Before I Sleep: Poems for Children Who Think

Here is a collection of poems that are successors to Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses." Each poem is about experiences at home, at school, or at play. Each invites children to develop a poetic awareness of themselves, of others, and of their place in the world.

Samuel Barondes began publishing silly poems as an undergraduate at Columbia College where he was poetry editor of "Jester," its humor magazine. He presently is a Professor at The University of California, San Francisco where he does brain research and teaches psychiatry.But he can't stop writing those silly poems. Mark Wooding is an illustrator and videographer who creates online classes at The University of California, San Francisco. This is his first published work.