At last, this favorite first introduction to poetry is available in a beautifully designed paperback. Introduce young children to poetry and help them make the leap from nursery rhymes to other kinds of verse--ballads, poems of mystery, delicate tales of fairies, songs of the sea--with a jingle or limerick mixed in here and there, and always an element of surprise.
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Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread literary award. He was also elected
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