In the metaphorical Wonder House, each “room” is dedicated to a different theme or topic: curiosity, praise, ordinary things, creatures, nature, science, time, place, quiet, imagination, mystery, and wishes. Two to four poems explore each theme in ways that are both complementary and contrasting. In the Room of Nature, Heard writes, “Thunder drums the skin of sky / striking / an / electric / scar / from cloud to cloud.” Dotlich describes rain in the forest, where “my feet balance on a tangle / of puzzled roots in a wilderness of secrets” and “raindrops speak small lullabies …” In the Room of Science, an entomologist “studies whirligig beetles twirling / like tiny bumper cars that never touch” (Heard) while Dotlich’s haiku preserves the “scribbles of old gold” inside a crystal. The artful yet exacting imagery across the poems, paired with the imaginative possibilities the volume can inspire, is itself a wonder. A brief note encourages readers and listeners to value the role of wonder and their own power as wonderers in this fresh, lovely volume featuring illustrations that combine delicate renderings of concrete images with beautiful washes of color that shift from one “room” (page spread) to the next. (Ages 7-10)