Blue Bowl Down: An Appalachian Rhyme by C. M. Millen

Millen, C.M. Blue Bowl Down: An Appalachian Rhyme. Candlewick. 2004.

Blue Bowl Down is a poetry book that gives children a tale to follow about something that practically everyone can relate to, watching mother cook. In this case, the mother in the book is making bread for the next morning, and her young child watches as she goes back and forth the night before, and they both later rise (as so does the bread dough) in time for breakfast to a brand new loaf of bread.

Both parent and child will enjoy this book for its universal theme of connection between mother and child in the kitchen.

Here's A Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry by Jane Yolen,Andrew Fusek Peters,Polly Dunbar

Yolen, Jane. Here's A Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry. Cambridge, MA. Candlewick Press. 2007.

Jane Yolen’s Here's a Little Poemt book is a perfect example of the type of book that children love to listen to during the period when they are most interested in learning the meaning of words. The simplicity of the words in this book captures the mind and thoughts of a young child and are expressed through most talented writers such as Langston Hughes and Margaret Wise Brown.

Not only are the poems wonderful to share with a young child, but their imagination is stirred with the illustrations. The soft-colored drawings are just one more plus in aiding a child to love poetry at it's finest at such a tender age. With over sixty poems written by talented poets, Yolen has taken the best from the best and presented it as a gift to the youth of today.