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32 pp.
| Boyds/Wordsong
| September, 2003
|
TradeISBN 1-56397-028-7$$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Allan Eitzen
&
Allan Eitzen.
In this uneven collection of short rhyming poems for young children, Smith mixes old chestnuts with less well known pieces, producing a somewhat disarming mixture of novel and familiar verse. Like the poems themselves, some of the illustrations are animated and engaging, and some are rather humdrum.