cover image Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People

Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People

Jane Yolen. Boyds Mills Press, $15.95 (40pp) ISBN 978-1-56397-886-9

Mother-daughter team Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple use an inventive (and humorous) format in Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People, illus. by Gil Ashby. Daughter addresses mother in a poem on the left, and mother addresses daughter on the right, debating issues such as homework, weight, sports and romantic crushes. (Mar.)