The Dirigible Balloon
Poetry for Children

Walden Revisited

Haiku
Ripples of skipped stones
The squelch of mud underfoot
Mystical boyhood

About the Writer


Jacinta Patterson

Jacinta is a wife, mother, teacher, lifelong learner, and picture book writer. The eldest of six children, she grew up in a loud, loving home in south Jersey. She now lives in Massachusetts in the land of Little Women and Walden Pond. First-generation Egyptian-American on one side and Philadelphia Irish-Catholic on the other, she believes in the beauty of the melting pot.