all the small poems and fourteen more

I read a few poems from this book, but chose the “Safety Pen” to talk about on this blog.  I do believe that children will love this book because they will be able to relate to many objects, animals, insects or foods which Valerie Worth has written about and made into poems.  The Safety Pen was described as looking like a small, silver fish which has awakened from sleep.  Worth even writes that the pen has a tail like a thin Shrimp.  These are called similies.  I enjoyed reading some of the poems and I look forward to reading many others from this book.

Pebbles

Pebbles belong to no one

Until you pick them up—

Then they are yours.

But which , of all the world’s

Mountains of little broken stones,

Will you choose to keep?

The smooth black, the white,

The rough gray with sparks

Shining in its cracks?

Somewhere the best pebble must

Lie hidden, meant for you

If you can find it

By: Valerie Worth

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