“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in 1913 from a bedroom window looking out upon a winding network of fall colors in rural New Jersey. “Trees” is a poem ...
The third book in a series (begun with Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems, also illustrated by Barbour), this picture book collection is a linguistic pleasure. Works by Emily Dickinson, Eve Merriam and ...