as a "collection of coy and innocuous little animal rhymes. The verses are technically conventional, with rhythm and rhyme schemes ranging from mildly pleasant to flatly predictable". Again, writing of In the Middle of the Night, in which a little girl celebrates her birthday by taking a special night time walk with her Father, Kirkus said, "The bibliotherapeutic possibilities perhaps outweigh anything that might be said about the poem as poetry". Selected works Poetry collections The Coffee-Pot Faces, McBride Company, 1933* Up the Windy Hill: A Book of Merry Verses with Silhouettes, Abelard Press, 1953 My Cat Has Eyes of Sapphire Blue, Crowell, 1973 Feathered Ones and Furry, HarperCollins, 1979* Rabbits, Rabbits, Harper & Row, 1983 Always Wondering": Some Favorite Poems of Aileen Fisher, HarperCollins, 1991 You Don’t Look Like Your Mother, Mondo, 2001 I Heard a Bluebird Singing; Cullinan, Bernice (compiler); Boyds Mills Press; 2002 Natural history All on a Mountain Day Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1956* Going Barefooted, Crowell, 1960^ Summer of Little Rain, Thomas Nelson, 1961* Where Does Everyone Go?, Crowell, 1961^ Listen, Rabbit, T. Y. Crowell, 1964^ In the Woods, In the Meadow, In the Sky, Scribner, 1962 In the Middle of the Night, Crowell, 1965^ Valley of the Smallest: The Life of the Shrew, T. Y. Crowell, 1966^>+# Feathered Ones and Furry, Harper Collins, 1979* The Story Goes On, Roaring Brook Press, 2005 Fiction A Lantern in the Window, T. Nelson, 1957 Going Barefoot, T. Y. Crowell, 1960 Secret in the Barrel, Scholastic Books, 1965 In the Middle Of The Night, T. Y. Crowell, 1965 Best Little House, T. Y. Crowell, 1966 My Mother and I, T. Y. Crowell, 1967 We Went Looking, T. Y. Crowell, 1968 Clean as a Whistle, T. Y. Crowell, 1969 Other non-fiction Timber!:Logging in Michigan, Aladdin Books, 1955 Skip, Thomas Nelson, 1958 (Scholastic paperback)^ We Dickinsons: The Life of Emily Dickinson as Seen Through the Eyes of Her Brother Austin (with Olive Rabe), Atheneum, 1965* We Alcotts: The Life of Louisa M. Alcott's Family as Seen Through the Eyes of 'Marmee', Mother of Little Women, Atheneum, 1968> Jeanne D'Arc, Crowell, 1970 My First Hanukkah Book, Children's Press, 1985 Plays Holiday Programs for Boys and Girls, Plays, Inc., 1953 Christmas Plays and Programs, Plays, Inc., 1961 Plays About our Nation's Songs, Plays, Inc., 1962 Bicentennial Plays and Programs, Plays, Inc., 1975 Up a Christmas Tree, Plays, Inc., 1978 Blue Ribbon Plays