The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children Illustrated by Thomas Bewick |
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Editor:
| Avery, Gillian |
Illustrator:
| Bewick, Thomas |
Series title: | Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-679-43634-8 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1994 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosennbsp;for the sheer pleasure theynbsp;offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to children andnbsp;"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 herenbsp;range from ballads to epics, from inspired...
More Description The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosennbsp;for the sheer pleasure theynbsp;offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to children andnbsp;"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 herenbsp;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 tonbsp;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 thenbsp;eighteenth-century artistnbsp;Thomas Bewick, this collection belongs in every family's library.