Peacock and Other Poems Author:Valerie Worth By the author of the Small Poems books — This new collection by Valerie Worth, conceived before her death, is sure to delight readers who know her celebrated Small Poems books, and will serve as a wonderful introduction for those first encountering her enchanting free verse. Accompanied by Natalie Babbitt?s fine pencil drawings, ?Peacock? ... more »is joined by twenty-six other elegant poems by Worth about things as various as pandas and steam engines and icicles, in which, like her earlier work, she ?find[s] in ordinary things Blake?s universe in a grain of sand? (Booklist).« less