Collects poems celebrating mystery, animals, childhood, people, scenes, war, and love by such poets as Shel Silverstein, Maya Angelou, Ogden Nash, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, A.A. Milne, and Rudyard Kipling.
"City Lights" and “Some People" from poems by Rachel Field. ... Reprinted by permission of McGraw-HillBook Company. McIntoshandotis, Inc., for “Rhinos Purple. Hippos Green" from BREAKFast, Books & DREAMs by Michael Patrick Hearn.
Contains a collection of poems directed towards children which include, Summer sun, The swan, Three little trees, and more.
To coincide with the centenary of Oxford Children's Books we are proud to present this definitive new collection.
Instead of presenting more of the same literal, singsong poems for children, the editors mine the works of the last century to provide readers with a thematically arranged book of verse that they will be able to read and understand now, but ...
A wonderful collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK. Roger McGough made the final selection and wrote the introduction.
This book of narrative poems for children includes short poems and funny poems, famous poems and new poems, and is full of beautiful illustrations.
A celebratory anthology of works from Poetry magazine includes pieces by Adrienne Rich, Charles Bukowski, Isaac Rosenberg and many more.
The nation's most celebrated literary critic introduces children to the exciting world of literature through this collection of great stories by Hans Christian Andersen, William Blake, O. Henry, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and others. ...
The world of children's poetry is as diverse and as miraculous as the human imagination itself, a land where owls and pussy-cats set to sea in beautiful pea-green boats, and...
B. J. Novak (bestselling author of The Book With No Pictures) described this groundbreaking poetry collection as "Smart and sweet, wild and wicked, brilliantly funny--it's everything a book for kids should be.