(3) K-3 Illustrated by Kyrsten Brooker. Ryan O'Brian finds himself unable to stop writing poems--on paper, on a friend's shirt, and even on a table using French fries. The zippy rhyming narrative is kept separate from the many different types of Ryan's own poems (from acrostic to sonnet to limerick) woven into Brooker's vivid, dynamic collage illustrations. A guide at the back explains each poetic form.

Reviewer: Siena Leslie

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Nancy Davis. In a follow-up to Splish, Splash, twenty-three poems celebrate light in forms familiar to young children, such as birthday candles and the full moon. Graphic design is the outstanding feature here, as the typography is used to intensify the shapes of the poems, not only with size and placement but with color as well, so that the words themselves become part of the surrounding illustration. This should have appeal to visual learners.

Reviewer: Kathleen T. Horning | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2000