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Cooling, Wendy, Compiler

Come to the Great World: Poems from around the Globe

45 pp. | Holiday | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1822-7 $$16.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sheila Moxley. Skipping over most of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, this is not a very international collection. The poems include some old favorites, such as "The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and a contemporary poem on the same subject by Valerie Bloom, a Jamaican living in England. Fresh, naively styled paintings make this an attractive collection. "About the poets" supplies some minimal information.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt