All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Lecturer In French Valerie Worth

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Lecturer In French Valerie Worth

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More gathers all four of Valerie Worth's small poetry children's books and includes the original illustrations by Natalie Babbitt, the award-winning writer/artist of Tuck Everlasting.

Inspired by her love of nature, Valerie Worth's wondrous verse about animals, plants, and other everyday objects presents a perfect perspective of the world through a child's eyes.

This volume includes Small Poems, More Small Poems, Still More Small Poems, and Small Poems Again.

Valerie Worth (1933-1994) was a celebrated poet who was born in Philadelphia and raised in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College. After that, the family relocated to Tampa, Florida, then Bangalore, India, where they spent a year. Valerie returned to Swarthmore for college, earning a bachelor's degree in English with honors. She married George Bahlke, a Swarthmore graduate, not long after. Valerie met Natalie Babbitt at Kirkland College after living in Clinton, NY, and Natalie began illustrating Valerie's work, beginning with Little Poems in 1972.

Further Little Poems (1976), Yet More Small Poems (1978), and Small Poems Again (1986) were the next three volumes. All the Little Poems was published in 1987 as a single paperback, then seven years later, All the Tiny Poems and Fourteen More was published, followed by a paperback edition in 1996. Valerie Worth's Peacock and Other Poems, with illustrations by Natalie Babbitt, was published posthumously by FSG in 2002, and it is a collection of 27 poems that Publishers Weekly claimed heralds the joy of words in a starred review. In a starred review, School Library Journal stated, [Valerie Worth's] work provides pupils something to appreciate and strive for.

Valerie Worth was awarded the Poetry Prize for Excellence in Poetry for Children by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in 1991, which recognizes a body of work.