Give Yourself to the Rain : Poems for the Very Young

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Summary: Poems perfect for the very young
Review: Written with Margaret Wise Brown's uncanny knack for the ear of the youngest listeners and readers, these previously unpublished poems have found a match for their eyes with Teri Weidner's gentle, quietly glorious illustrations filling each page. For the title poem, a child looks wistfully out a rain-flecked window. "Never has the grass been so green" is more cheeringly adorned with smiling leonine dandelions. "Pig Jig" is genuinely funny in text and drawing. Adults won't be bored by the poetry or the pictures. The poems are short, set in short lines, not unlike "Goodnight Moon," comfortably reread often; the drawings are all a pleasure to view again; the size of the book (8 1/2 by 11) seems ideally suited to be held in chair or bed with children of the intended age -- "the very young." From our household, this charming volume gets an unqualifiedly favorable recommendation.