These have all the rhythm and rhyme of Mother Goose, without cutting tails off blind mice or any King Cole smoking a pipe. ?áPlus, some of them have beautiful imagery - Merriam always has a good sense of what the world can look like through young eyes. ?áThe poems are untitled, but they're almost always one to a page so at least that's a cue where one ends and another begins. ?áThe illustrations are a bit simplistic, insufficiently diverse, but fine.

Knobby green pickle,
wrinkled purple prune,
what can you see
by the light of the moon?

Silver satin pickle,
velvet silver prune,
everything changes
in the light of the moon. ( )

You be good & I’ll be Night by Eve Merrian, pictures by Karen Lee Schmidt. It is a book of poems for young children. Most of the book illustrates animals as the characters. Then some of the poems characters are children. Some of the poems talk about weather. Most of the poems in the book talk about bedtime or sleeping.

I think this would be a good night time book for you to read to children or for young readers. My older son likes to read this book to his little sisters. The girls think it is so silly.

I would use this book in my class when I doing a lesson on rhyming words. You could also use this book when talking about weather. Final you could use the poems that talk bedtime.

The poems in this book are very clever and interesting, a good book for younger children and beginning readers.