(2) K-3 Illustrated by Robin Bell Corfield. Even though the little ones are supposed to have their eyes closed while you whisper "Hushabye my darling / Don't you make a peep," give them a chance to look at the dreamy twilit sketches in this veddy English--and very pretty--collection of go-to-sleep verses. Selections both familiar and new, from the famous and the folk, are included. But the real draw is Corfield's pictures of sleepy babes and pastoral landscapes.

Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999

(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