The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Crusts

I eat plum skins
I don’t eat orange skins
I eat pear skins
I don’t eat banana skins
I eat apple skins
(both green AND red skins)
I eat carrot skins

I don’t eat bread skins.

About the Writer


Annelies Judson

Annelies Judson is a children's author and poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. She loves cooking, cricket and her kids (not in that order). She also has alopecia, but that is neither hair nor there. Her debut picture book, Turkey Hurly-Burly, was released by Scholastic (NZ) in 2025. You can find her at anneliesjudson.wordpress.com