My Head Is Full of Books: GOLDFINCHES by Mary Oliver and Melissa Sweet

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Thursday, July 9, 2026

GOLDFINCHES by Mary Oliver and Melissa Sweet

*I am going to a very important T-Ball game tonight and don't have the time to get a full book review up and ready for the Friday56 LinkUp before we leave so I'm breaking with my usual combo review/link. Instead here is a quick look at a new favorite children's book, Goldfinches by Mary Oliver and Melissa Sweet.

Mary Oliver, a favorite poet, is known for her poems about nature. In this poem she focuses on the small goldfinches which arrive en masse in her area when the thistle down is ready for use by the birds in midsummer.

Melissa Stewart is a celebrated illustrator and author of children's books. She wrote and illustrated another favorite of mine, The Story of E.B. White.

"Goldfinches" the poem was originally published in Poetry magazine in 1992 and in a volume of White Pines by Oliver in 1994.