Description: This inspirational book of over 100 poems is designed to introduce readers of all ages to poetry. It is the starting point on a very special journey to a whole spectrum of thoughts and feelings, magical lands and faraway places. The collection features works by some of the world's most well-known writers and poets, including Edgar Allen Poe, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. With songs and chants such as Waltzing Matilda, or It's Raining, It's Pouring; evocative poems such as Spring by William Blake and When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy by William Shakespeare, children's favourites like Wynken, Blynken and Nod, and lullabies such as Hush Little Baby.
- Beautifully presented, this book features classic poems suitable for children, by many of the world's much-loved writers and poets, such as Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy - Split into thematic chapters, there are poems of animals and birds, songs of the sea, love and adventure, boys and girls, happiness and sadness, childhood and travel - some hundreds of years old and others refreshingly modern - Gold embellishments decorate the cover and every page - Includes favourites such as The Owl and the Pussy Cat, The North Wind Doth Blow, How Doth the Little Crocodile, and Star Light, Star BrightBrief description:
Nicola Baxter has written or compiled over three hundred children's titles. She particularly enjoys the marriage of words and pictures that children's books entail.