by J. Patrick Lewis, Kyle M. Stone
After seeing some of the lovely illustrations from this book on Olga Godim's post, I had to see if my library had this. The title alone ensured I had to read this. As a poetry book, it's a lovely picture book. Seriously, most of these pictures are quite lovely, though some remind me of the ugly ...
This is not a story but a collection of book and reading themed poems paired with illustrations. As a whole it did not do much for me -- especially the art -- but there were a couple lines I quite liked:Libraries are necessary gardensA bad book owes to many trees/A forest of apologies.
Poetry about the library, books and reading! This is quite a lovely little book of poetry. The poems are fun and really describe how wonderful the library, books and reading are.