Illustrated by Joan Rankin
Where as Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow stays fairly close to the facts, this books takes some liberties with nature in order to produce more humorous poetry. Personally, I prefer the more factual poetry of the other book, but thought that this book would be good to use along side it in order to give students a different take on nature poetry.
The same goes for the illustrations in this book. Many of the paintings are very realistic looking, but then there are others that have badgers writing letters, and squirrels getting pedicures. I just don't appreciate them as much as illustrations that have character and still stick to the facts.
I would never use this book by itself in the classroom, but it is a good companion book to Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow.
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