It’s the end of baseball and the beginning of cool crisp nights, marked by the months Octobrrrrr, Novembrrrrr, and Decemberrrrr. Leaves fall, pumpkins grin, geese fly in a v-formation. It must be that season with two names: fall and autumn. Appropriately earth-toned watercolor and colored pencil illustrations are accompanied by 48 short poems that use Douglas Florian’s characteristic punning and concrete forms. A companion to Winter Eyes and Summersaults , Autumnblings leaves us looking forward to Florian’s spring poems. (Ages 4–8)

What do you like
about autumn?

Flying kites?
Apple picking?
Trick or treat?
Frisbee flicking?

What do you not like
about autumn?

Back to school?
Winds that gust?
Bare trees?
Rains that rust?

This collection of poems and paintings welcomes fall with all the crisp energy of a joyful tumbling run. A companion volume to the highly praised Winter Eyes and Summersaults, Autumnblings proves once again that Douglas Florian is a poet for all seasons.