Summer Days and Nights, by Wong Herbert Yee, is a sweet little picture book that follows a young girl on her adventures on a summer day ... chasing butterflies, on a picnic, or in her wading pool. At night, when she can't sleep, she and her dad go on a night time walk. Lovely pictures, book is in rhyme.

Although there are poems here for the entire year I'm including it in a summer post because of the title: Firefly July: a Year of Very Short Poems, selected by Paul B. Janeczko and illustrated by Melissa Sweet. What fun! There are poems about snow, screen doors, fog, and, of course, fireflies!

Reading Hermit With Dog