Product Description

This is a reflective and beautifully put-together anthology of poems to stimulate the emotions, whether evoking the comforting silence of true friendship, the thrill of sea tempests in the night, the power of hunger, or the joy of the first stirrings of love. Divided into seven themed sections (mystery, animals, childhood, people, scene, war, and love), it includes many classics by authors such as Walter de la Mare, G.K. Chesterton, Dylan Thomas, Ogden Nash, Michael Rosen, Eleanor Farjeon, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, E.E. Cummings, Roger McGough, and Philip Larkin.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70654 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark: A Poem for Everyone, A Year Full of Poems, The Dragon Book of Verse, The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems, The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems, The Oxford Book of Story Poems, The Oxford Treasury of World Stories, The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems, The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems, The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems

Michael Harrison: Short!-A Book of Very Short Poems, Carried Away, Facing the Dark, At the Deep End

Customer Reviews

The topics of children's lives are explored through poetry
Covering the "simple" topics of childhood, like love, animals, people, and war, this anthology offers a wide range of poems from the last century, either purposefully written for children or poems children ended up appreciating and enjoying. It also includes a very useful index of titles and first lines, an author index, and an illustrator index.

This is a book older readers may find more engaging because the font is smaller and there are few illustrations, but it contains a wealth of poems young readers would enjoy. It seems like the kind of book that warrants reading aloud to the younger readers.