Mary Ann Hoberman, whose dozens of rhyme-filled books for children sought to encourage them to read, to read aloud, and to commit poems to memory, died on July 7 at home in Greenwich, CT. She was 92.

In a 2008 interview with the Poetry Foundation, she said that moments from her childhood were reflected in her books. “I started writing when I had children of my own,” she said, “but I wasn’t really observing them so much as remembering what it was to be a child myself.”