small poems again (1975) will inspire a child's imagination. Valerie Worth's "robins" begins with last year's leaves that "Blunder Along Like flimsy Flightless Birds, Stumbling Beak over Tail Before The wind. This image, so beautifully rendered by Natalie Babbitt becomes today's robins "Running On steady Stems across The ground." Worth's twenty-five poems are about animals, insects, birds, food, nature, and few everyday objects. The publication is small enough to nestle comfortably in a young reader's hands.
