If You are a fan of Robert Service, Longfellow or Poe, or just like meaningful poems that rhyme and tell a story complete with beginning, middle and end, you will immediately fall in love with the poems in this book as well as the larger illustrated version "Man Of Asgard.".

And if you like your stories to end with a slight unexpected twist, you will love the book even more, For this seems to be the formula that Carpenter brings to most of his new millennium poetry. There are long poems, short poems and even a special section at the end filled with nursery rhymes for the very young. In fact there are poems here for all ages, many of which seem to be told from the perspective of a child.

But don't think that these are poems with no depth. Practically every story in this book has deep subtle shades of hidden meaning and contains a moral. And there is plenty of humor to go around also.

This sample of one of the shortest poems in the book may give you a glimpse into the mind of Londis Carpenter:

Rusty the rattlesnake lived in a log
Down by the river with Gary the frog.
Rusty and Gary both liked to play
In the shade of the reeds and the ooze of the clay.
When Gary grew hungry he ate bugs on his log.
But Rusty the rattler ate gary the frog."

Do yourself and your family a big favor and get your copy of this great book.