A collection of poems that can be read in sixty seconds features the work of celebrated writers, including Jon Scieszka, Nikki Grimes, and Lemony Snicket.

Whew!/Kenn Nesbitt -- Paper people/Lisa Wheeler -- I like old stories/Kim Norman -- If I were a blue balloon/Rene LaTulippe -- Roar/Donna Jo Napoli -- Stuffed animal collection/Eileen Spinelli -- Five little birds/Charles Waters -- Pigeon/Jacqueline Jules -- Me at the sea/Betsy Franco -- Ocean fun/Avis Harley -- Water can be a .../Carol-Ann Hoyte -- Gentle shower/Edel Wignell -- Backyard circus/Nikki Grimes -- Trampoline/Sara Holbrook -- Map of fun/Naomi Shihab Nye -- Sleepy/Santino Panzica -- Wave goodnight/Michael J. Rosen -- The road to morning/Kurt Cyrus -- My horse is floating in the air/Jack Prelutsky -- The big parade/Dennis Lee -- All at once/Jon Scieszka -- Poems can be silly/Kenn Nesbitt -- Dinnertime/Scott Seegert -- Friends on the menu/Alan Katz -- To market, to market/Diane Z. Shore -- My Uncle Joe/Michele Krueger -- Each day at the zoo is always new/Margarita Engle -- Lamb said, "mew"/David L. Harrison -- Our kittens/Amy Ludwig VanDerwater -- Running/Kate Coombs -- All in a day's work/Timothy Tocher -- The dandelion/Mark Carthew -- Wind/John Foster -- A hard rain/Greg Pincus -- Starry/John Rice -- Toasty warm jammies/Lorie Ann Grover -- Bedtime on 7th Avenue/Ron Koertge -- Sleepless/Bruce Lansky -- A friend to the rescue/Christine Heppermann -- Gesundheit/David L. Harrison -- An odd thing happened .../Colin West -- Have I told you?/Kenn Nesbitt -- Bigger than big/Dennis Lee -- Our grandma kissed a pumpkin/Darren Sardelli -- I have a hat/Verla Kay -- Skateboard girl/B. J. Lee -- The tadpole bowl/Libby Martinez -- Puppy morning/Glenys Eskdale -- School bus/Kathryn Apel -- First day, Kindergarten/Sydra Mallery -- Hummer/ Jen Bryant -- Seagull beach party/Sophie Masson -- An orchestra in my room/Meredith Costain -- God bless me/Brian P. Cleary -- River song/Sherryl Clark -- This is the hour/Liz Brownlee -- Sleepy/Lee Bennett Hopkins -- It's routine/Lee Wardlaw -- The seventeen Fitz Sisters/Andrea Perry -- Three bears aboard an iceberg/Samuel Kent -- On adopting a pet elephant/Linda Ashman. What do you dream?/Kenn Nesbitt -- Grandpa's hair/Paul Orshoski -- My dad/Kathryn Apel -- Sleeping over/Celeste Walters -- Rolling down the hill/r April Halprin Wayland -- Socks on the washing line/Celia Warren -- Me and my feet/Donna Marie Merritt -- Flower power!/Heidi Bee Roemer -- Wild flowers/Bob Raczka -- Time to sleep/Carole Gerber -- Counting rhyme/Steven Withrow -- Monkey business/Jenny Erlanger -- A visit to the forest/Matt Forest Esenwine -- Hippo/Ann Whitford Paul -- Baby's bathtime/Brenda Williams -- Boof/Sonya Sones -- Bath time/Eric Ode -- The suit/Calef Brown -- PB patty/Tiffany Strelitz Haber -- Good-night poem/Ralph Fletcher -- Wiggle wiggle/Robert Pottle -- Ted, Ted, climb in bed/Kenn Nesbitt -- The "just because" hug/Robert Schechter -- The song of the littlest cat/J. Patrick Lewis -- Sky story/Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Happy visits/Pat Mora -- We're bats/Laura Purdie Salas -- Crickets/Elaine Magliaro -- Rainbow/Betsy R. Rosenthal -- Tasty moon/Dianne Bates -- The banquet of the Sun/Nancy Willard -- Tuck a poem in your head/Joan Bransfield Graham -- The little red bed/Allan Wolf -- When daddy tucks me in/Joshua Seigal -- Little hand/Michelle Heidenrich Barnes -- Adventures in Slumberland/Chris Cook -- Oliver's one-man band/Jeff Mondak -- The fur-bearing trout/Robert Paul Weston -- Octopus/Harry Laing -- What to yell when you're trapped in the belly of a whale/James Carter -- Say goodnight/Kenn Nesbitt -- Playmate/Bobbi Katz -- me/Janeen Brian -- Dear Tooth Fairy/Julia Durango -- My blankie/Elli Woodlard -- I can't sleep when it's hot/Janet Wong -- Mama and Papa/Helen Frost -- Duckling day/Cynthia Porter -- Shelter/Joyce Sidman -- Baseball season/Kelly Ramsdell Fineman -- In grandpa's barn/Marilyn Singer -- November volcano/Heidi Mordhorst -- September/Liz Rosenberg -- Years/Mary Ann Hoberman -- Tracks/Tracie Vaughn -- Jerry's snowman/Kalli Dakos -- Snow angels/Carole Gerber -- Bedtime/Julie Larios -- Bed, sweet bed/Brian Rock -- Q+U/Joe Mohr -- Count your blessings/Lemony Snicket -- The world's longest yawn/Mike Lucas -- How to fall asleep/Kenn Nesbitt -- Gran's visit/Sally Murphy -- Setting the table/Jane Yolen -- No peas/Teena Raffa-Mulligan -- Canoe/Juanita Havill -- How to live forever/Judith Viorst -- While I am asleep in my bed/Michael Salinger -- Air ships/Charles Ghigna -- Morning star/Jackie Hosking -- Night flight/Ted Scheu -- Moon mice/Neal Levin -- Meeting a cow/Sharon Creech -- Old Ned/David Davis -- Armadillo/David Davis -- For Pete's snake/Linda Knaus -- My friend the chameleon/Nina Laden -- Sandra's pet/Martin Pierce -- Rock Pool/Matt Goodfellow -- I dreamed I met a unicorn/Dave Crawley -- Last poem/Stephanie Calmenson.