I'm Going to Pet a Worm Today: And Other Poems

Levy knows children and she knows nature. Really knows. This, I think, is her best book. Levy writes "real" poems, not just children's rhymes or inaccesible vignettes formatted as poetry. Some are light; some are touching (the dead robin); all are enlightening. To my mind, she's best American living children's poet I've read. Her poems are lyrical, sweet, full of appealing detail, graceful, fresh, a joy to read and to read to a child. If your child is amenable to poetry at all, she should enjoy this this book.