by Amy Hildreth Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Research Assistant to Kevin Young
What Watches Me? A Writing and Drawing Book For You
by Lucille Clifton (1968)
What "early in the morning/it shines its glassy eye"?
The Window.
What "sees me wander/ in and out/ and never stops to cry"?
The Door.
These riddles and more can be found in Lucille Clifton's first children's book, What Watches Me? A Writing and Drawing Book for You (1968). The cardboard, spiral bound book invites young readers not only to respond to Clifton's riddles, but also to draw their answers on the provided blank pages.
