All children (and adults, too) should read this collection of the Small Poems

Author: Valerie Worth
Illustrator: Natalie Babbitt
Format: Paperback
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994
 
All children (and adults, too) should read this collection of the Small Poems (originally published in four individual books) plus 14 additions. Worth's brief poems are simple, evocative, and perfect. They speak primarily of nature but touch on other wonders - shoes, kite, compass - as well. Each poem is accompanied by a simple, satisfying sketch.

"Ms. Worth brilliantly employs all aspects of the poet's craft."    ~The New York Times Book Review