Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize

Whisper and Shout: Poems to Memorize, ed. by Patrice Vecchione, offers up more than 50 poems for kids to commit to memory, from Gwendolyn Brooks's opening call to action, ""Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward"" to e.e. cummings's alliterative ""maggie and milly and molly and may"" to Langston Hughes and Shakespeare. The volume concludes with brief biographies and a suggested reading list for each poet. (Apr.)