These fifty-five original poems for beginning readers celebrate the wonders of a Southern childhood: magnolia trees, ice cream, peanuts, porches, and more. Delightful illustrations brighten the pages.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 years.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Pelican Publishing Co .

David Davis has written several children's picture books and has had titles named in Children's Choice Top 100 list. An active presenter at schools, conferences and libraries, David lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Learn more about him at www. davidrdavis. com. Ben Galbraith is an author and illustrator, he lives in New Zealand. Find out more at www. bengalbraith. co. nz. JAN PECK is a full-time writer and a former freelance editor for Boys' Life magazine. Her writing has appeared in Humpty Dumpty, Highlights for Children, and Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul. She is an active member of the Texas chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Herb Leonhard received a BFA in illustration from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. His award-winning work has appeared in D Magazine, among other publications. He is the illustrator of several other Pelican books, including St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice, Way Out West on My Little Pony, A Southern Child's Garden of Verses, Leonardo's Monster, I Know a Librarian Who Chewed on a Word, A Is for Alliguitar: Musical Alphabeasts, and Southern Mother Goose. Leonhard lives in Prosser, Washington.