This beautifully illustrated collection will introduce
children to a lifetime of pleasure in poetry. Carefully
selected, the poems open up an enchanting world of
rhythm and language, feeling and fantasy.
The collection features a wide range of well-known
writers including Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, William
Shakespeare, Lord Byron, William Blake and John
Keats. It includes many beautiful poems such as
Robin Hood, Waltzing Matilda, Jemima, A Thing of Beauty, A Lark's Nest, Symphony in Yellow, and Spring and Fall.
Gathering together classic poems on all manner of
wonderous and fascinating themes that children will
thrill to explore, the colourful and imaginative
illustrations on every page capture the magic of
imaginary worlds loved and enjoyed by generations of
girls and boys.The volume includes an 'About the Poets' section with
a brief biography for each.
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Nicola Baxter has written or compiled over three hundred children's titles. She has developed ideas for a wide variety of international publishers, and particularly enjoys the marriage of words and pictures that children's books entails. Cathie Shuttleworth was trained in calligraphy, heraldry and illumination, but her real love is illustration for children'
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