[6] Booklist's Ilene Cooper highlighted how the book pays "tribute to well-known poets, such as Maya Angelou, e. e. cummings, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, and William Carlos Williams, among others ...

Each illustration captures not just the feeling of the poem but wakes readers up to life’s excitements and small joys.

"[4] Shelf Awareness's Emilie Coulter wrote, "Even readers who claim they don't enjoy poetry will be won over by these crystal-clear, mostly child-centric poems ...

If that weren't enough, the gorgeous cut-paper artwork by Caldecott Honor artist Ekua Holmes ... takes the already exuberant book to an even higher plane.

[4] Kirkus Reviews named it one of the best books of the year,[4] and Booklist included it on their "Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction for Youth" list.