- Alarcón, Francisco X. 2016. Family Poems/ Poemas familiares. Ill. by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Lee & Low.
- Alexander, Kwame. 2016. Booked. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- Atkins, Jeannine. 2016. Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science. Atheneum/Simon & Schuster.
- Bint Mahmood, Ayesha. 2016. Thank You O Allah! Kube Publishing.
- Brown, Skila. 2016. To Stay Alive. Candlewick.
- Burg, Ann. 2016. Unbound. Scholastic.
- Caswell, Deanna. 2016. Guess Who Haiku. Abrams.
- Cleary, Brian P. 2016. I Saw an Invisible Lion Today: Quatrains. Lerner/Millbrook.
- Dolby, Karen. 2016. Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes from Past Times. Michael O’Mara Books.
- Donaldson, Julia. 2016. Songbook Treasury. Ill. by Axel Scheffler. Pan Macmillan.
- Donwerth-Chikamatsu, Annie. 2016. Somewhere Among. Simon & Schuster.
- Elya, Susan Middleton. 2016. ¡Celebración! Ill. by Ana Aranda.
- Elya, Susan Middleton. 2016. La Madre Goose: Nursery Rhymes for Los Niños. Ill. by Juana Martinez-Neal. Penguin Random House/Putnam.
- Engle, Margarita. 2016. Lion Island: Cuba’s Warrior of Words. Atheneum.
- Engle, Margarita. 2016. Morning Star Horse/ El Caballo Lucero. Translated by Alexis Romay. HBE Publishers (available in English bilingual [Spanish/English] editions)
- Fogliano, Julie. 2016. When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons. Ill. by Julie Morstad. Macmillan/Roaring Brook/Porter.
- Frost, Helen. 2016. Among a Thousand Fireflies. Ill. by Rick Lieder. Candlewick.
- Frost, Helen. 2016. Applesauce Weather. Ill. by Amy June Bates. Candlewick.
- Grimes, Nikki. 2016. Garvey’s Choice. Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
- Harrington, Janice L. 2016. Catching a Storyfish. Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
- Harrison, David L. 2016. Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Poems About Creatures that Hide. Ill. by Giles Laroche. Charlesbridge.
- Hepperman, Christine. 2016. Ask Me How I Got Here. HarperCollins.
- Herrington, Janice. 2016. Catching a Storyfish. Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
- Koyczan, Shane. 2016. To This Day. Annick Press.
- Latham, Irene. 2016. Fresh Delicious: Poems from the Farmers' Market. Ill. by Mique Moriuchi. Highlights/Wordsong.
- Latham, Irene. 2016. When the Sun Shines on Antarctica: And Other Poems About the Frozen Continent. Ill. by Anna Wadham. Millbrook Press.
- Lea, Synne. 2016. Night Guard. Ill. by Stian Hole. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers.
- Lewis, Jan. 2016. My Mother Goose Collection: Playtime Rhymes. Anness Publishing.
- Lewis, J. Patrick. 2016. Kooky Crumbs: Poems in Praise of Dizzy Days. Ill. by Mary Uhles. Kane-Miller.
- Lewis, J. Patrick. 2016. The Navajo Code Talkers. Ill. by Gary Kelley. Creative Editions.
- Lin, Grace and McKneally, Ranida T. 2016. Our Food. Ill. by Grace Zong. Charlesbridge.
- Luján, Jorge. 2016. Trunk to Trunklet. Ill. by Mandana Sadat. Brooklyn, NY: Enchanted Lion Books.
- Lowitz, Leza. 2016. Up From the Sea. Crown/Random House.
- Magliaro, Elaine. 2016. Things to Do. Chronicle.
- Marks, Alan. Ed. 2016. The People of the Town: Nursery Rhyme Friends for You and Me. Charlesbridge.
- McNally, Janet. 2016. Girls in the Moon. HarperTeen.
- Moser, Lisa. 2016. Stories from Bug Garden. Candlewick.
- Nelson, Marilyn. 2016. American Ace. Dial Books.
- Nesbitt, Kenn. Ed. 2016. One Minute Till Bedtime. Little Brown.
- Norris, Charles M. Ed. 2016. Mommy Goose: Rhymes from the Mountains. Ill. by Minnie Adkins. University Press of Kentucky.
- Orgill, Roxane. 2016. Jazz Day. Ill. by Francis Vallejo. Candlewick.
- Powell, Patricia Hruby. 2016. Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case. Ill. by Shadra Strickland. Chronicle
- Raczka, Bob. 2016. Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete Poems. Roaring Brook Press.
- Redgate, Riley. 2016. Seven Ways We Lie. Amulet/Abrams.
- Shovan, Laura. 2016. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Random House.
- Singer, Marilyn. 2016. Echo, Echo: Reverso Poems about Greek Myths. Ill. by Josée Masse. Dial.
- Singer, Marilyn. 2016. Miss Muffet, or What Came After? Ill. by David Litchfield. Clarion.
- Snively, Susan. 2016. Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson. Ill. by Christine Davenier. MoonDancePress. (Quarto)
- Steig, Jeanne and Steig, William. 2016. Divine Comedies: The Old Testament Made Easy and a Gift from Zeus. Simon & Schuster.
- Steig, Jeanne and Steig, William. 2016. Consider the Lemming (reissue). Simon & Schuster.
- Steig, Jeanne and Steig, William. 2016. Alpha Beta Chowder (reissue). Simon & Schuster.
- Stoop, Naoko. 2016. Sing with Me!Action Songs Every Child Should Know. Henry Holt.
- Stroud, Bettye. 2016. The World’s Wide Open. Ill. by Pat Cummings. Simon & Schuster.
- Thompson, Holly. 2016. Falling Into the Dragon’s Mouth. New York: Henry Holt.
- Trillin, Calvin. 2016. No Fair! No Fair! And Other Jolly Poems of Childhood. Ill. by Roz Chast. Scholastic/Orchard.
- Viorst, Judith. 2016. What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About?Poems for When a Person Needs a Poem. Ill. by Lee White. Simon & Schuster.
- Weatherford, Carole Boston. 2016. You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen. Simon & Schuster.
- Withrow, Steven and Stevens, Roger. 2016 It's Not My Fault. Bloomsbury UK/A&C Black.
- Yolen, Jane. 2016. The Alligator’s Smile and Other Poems. Lerner.
- Yolen, Jane and Dotlich, Rebecca Kai. 2016. Grumbles from the Town: Mother Goose Voices with a Twist. Ill. by Angela Matteson. Wordsong/Boyds Mills.
Rhyming Picture Books
Since posting my original list, I've discovered that some of these titles are rhyming picture books-- also lovely-- but I'm trying to focus specifically on poetry titles (including novels in verse). So, I'm starting a separate list below of poets' rhyming picture books. If someone else is already keeping such a list, please let me know and I can direct people there!
- Singer, Marilyn. 2016. What's an Apple? Ill. by Greg Pizzoli.
- Singer, Marilyn. 2016. What's a Banana? Ill. by Greg Pizzoli.
- Swinburne, Stephen. 2016. Safe in a Storm. Scholastic.
- Wing, Natasha. 2016. The Night Before the New Pet. Ill. by Amy Wummer. Penguin/Grosset & Dunlap.
- Wissinger, Tamera Will. 2016. There Was an Old Lady Who Gobbled a Skink. Ill. by Ana Bermejo.Sky Pony Press.
- Yolen, Jane. 2016. How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends? Ill. by Mark Teague. Scholastic.
- Yolen, Jane. 2016. On Bird Hill. Ill. by Bob Marstall. Cornell Lab Publishing Group.
- Yolen, Jane. 2016. What to Do with a Box. Ill. by Chris Shiban. Creative Editions.