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This review first ran on 10/4/09. A story time staple when I worked at the bookstore, The Seven Silly Eaters is one of my top 5 picture books of all time. Hoberman's rhyming text is perfectly pitched and brilliantly paired with Frazee's illustrations. A must have, and it's available in paperback! As I was writing my review of Mary Ann Hoberman's debut novel for young adults, Strawberry Hill,

Whenever Whenever I want my room to move I give myself a twirl And busily, dizzily whiz about In a reeling, wheeling whirl. Then I spin in a circle as fast as I can Till my head is weak from churning Like a tipsy top... And then I stop. But my room goes right on turning. -Mary Ann Hoberman

PRAYING MANTIS That praying mantis over there Is really not engaged in prayer. That praying mantis that you see Is really preying (with an e). It preys upon the garter snake. It preys upon the bumble bee. It preys upon the cabbage worm, The wasp, the fly, the moth, the flea. (And even sometimes, if its need is great, It even preys upon its mate.) With prey and preying both so endless It tends

The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems by former Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman is a perfect example of quality and quantity - all for the low, low price of $8.00! If you are only going to buy one book of poetry for your children, this is it! Hoberman has an obvious, genuine love of words. As Michael Atkinson says so succinctly of this book in his essay celebrating her

As first ever National Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky may seem like a hard act to follow. But, Mary Ann Hoberman has a wealth of poems and poetic picture books on her literary resume, as well as her first young adult novel, which I read and and adored, Strawberry Hill. And, in 2010 Hoberman, along with Linda Winston, selected (and contributed to) poems to The Tree of Life: A

The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science and Imagination selected by Mary Ann Hoberman, the current National Children's Poet Laureate and Linda Winston, a cultural anthropologist and teacher, has re-opened a door for me that I thought I had shut firmly. I was a child of the perfect age when Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends was first published in 1974. I still

After reading Mary Ann Hoberman's picture books and now her first young adult novel, Strawberry Hill, I wish she was my grandmother. Even better, I wish she was my kids' grandmother. If you don't already feel this way about her after reading her many picture and poetry books , including on of my all-time favorites,Seven Silly Eaters, and knowing that she is the current Children's Poet Laureate,

As I was writing my review of Mary Ann Hoberman's debut novel for young adults, Strawberry Hill, I just had to mention Seven Silly Eaters, a long time favorite of mine and my children. Rather than stick this mention in at the end of the review of the novel, I decided to honor it with one of it's own and call attention, again, a brilliant poet and essential contributor to the world of children's