Summer: An Alphabet Acrostic

Sandy beaches, juicy watermelons, and porch swings are just a few of the warm-weather delights featured in this inventive alphabet of acrostic poems about summer. Like the previous seasonal collaborations from Steven Schnur and Leslie Evans, Autumn and Spring, this book contains twenty-six poems, alphabetically arranged. Each reveals a playful acrostic when read vertically, and each is accompanied by a glowing woodcut illustration.

Parenting - Leonard Marcus

The last days of winter are a good time to dream of summer's picnics, band concerts and other simmple, school-free pleasures. Keyed to the alphabet, these 26 acrostic poems and the stylized linoleum block cuts that accompany them whet our appetite for the warmest months.

Leslie Evans has illustrated several books and also makes prints and broadsides in her letterpress studio in Massachusetts, where she lives.