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A Child's Book of Poems

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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.

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.

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.

I had this poem come into my head at the age of 40 - "old dog". The lines of it came to me once in awhile - I searched for it and searched for it - no luck anywhere. Finally I found an old handwritten book of poems of mine - favorites I had copied at the ripe old age of 10. Lo and behold - "Old Dog" was in this book. I bought it - I read it almost nightly to my 5 year old daughter and she is slowly but surely coming to love it also. At first I think she was just humoring her mother, but now she actually requests it. What a beautiful book, what lovely poetry. Another reviewer mentioned too much for their child, too boring, too something - I say "pshaw!" to that - half the problems with todays kids is that their parents don't even try to bring them back to the simpler days in life - when things weren't all flashy and quick and immediate. Read to your children, show them the finer things in life that we were shown oh so many years ago. They'll take to it too if you just give them the chance!

When I was a child, I had a copy of Gyo Fujikawa's book "My Favorite Thing," and absolutely loved it. When I saw this new book illustrated by Fujikawa I had to order it. The illustrations bring back childhood's magic. As my family is becoming transracial very soon, I also love that Fujikawa includes pictures of children of all different races. This book will not disappoint!

I had been wanting to find a good book of poems for my 3 year old. We had tried some from the library and she didn't really like them. I found this version and I remembered Gyo Fujikawa's illustrations from when I was a child. We bought this book for a Christmas present. She LOVES it! She loves the pictures and has already memorized a poem! She would have me reading poems out of this book all day if she could! Such a great intro to poetry!

My two year old son and I both love this book. The poetry is wonderful and the illustrations are lovely. I get asked to "wead powems" nearly every night. These classic poems are instilling a love of poetry in my son that will last for years. I'm buying this for friends with children because I know they'll love it too.

My 35 year old daughter still has her copy of this book which I gave to her when she was 2 or 3 yrs. old. We spent many hours over many years reading the poems.

It is a beautiful, warm experience to lose onesself in this book.
I never tire of just leafing through the pages once more.

I want this book for my grandchildren. It definitely is due to be reprinted.

This is a beautiful book. I bought this book recently as a gift for my seven-month-old daughter - although she's a little young for it now, I wanted a book with good poetry that she could keep forever. I don't normally buy many books online that I haven't seen before, but after reading the reviews and the list of poets, decided to get it. I'm so glad I did! The poetry and illustrations are beautiful. There are longer poems, like "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth and "The Day is Done" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and a lot of shorter poems or poem fragments by many poets, including Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Kate Greenaway, William Blake, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Greenleaf Whittier and Lewis Carroll. The illustrations are more beautiful than I imagined - subtly colorful and intricate. There also are some nursery rhymes with smaller black-and-white sketches - plenty to look at and perfect for the short attention of a little one. I'm so happy with this purchase I plan to buy more books illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa. They are just gorgeous.

This is such a great collection of poetry! The poetry of variety of accomplished poets is accompanied by sweet and beautiful illustrations. My kids love this book.