Summary from book jacket:

"Poets are sometimes forgetful. They write poems and if these verses are ahead of their time or quite unlike their other poetry, they put them aside for another day....Something like this seems to have happened with Carl Sandburg's collection Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote." --From the introduction

These poems, recently discovered by Sandburg scholars George and Willene Hendrick, invite us to see objects as familiar as chairs, clocks, and pencils--or our very own eyes, ears, and nose--in an arresting and fresh new way. In this collection, Sandburg has fun teasing the imagination and making us smile, while Istvan Banyai plays a jazzy accompaniment in pen and ink (with a little help from the computer). For children ages eight to eighty, here is an intriguing little volume as bright and beckoning as the twenty-first century!

I think that the point of publishing this book was to cash-in on a dead man's name.
Disgraceful!

Enjoy!

Thank you!

I wanted to come back in and tell you I just realized this poet is on my daughter's curriculum list for this year and we needed this book! What a blessing that you sent it! Thanks again!

Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote, are poems that Carl Sandburg wrote before he died, and he never really published them, so when the sandburg scholars found his writings they published tehm and Istvan Banyai drew the pictuers. The poems in this book are funny, interesting, and some are just plain weird. The drawings are..interesting. I loved this book, and if you want to tell your child a bedtime short poem you can pick from this book! From eyes, to the sky you can read these amazingly interesting poems :D I had to read this for school.

I read "Poems for children" for school, and I liked it it was really funny and it was random but I like them!