From: Christine Hill <chill>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:23:10 -0400

I second Deborah Taylor's choices. Anyone who does preschool story time knows how hard it is to find valentine's day stories for 3-4 year olds. Ever since Honey I Love came out as a picture book, I have used it every year. Think this poem is not for preschoolers? Think again. The rhythm pulls them in and hypnotizes them. I also love Harriet Tubman. A school librarian in our district does a poetry fest every year with each class assigned a choral reading. For two years in a row, I have burst out crying when I heard them recite the line "Nineteen times she went back South/to get three hundred others." Christine M. Hill Willingboro Public Library One Salem Road Willingboro, NJ 08046 My new book! Robert Ballard: Oceanographer Who Discovered the Titanic, Enslow, 1999
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