John Ciardi's collection of children's poetry is delightful and beautiful. A lot of the poems are about mystical beasts, such as the Saginsack which has radio horns. The lines in the poems are short and are a combination of rhyming and free verse. Ciardi's poems have a great rhythm to them that pleads for them to be read aloud. His language is very beautiful and full of similes and metaphors. The imagery is very strong and the illustrations beside the poems helps the reader visual the poem. Some of the poems are funny and others convey the beauty of the world. None of the subjects of the poems feel dreary or have a moral. The collection is small and not intimidating to readers who are not enthusiastic about poetry. Recommended. ( )