Winter Friends by Mary Quattlebaum and illustrated by Hiroe Nakata is a book of linked poems that tell the story of a little girl who lives in a city and goes out to play in the snow. In the snow she finds a lone blue mitten and eventually finds the little boy who has misplaced it. The poems are just the right length to share with preschoolers and have subjects that any child will relate to from jumping into clean laundry to my favorite poem in the book about seeing your breath on cold days.
Accessible, filled with lovely language, and paired with lovely illustrations, this is a great book to introduce young children to poetry.