US Children’s Poetry Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt picks what he considers is the best children’s poetry books in the following site http://www.poetryfoundation.org/children/poet-laureate-book-picks

Kenn Nesbitt was born in Berkeley, California. He grew up in Fresno and San Diego and attended National University in San Diego, where he majored in computer science. Nesbitt’s poetry for children is “irrepressible, unpredictable, and raucously popular,” in the words of former Children’s Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis.