25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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A BEAUTIFUL POETRY BOOK FOR CHILDREN, July 18, 2007
This book is filled with amazingly beautiful poetry by famous poets along with amazingly beautiful illustrations.
Here are some of the poets and poems,
William Blake--Night
Which is the Way to Somewhere Town? Kate Greenaway
Summer Sun --Robert Louis Stevenson
Wenkyn, Blenkyn and Nod--Eugene Field
The Kitten and the Falling Leaves--William Wordsworth
The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse--Christina Rossetti
Trees--Sarah Coleridge
The Mountain and the Squirrel--ralph Waldo Emerson
Certainty--Emily Dickenson
THe Months--Sarah Coleridge
The Owl and the Pussycat--Edward Lear
A Sea Song from the Shore--James Whitcomb Riley
My Valentine--Robert Louis Stevenson
The Crocodile--Lewis Carroll
Who is Tapping at my Window?---A.G.Deming
The Sea Gull--Gaelic Folk Song
The Eagle--Alfred Lord Tennyson
Pippa's Song--Robert Browning
Lo, THe Winter is Past--Song of Solomon
Spring--William Blake
From the Bridge--John Keats
Let Dogs Delight--Isaac watts
Good Night--Victor Hugo
Early to Bed--Old Proverb,
Mother--George cooper,
A Swing Song---William Allingham
Be True--William Shakespeare,
The Happy Sheep-- wilfred Thorley
The Breeze--Old Garden Rhyme
Daisies--Frank Dempster sherman
The Elf and the Doormouse--Oliver Herford
There are many, many more like these. It's a book full of wonderment and innocence and respect for all our great creator has given us, including imagination.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Totally beautiful, April 6, 2003
My father read to us from this book when we were children, and all of us had our favorites. When I saw it had been reprinted, I bought a few! I have been reading to my kids from the old copy for several years.
The variety of poetry in this collection is astounding. Poems date back to Shakespeare, into Dickenson's time, and also as recently as the 1960's. There are classics like Wynken, Blynken and Nod, but newer ones like What is Pink? A Rose is Pink. There are poems from women as well as men, and there is variety in the length as well.
The one thing that all these poems have in common is their beauty. Recently children's poets have resorted to ickiness and shock to attract children. These poems use language that expands their vocabulary and makes them want to use these new words themselves. My children have started using words like prithee!
The illustrations in this book are as attractive to me now as they were when I was a child, and my children love them as well. The illustration for Daffodils makes a person feel as though we are wandering lonely as a cloud with the child as well. If this book were more widely available, I would buy a stack to give out at baby showers.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Children's Book Ever!, June 21, 2000
I still have my copy of A Child's Book of Poems, my most beloved childhood book. I read from it to my son every night. This is the most beautifully illustrated anthology of poems by great poets, some famous and some not so well known (from William Blake to William Shakespeare) I have ever seen! I have so many of the poems memorized that I hardly have to look at the words, allowing me to soak up the fantastic artwork as I get lost in a wonderland of rhyme. It is a shame that this book is not still in print.
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