Karla Kuskin

Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.

After being told how she resembles other members of her family, a young girl states positively and absolutely that she is "NO ONE ELSE BUT ME."

After a boy's mother buys him a hat, she buys him a mouse, shoes, boots, skis, mask, cello, and an elephant--none of which he is ever without.

A collection of poems about discovering the world.

A child describes the many layers of clothing needed to stay warm in the winter.

Looks at the traces left behind by a turtle on the sand, a jet in the sky, and even a long-gone dinosaur in loose soil.