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Fall has slowly been creeping up on us here in the Valley, and oh, it is so beautiful! I love fall, as I think I've made pretty clear in this space. One thing I love about the days getting shorter and colder is the extra time spent indoors to bake, craft, and read. I found this amazing collection of seasonal poems for children in a free bin of books at a local thrift store. The Year Around: Poems for Children, by Alice Isabel Hazeltine - what a treasure! It is an old hardcover library copy printed in 1956 and though I can't say that I love all the poems in the book, many are quite fun to read aloud with Riggs.
Probably the best thing about finding this book is finding a poem in it that I loved when I was in about 4th or 5th grade, Something Told the Wild Geese. We sang an adaptation of it in an elementary school choir, and I have found myself humming it nearly every year when I would see the large formations of geese starting to fly south. I sang it to Riggs a few times today, and it put it him right to sleep.
