A Visit to William Blake's Inn, by Nancy Willard (our review)

This is the book that we got for Calvin for his birthday. It wasn't something we stumbled upon, but pretty much a sure fire hit; not only is this a favorite from Jon's childhood, but we already know that Calvin has a special fondness for poetry, which he and I read together many days after lunch. So we went shopping for this book and a copy of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience on Better World Books and these were our gift to our son for his fourth birthday. They were a big hit, and I'm sure we'll talk again some day about Blake's book, but today here's Calvin's review on A Visit to William Blake's Inn, by Nancy Willard:

[In summary] it's kind of a story about animals and a boy but it's also poems. It has animals in it. It has gentle artwork pictures.

[I like the book] because I like the animals in the story and I like it because it's poems.

[My favorite part is] the King of Cats because I like the cat that's in the poem because he eats lobster and he gets full...bigger...like the moon.

Would he recommend this book to others? A resounding yes.