. The Land of Nod. Ill. by Robert Hunter. Flying Eye Books.
75. Tibo, Gilles and Gauthier, Mason. 2017. All the World a Poem. Pajama Press.
76. Toht, Patricia. 2017. All Aboard the London Bus. Frances Lincoln/Quarto.
77. VanDerwater, Amy. 2017. Read! Read! Read! Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
78. Vardell, Sylvia and Wong, Janet. 2017. Here We Go: A Poetry Friday Power Book. Pomelo Books.
79. Vardell, Sylvia and Wong, Janet. 2017. Pet Crazy: A Poetry Friday Power Book. Pomelo Books. 
80. Weatherford, Carole. 2017. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library. Ill. by Eric Velazquez. Candlewick Press. 
81. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2017. In Your Hands. Ill. by Brian Pinkney.  Athenuem.
82. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2017.The Legendary Miss Lena Horne. Ill. by Elizabeth Zunon. Athenuem.
83. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2017. Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression. Ill. by Jane Green. Albert Whitman. 
84. Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2017. Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library. Candlewick.
85. Weston, Robert Paul. 2017. Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms. Ill. by Misa Saburi. Random House Canada.
86. Wilson, Karma. 2017. Dormouse Dreams. Ill. by Renata Liwska. Disney-Hyperion.
87. *Wissinger, Tamera Will. 2017. Gone Camping. Ill. by Matthew Cordell. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
88. *Wolf, Allan. 2017. Who Killed Christopher Goodman? Based on a True Crime. Candlewick.
89. Yolen, Jane and Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs. Ill. by Charlesbridge.
90. Yolen, Jane. 2017. Thunder Underground. Ill. by Josée Masse. Boyds Mills Press.

*These are novels in verse

BTW, this list includes books that have SOME poetry, but may not be entirely poetry. And I'll keep updating this list as I hear of new titles to add.

I'm also so proud to have two books coming out this year as part of the Poetry Friday Power Book series with Janet Wong. Our first in this series, You Just Wait, came out last year and has earned an "NCTE Notable Poetry Book" distinction. So excited about that! Our second book in the series officially launches on Monday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That book is entitled, Here We Go and is a story in poems about four young friends who are coping with challenges at home and at school and muster their energies to become gardening activists! Plus, the book includes activities for young people to inspire creativity, critical thinking, and poetry writing. 

Meanwhile, head over to Keri Recommends, to see what else is going on this Poetry Friday!