CasAnanda Publishing

Fred wrote me by email and asked me how to get his book mentioned on my site. I told him to send me a copy and I would review it, which he did, less than a third the poems are about invertebrates but then most people prefer birds and mammals anyway. All the poetry is rhyming couplets mostly in non-rhyming pairs, this is OK I am not a fan of free style poetry and think rhyme and rythmn make a poem pleasant to read. However to be honest I was not impressed. Some of Freds rhymes are pretty aweful and I suspect there are many children out there writing better poetry than this. I found many of them forced, written without emotion or spirit and with a disjointed ideological flow. Udoubtably there are many people in the world who will be amused by these poems but I cannot find it in my heart to recommend them. I have included below two of the shorter poems to give you some idea of what you are going to get if you buy the book.