The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosen for the sheer pleasure they offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to children and "to assemble a collection of poems that the owner will not outgrow." With that in mind, she has included very few works that were written solely for a young audience. The more than 250 pieces gathered here range from ballads to epics, from inspired nonsense to memorable reflections on love and death. A wide variety of poets grace these pages, from Mother Goose to Shakespeare, from Emily Dickinson to Noel Coward, from Robert Frost to Ogden Nash. Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and Rosetti's "Goblin Market" will enchant young readers as much as T. S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats" and Lewis Carroll's "The Mock-Turtle's Song" will entertain them. Adorned with engravings by the eighteenth-century artist Thomas Bewick, this collection belongs in every family's library.
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Gillian Avery (1926- ) was born in Reigate, Surrey, where she started her writing career as a journalist on the Surrey Mirror. Deciding that the pace of book publishing was more congenial than that of newspapers, she went to Oxford in 1950 to work for the Clarendon Press. In 1952 she married a don, Anthony Cockshut, and when they moved to Manchester she was so homesick for Oxford that she set her first novel, The Warden's Niece (1957), in an Oxford college in Victorian times, feeling an affinity between her own pre-war generation and the Victorian child, characterized by a 'meek acceptance of the power of the adult world'. Returning to Oxford in 1964, she continued to write novels, including A Likely Lad, set in Manchester, which won the Guardian award for children's fiction in 1971 and was successfully dramatized as a children's TV serial.
Gillian Avery is also well known as a reviewer and historian of children's literature. Her two most recent books are Behold the Child: American Children and their Books, 1621-1922 and The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children.
Gillian Avery is also well known as a reviewer and historian of children's literature. Her two most recent books are Behold the Child: American Children and their Books, 1621-1922 and The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent anthology,
By Masato Nishimori (Osugi, Ishikawa, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) (Hardcover)
Editor Gillian Avery says in the introduction that this is a book of poems that "the owner will not outgrow." Thus these are poems that hold as much value for adults as for the young. (Some other book has in its title "for the young of all ages;" I like that concept!) This is a wonderful mix of verse both serious and fun, divided into sections: Rhymes and Nonsense, The Year and its Seasons, Journeys and Places, Spells Magic and Mystery, Strange Tales, Music and Dancing, Battles Soldiers and Patroits, Birds and Beasts, Childhood and Youth, Some People, Love and Lovers' Tales, Last Things. A fine volume.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) (Hardcover)
For anyone who loves poems. For children and adults alike. I think there are many poems in this book which are a bit too complex for children but that's ok. There's an incredible variety of poems which should appeal to everyone. I purchased this book to read to my four year old. Some of them she enjoys very much, others not so. But as she grows up I'm hoping this is one of the books she returns to every now and then like the poem books I still have from my infancy.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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ancient, complex poetry sure to baffle children,
By Carl G. (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) (Hardcover)
I love poetry, I'm a huge fan of the Everyman's Series, and the prospect of an Everyman's book of poetry for children may have set my expectations too high. Another reviewer notes that some of the poems may be difficult for children, and I second that. Few rhyme. Now, whatever your stance on rhymes and poetry, I think most folks who know children will agree that rhyming is key. To a child, it's what makes a poem a poem. And for the most part, these poems don't rhyme, and are sure to baffle the young, would-be poetry fan. Aside from that, the majority were written more than a century ago, and the wordage is awkward to a young modern child's ears.
A children's poetry anthology can be many things, but a young reader ought to be able to hole up in a corner somewhere and read, understand, follow, be delighted and tickled now and then, and generally come to realize that hey--I like poetry! This book won't pull that off.
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