Review of the Day – Trees: Haiku from Roots to Leaves by Sally M. Walker, ill. Angela McKay

Trees: Haiku from Roots to Leaves
By Sally M. Walker
Illustrated by Angela Mckay
Candlewick Press
$19.99
ISBN: 978-1-5362-1550-2
On shelves now.

Do you know, do you honestly have any idea, how difficult it is to find brand new high-quality children’s poetry in a given year? There’s a reason we praise folks like Shel Silverstein over and over and over again. Simple children’s poems, charming as they may be, are almost excruciatingly difficult to write. Why this is, I cannot say. What I do know is ...