I am not sure if the author, James Stevenson, wrote the poems, or were the poems written by children. The collections of poems seem like they were written by children. The subject of a third of the poems was fictional monsters and ghost such as a, "Pobbles." Probbles are mean human like monsters. If he wrote all these poems, Stevenson has a genuine talent for non-sense and humor.

The good, I laughed and read out loud some of the poems to adults! The entire collection of poems is strangly-silly entertainment. The use of continuous personification is humorous," The trees where engaged in a football game..."

The bad, the book has no color. Children will not be visually stimulated by the book. I would just read the poems, and not show the illustrations. The book binder( the copy I have is not well made; it fell apart.)

The ugly, some humor is wicked. The poem, A Letter From Camp. A boy writes a letter to his parents from camp. He wrote
I have the runs, a hornet stung me on my forehead,by bunk mate wets his bed, and it ends with,"P.S I almost drowned."

Conclusion: This collection of poems is to be read with caution.

Classroom Extensions
1. Have the students draw pictures to a poem they read
2. The teacher can assign the students to read a collection of poems and the students will write the literary elements/theme of poems ( )