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

by Constance Levy and Ronald Himler

Thirty-nine poems about everyday things, mostly nature, from leaves on trees to eating peas and petting worms. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689505353
• ISBN13: 9780689505355
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

One of the Best

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.