The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

Moore, Lilian

I'm Small and Other Verses

24 pp. | Candlewick | April, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-1169-7 $$13.99

(2) PS Illustrated by Jill McElmurry. This well-conceived and well-executed collection features a luxuriously spacious page layout, with only one or two poems per double-page spread. The spreads always give the child reader a focus--and that focus is usually another child. Eighteen poems in twenty-four pages may seem scant, but anyone who shares this just-right collection with a child will discover that, indeed, less is Moore.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2001