cover image Poems of Childhood

Poems of Childhood

Joan Walsh Anglund. Harcourt Children's Books, $13 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-15-262961-8

Joan Walsh Anglund accompanies her trademark illustrations of doll-like children (bereft of mouths and noses) with equally pat verse in Poems of Childhood. A uniformly sing-song meter dominates: ""Sometimes the wind is wicked; it's as naughty as can be,"" begins one poem about a lost kite. A Children's BOMC selection.