EveryTHING IS A poem The Best of J Patrick Lewis with illustrations by Maria Cristina Pritelli Creative Digital
TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by J Patrick Lewis ANIMALS Elephant Bill Jackrabbit Jack 1987 Fireflies 1986 How the Yellow Jacket Lost Her Shyness 1992 Midnight Blue or The Cockroach’s Song 1992 Mosquito 1985 One Cow Two Moos 1985 Ocean Diners 1982 Snake Song 1986 A Tomcat Is 1986 PEOPLE Baby Contralto 1994 The Trumpeter 1996 The First American Woman in Space 1990 The First Human To Go Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel and Survive 1993 The First Man to Run a Four-Minute Mile 1988 The Biggest Bubble-Gum Bubble Ever Blown 1997 First Men on the Moon 1986 The Greatest 1991 I Decided to Stay Up in the Air Forever 1993 The Many and the Few 1993 READING A Book Is 2001 A Classic 2001 The Gentleman Bookworm 1995 Please Bury Me in the Library 2001 Great Good Bad 1995 Read Think Dream 1991 SPORTS Baseball Poem 2004 How the Book of Baseball Was Written 2005 The Kentucky Derby 1994 The Longest Home Run 2005 My Baseball Glove 2004 6 8 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 31 32 33 34 36 38 39 40 41 42 43 44
TABLE OF CONTENTS RIDDLES AND EPITAPHS Riddles 1993 2006 Tombstone Poems 2002 2005 A Dairy Farmer 2003 A Baseball Pitcher 2005 A Gardener 2002 A Schoolteacher 2002 MOTHER NATURE The First Recorded 6,000-Year-Old Tree in America 1999 The Gray of Day 2004 Her-i-Cane 1995 Nature’s Art Gallery 2010 Orange Johnson 1994 What a Day 2010 Weather by the Old Masters 2010 PLACES What to Wear Where 1995 Home Sweet Home 1995 Okefenokee Swamp Song 1992 Slowly around the U S A 1992 New Names Old Places 1998 46 52 52 53 53 53 54 57 59 60 63 65 66 68 69 70 72 73 A MIX Are Bluebirds Why Houses 74 Have Windows 2003 76 In the Middle of Your Face 1995 77 Jump-Rope Rhyme 1997 78 Postcard Poem 1996 79 Say Hay Won’t You Be Mine 1995 80 The Queen Takes Drawing Lessons 1995 82 The Tablespoon Gallops Away 1993 Under the Kissletoe 2003 83 The Very Very Finicky Queen of Trouble 1996 84 Why Santa Sometimes Prefers the Front Door 2003 86 Everything Is a Poem 2010 87
