A Big… Misunderstanding? by Suzy Levinson

Jun 27, 2025

The monster is swaying.
The monster is baying.
The monster is staying to prey upon me.

The storm clouds are clearing.
The sun is appearing.
The monster is leering – oh wait, that’s a tree.

 

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Suzy Levinson is a children’s author and poet whose work has been featured in magazines, including Highlights and Cricket, and anthologies, including I Am a Jigsaw: Puzzling Poems to Baffle your Brain (Bloomsbury) and Shaping the World: 40 Historical Heroes in Verse (Macmillan). Her debut PB-length poetry collection, Animals in Pants (Abrams), was published in 2023. Her next, Dinos that Drive (Tundra Books), will hit shelves in September 2025… and she’s got more on the way! She lives in New York.