Poems for Children

Who expresses everything without a tongue?
They say to me: that book,
With its best plays
And favorite conversation. (Rainis)
Autumn in Latvia comes with gifts – an apple harvest, baskets of mushrooms, and poetry books, as Poetry Days are celebrated every year in... September. For the little readers, this year the Autumn gnome has prepared a special gift – a large, beautiful, colorful book of Rainis' poems. Artist Agija Staka's wonderful illustrations encourage turning page after page to see how the pea children are huddled in their pods, what patchwork coat the Great Sloth has on his back, and what tools are in the woodpecker's backpack.