Variety of Verse for the Very Young

Sam was the model for the English teacher portrayed in the movie "The Dead Poet Society". Sam is the author of several books, some scholarly, some a collection of charming essays, such as "The Right Distance," "May Day," "Still Life," & "Let it Ride." "It is really good. It has a wonderful lyric sense & the poems are full of right color. Like 'Secret Place', the poems are green & quiet. They make one imagine the world & change sight. One looks out & then turns inward to dream, carried along in part by the music of the verse. In truth, the poems are not just for the young; they are for me & thee, all of us who have a furrow across our brows."--Sam Pickering, Jr. "It was with growing delight that I read the little book A VARIETY OF VERSE FOR THE VERY YOUNG, by Chloe Frierson Fort. The poems in this gentle book seemed to take me back to my childhood when my mother would read to me from Robert Louis Stevenson's A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES & other special books. I feel that this beautiful book would appeal to the children of today & to their sense of wonder at the magic & beauty of the world around them, & I warmly recommend it."--Carroll Miller, Branch Librarian.Fort, Chloe F. is the author of 'Variety of Verse for the Very Young', published 1990 under ISBN 9780962634307 and ISBN 0962634301.