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Brown, Margaret Wise

Give Yourself to the Rain: Poems for the Very Young

32 pp. | McElderry | March, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-689-83344-X $$16.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Teri L. Weidner. This collection of Brown's poems, most of which have not been previously published, contains twenty-four rhymes suited to young children. Some of the poems are funny, others serious or imaginative, but all focus on the small details of life and give readers language to describe the world. Weidner's watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations are sentimental and much less interesting than the poetry.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth