Title: If You Could Wear My Sneakers!
Author: Sheree Fitch
Illustrator: Darcia Labrosse
Publisher: Doubleday Canada Ltd.
Copyright: 1997

This is a collection of poems about animals and their various activities.

Comments:

This books biggest highlight is that each poem corresponds to one of the rights of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. At the end of the book, there is information about which poems correspond to which articles of the Rights of the Child. Throughout all the poems the language is easy to understand and marvelously written, making excellent use of alliteration, onomatopoeia, and playful language. The poems are also a fantastic vocabulary builder. The books illustrations are done well, with the animals painted comically. Due care has been given to detail in the illustrations, with the use of lines to add detail and different colors to create contrast between the foreground and background.

Genre: P (Poetry)
Age Range: 5 and Up