Take Off Your Brave: The World through the Eyes of a Preschool Poet

For scared-sugar things, you put on your brave
And you can take it off again, when you realize its OK.
And thats it. Scary and sweet. Scared-sugar.

Four-year-old Nadim puts his words on paper and gives us a glimpse of how he sees the world: one filled with glitter, magical boxes, and cuddles with Mom. A place where school smells like daffodils and honey (and sometimes dirty socks), where Wednesdays are rainbow-colored, where fish in the sea make ashhhhsound, and where everyone has love, even baddies. The poems in this anthology make for joyful reading and are paired with vibrant, child-friendly artwork by Yasmeen Ismail that invites us to full-heartedly enter Nadims world. At once funny and sweet, gentle and zany, this anthology may just entice readers young and old to release the poet within.