How many of one's favourite poems are story poems? This is a wonderful collection of over sixty narratives in verse with thrilling tales, silly nonsense rhymes, tragic poems that will keep you in suspense, and funny, quirky poems that will delight over and over again. All the classic poems you would expect to see are here, such as 'Jabberwocky', 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin', 'The Highwayman', 'The Lady of Shalott', and 'The Owl and the Pussycat' and these combine with more modern but equally satisfying poems to make a rich and varied anthology. Authors include Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear, Walter de la Mare, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Reeves, Roger McGough, and Michael Rosen.
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`Stunning for reading aloud, this is a remarkable and refreshing collection of poems that tell a story.' The Daily Telegraph
`a throughly good-looking anthology' TES
`Compiling anthologies is skilled work. Christopher Stuart-Clark and Michael Harrison have excelled themselves here . . . What library, school, or family could afford to be without it?' The Sunday Times
`a throughly good-looking anthology' TES
`Compiling anthologies is skilled work. Christopher Stuart-Clark and Michael Harrison have excelled themselves here . . . What library, school, or family could afford to be without it?' The Sunday Times
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Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark are the co-editors of several Oxford anthologies, including A Year Full of Poems, The Dragon Book of Verse, One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children, and The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems.
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Sick of reading board books, I bought this one. What a delight. Even my husband, a non-reader, will join us for bedtime now as I read these marvelous poems to my 10-month-old. He doesn't yet understand the words, but the beauty of the English language is seeping into his mind, and I am enjoying these read-alouds to him.
The illustrations in this volume are inconsistent, and not credited as far as I can see, but the poems are well-chosen and have a nice mix of old and new. This is a British book so this is largely with Brit poets, but that is no bad thing, and we find Browning's Piet Piper here, all to the good.
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I went into the wood one day Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I went into the wood one day Read the first page Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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