4 stars
A sweet book of poetry covering a wide range of topics. Overall, the tone of the book is a positive, uplifting, and inspiring one with messages of love, acceptance, cooperation, and making the world a better place.
This is a great book for getting young children interested in poetry. It contains short, free style poetry with lyrical flow. The illustrations are beautiful and colorful. Many of the poems focus on issues girls deal with such as wind vs. dresses, body image, friendship, and assertiveness. A great mix of topics, some humorous, some inspiring, some a bit sad.
A few of my favorites in this collection were “Gumbo”, “Feelings”, and “Weird”.
A lovely book with some wonderful messages, great for introducing poetry to young readers.