(3) PS Illustrated by Hiroe Nakata. What happens to a rubber ball left outside alone? Caterpillar crawls by it. Bumblebee buzzes it. Woodpecker pecks it. Everyone seems to reject it until a playful dog finds it and takes "it home to keep." The short sentences have fun rhythms and sounds, and the loose watercolor illustrations show what is happening in the yard behind the ball.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley

(2) K-3 Illustrated by David Soman. Encompassing both the lively and reflective natures of H2O, these thirty-four poems demonstrate a telling sense of rhythm, dramatically effective line breaks, and, throughout, a trust in ordinary language. The lines are short, the rhymes varied and un-jingly, and splashes of humor accent the essentially lyrical mood. Modest and simple, the watercolor illustrations enhance tone rather than impose interpretation.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2002

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield. Cricket song, icicles, weeds, and comets are some of the closely observed subjects of these poems. Using simple language and varied cadences, Levy's brief, humor-imbued poems render the familiar fresh. A bur is "a pod / of seeds / with an urge / to travel / but no wings to fly"; a large spider web is "lacy and round / a tablecloth / for a manhole cover." For fostering new ways of seeing the everyday world, this is accessible and engaging.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute