Places and Names: A Traveler's Guide
So many places have fabulous names,
Like Fried, North Dakota,
The Court of St. James,
Siberia, Nigeria, Elyria, Peru
The White Nile, Black Sea,
And Kalamazoo!
The Great Wall of China, South Pole and Loch Ness,
And 104 Fairview—that's my address!
Thousands of spaces are places to be—
Discover the World of GE-OG-RA-PHY!
Travel by boat or by car or by plane
To visit East Africa, Singapore, Spain.
Go by yourself or invite a good friend,
But traveling by poem is what I recommend.
Copyright Credit: “Places and Names: A Traveler’s Guide” from A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme by J. Patrick Lewis, illustrated by Alison Jay, text copyright 2002 by J. Patrick Lewis. Used by permission of Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Source: A World of Wonders (The Dial Press, 2002)