One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children

One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
ISBN-10
0192763504
ISBN-13
9780192763501
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2007-01
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark

Description

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.

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