April is National Poetry Month so I have prepared a few posts about poetry books. While I do enjoy reading poetry from time to time, it's a rather limited 'like' in that I prefer a poem with rhythm and lines that rhyme.

I recently reread, and enjoyed, two from my childhood, which, conveniently, came in one volume. ;-) The World of Christopher Robin, by A.A. Milne contains both "When We Were Very Young" and "Now We Are Six". It was fun revisiting Buckingham Palace, and Solitude (even then I was a bit of a hermit), and determining that Puppy and I is still my favorite.

I seem to have a bit of a past with Robert Louis Stevenson. The first poem I remember memorizing is Rain, the first poem I remember a teacher reading to us is Windy Nights, and an early song from Camp Kirby is Where Go the Boats. My copy of A Child's Garden of Verses is illustrated by Michael Foreman.

Tall Reader loaned me Piping Down the Valleys Wild: a Merry Mix of Verse For All Ages, edited by Nancy Larrick and illustrated by Ellen Rasking and I liked it so much I got a copy for myself. I Like It When It's Mizzly describes some of our pnw days perfectly.

From the number of book marks in Magic Ring: a Collection of Verse for Children, edited by Ruth A. Brown and revised by H. Jean Breck, I must have found many poems that I like! (And upon rereading them, I had)!

I like designing cards and customizing them for a specific person. Once there was such a card and I could NOT find the perfect verse for it ... until I came across I saw a man pursuing the horizon, by Stephen Crane in A Child's Anthology of Poetry, edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword with Victoria Flournoy McCarthy. It was perfect (and it didn't even rhyme)!

Reading Hermit With Dog