Favourite Poems 101 Children S Classics

Silly, fantastical, romantic, thought-provoking... This new collection includes 101 classic poems that every child should read! Find Tennyson, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare and many more. The poems are organized by theme, and lively introductions provide information on the poets and their craft. Includes an index and glossary of poetic form.

101 classic poems that every child should read, from Tennyson, Keats, Wordsworth, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare and many more!

Carol Ann Duffy, the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate, has chosen her favourite poems for children in this illustrated collection of classic and modern verse.

The classics are classics for a reason - no one has written better-loved poems in the years since they were first published. So here is a vintage selection of the best of the very best poems from the greatest writers in history, especially for young readers. Shakespeare, Scott, Stevenson, Lear, Carroll, Rossetti, Tennyson, Longfellow - they've all written poetic wonders to entrance young minds. These poems are happy, entrancing, musical, thrilling, weird, wonderful and even scary. There are poems about nature, animals, adventure, voyages, the seaside, monsters, Christmas and, of course, there are plenty to read when it's time for bed. You'll probably remember a few of these from your own younger days, but there are also many lovely verses that will be new discoveries. Which will be your favourite? Which will be your child's? Why don't you read them together and find out...

A beautiful poetry collection chosen by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

101 Poems for Children: A Laureate's Choice is a stunning collection of classic and modern verse chosen by the 2009-2019 Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Full of gorgeous black and white artwork from the multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett, this book is a delight for children of all ages and is a pleasure to read aloud for everyone in the family to enjoy. This fantastic collection is the perfect introduction to poetry for children, featuring a range of poems both new and familiar and packed with delights to return to again and again. Classic poems such as 'The Owl and the Pussycat' by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' feature alongside contemporary verse, such as Edwin Morgan's 'The Loch Ness Monster's Song' and 'Balloons' by Sylvia Plath. With a gorgeous cloth-bound cover, this beautiful hardback edition is published to celebrate the end of Duffy's Laureateship and is the perfect gift for any young poetry lover, or any child yet to discover its delights.

This illustrated compilation of children's poetry includes examples from William Blake to Sir Walter Scott with a common thread of classicism running through all of the works that have been chosen.

A collection of familiar poems for and about children, by such authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Eugene Field, and Sarah Josepha Hale.