Open the Gates

Dabney Stuart's love for the animals that inhabit the earth pulses through this new collection of poems for the young and the young at heart. From rhinoceros to remora, iguana to impala, whale to water buffalo, & chameleon to crocodile-the dozens of animals in Stuart's poems come alive in a spirit of playfulness. Coupled with Susan Elliott's spirited watercolors, the poems magnify the wonders of being young. His poems show the beauty and enchantment of friendship: the koala and the kiwi, the eel and the clam, the fiddler crab and his companions, and the dove cooing to an empty sky, hoping another hears.