"Hard to be six / when your sister is ten. / There are things she can do that / must wait until then: when i am / seven or eight, nine or ten. / Hard to be six until then..." Adoff's poems about the ups and downs of a typical six-year-old who can't wait to grow up are marvelously illustrated with full-color paintings which show the six-year-old and his sister as biracial children with a white father and an African-American mother. (Ages 4-6)

A six-year-old boy who wants to grow up fast learns a lesson about patience from his grandmother.