Poetry for Changing Seasons

To celebrate the beginning of a new season, we love a themed Poetry Teatime! Revisiting poems from a few of the same treasured volumes is a sweet way to mark the passing of time, and look forward to the changes in the world around us. My bookworms enjoy setting the table with seasonal items to make it even more festive! (

Here are our favorite books that we pull out for each season:

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When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for all Seasons by Julie Fogliano; illustrated by Julia Morstad. (Author of the acclaimed And Then It’s Spring, another great seasonal book for springtime!) This volume is told in poetic journal entries, with scattered dates throughout the months. The beautiful illustrations complement the poems which are a sensory treat!

Hi, Koo! A Year of Seasons by Jon J. Muth. As you probably guessed, this poetry volume is told entirely in haiku (and, an alphabet “search and find” is scattered throughout by finding the capitalized letters). A quick read, but such a fun romp through the year! (Also look for Muth’s other books, including the Caldecott Honor, Zen Shorts.)

Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year, selected by Fiona Waters; illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon. Unlike the other books on this list, this volume is hefty! At 330 pages long, featuring 366 poems, this book could follow you the whole year through, reading a poem a day. It’s a nature treasure and includes a great variety of poets. Poems are all short, so you could read through a month in a sitting without trouble.

Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko; illlustrated by Melissa Sweet. The title of this compilation refers to a poem by J. Patrick Lewis (previous Young People’s Poetry Laureate). As the subtitle suggests, this volume contains very short poems (a dozen or fewer lines) by a variety of well known poets, beside colorful and whimsical illustrations.

To read more about Poetry Teatime in our home, including how we got started, go here.

For our first favorite poetry books, go here.

What are your seasonal traditions? Share with me in the comments below, or at my Instagram or Facebook accounts! The books mentioned may be available at your local library, or at the affiliate links provided.  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.