Wendy Mass is the author of thirty novels for young people, including A Mango-Shaped Space, which was awarded the Schneider Family Book Award, Leap Day, the Twice Upon a Time fairy tale series, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, the Willow Falls, Space Taxi and Candymakers series. Wendy wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre," which aired during the show's second season. She tells people her hobbies are hiking and photography, but really they're collecting candy bar wrappers and searching for buried treasure with her metal detector. Wendy lives with her family in New Jersey.
* * * Read and Reviewed by Me & My Niece Emma * * *
Mostly Spring-based couplet-sized morsels.
Included stuff by William Wordsworth, Carl Sandberg, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Emma was impressed by the length of her name), Sara Coleridge and that prolific writer, Anonymous. Trying to explain the meaning of anonymous to a 5-year-old isn't easy.
Not a lot of what I would call songs here...or even prayers now that I think about it. These just all kinda seemed like poems, not all of which were very good or memorable.
"It was okay," said Emma. She seemed to appreciate about half of these. The ones with the strongest rhymes went over biggest.
Probably the best part of this was the raindrop cutouts that move about in the clear window on the cover. We spent about as much time playing with that as reading the book.