If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries Poems for Children and Their Parents

Forty-onepoemsthatlookatordinarythingsinunusualways."Viorsttakeseverydaysituationsthatfrustrate,bewilder,orbemuseandturnsthemintofodderforheraudience'spersonallaughtracks....(She)succeedsinbringingoutthefuninhumanfoiblesandherpoemsthattwisttraditionalfairy-taleendingsarepositivelyinspired."--"Booklist."