Written when Nathalia Crane was about ten, these poems treat flathouse roofs, vacant lots, John Paul Jones and a red-haired janitor’s boy with startling vocabulary and an odd, grown-up wit. A foreword by William Rose Benét explains why a sceptic of child prodigies thought some of them proved something more.
A literary curiosity of the 1920s that still charms, for anyone interested in children’s imagination or American verse. Download the free EPUB.