The HedgeHog and Other Selected Poems

Over the last few years, I, the author of this work, have published several books of poetry written for a general audience. In reviewing those previous books, I realized many of my poems are ones I would have enjoyed finding when I was ten or so. "The Hedgehog" is a collection of those poems just right for reading by a younger audience - children ten years and older. This book contains silly poems such as "What Does A Spider Mean Within My Dream?" and "The Cat and the Day of the Special Fog" and more serious poems like "The Little Girl with Dyslexia" and "White Snow Like Fur Covers a Tree in Yosemite." Some might think that reading poetry is too challenging. But good poems provide clues to their meaning and incentives to read one line and then the next and then the next... And when you have reached the last line they provide a reward - which may be laughter, or wisdom, or a story, or a better understanding of yourself, and sometimes all of the above. The poems in this book are good poems - and I think children will have fun reading them!