Amelia Mixed the Mustard and Other Poems

by Evaline Ness (Editor)

Women and girls of all types and dispositions are the heroines of twenty children's poems and limericks

48 pages, Library Binding

First published April 1, 1975

About the author

Evaline Ness was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. As illustrator of picture books she was one of three Caldecott Medal runners-up each year 1964 to 1966 and she won the 1967 Medal for Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine, which she also wrote. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own. She is noted for using a great variety of artistic media and methods.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chosen for the illustrator, but it turns out I enjoyed the poems even more. 'About the authors' says, "all reflect the poets' understanding and appreciation for the individuality of women." Four decades later it's still not common enough to see girls and women as people in books, but as types, and so this book is still valuable.

And it's fun, and charming, and appealing, too. Ages five to 105.

I particularly recommend The Quiet Child by Rachel Field to several of you, my friends... ;)

Also included are works by:
Nikki Giovanni
Gertrude Stein
Eleanor Farjeon
Ogden Nash
etc.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a delightful collection of poetry about girls by such luminaries as Nikki Giovanni, Hillaire Belloc, A.E. Houseman, and Ogden Nash.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although some of the poems contained in this book are quite humorous, all in all this book is not one I would recommend to students. It is quite dated and there are a number of questionable lines that I would rather not be explaining to parents. However I could see teaching If No one Every Marries Me or a few others as a single poem.