The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems - Hardcover

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9780192760555: The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192760556 ISBN 13: 9780192760555

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1988

"I should like to rise and go
where the golden apples grow."
For the child entering the world of poetry for the first time, The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems will prove both delightful and illuminating.
Beginning with limericks and tongue-twisters, word-plays and nursery rhymes, we are led into the world of children's poetry. Here are poems about giants and dragons, fairies and trolls; about parents and neighbors, spiders and alley cats; about the seaside and windy walks, food and parties. You'll also find poems about naughty children, poems to make you laugh, and poems for bedtime.
Beautifully illustrated by a variety of artists, it's a collection to start any child off on a lifetime's enjoyment of poetry.

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About the Author:

Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark have had a long and successful partnership as poetry compilers. Among their anthologies published by Oxford are The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems and Noah's Ark. Michael Harrison is Head of English in an Oxford school. Christopher Stuart-Clark is principal of a school in Hong Kong.

From Publishers Weekly:

Despite its staid title, this 175-page volume of poems is filled with playful, toe-tapping rhymes. Light verse and narrative poems dance side by side with puns and couplets from writers as diverse as John Masefield and Shel Silverstein. The poems are informally groupeda page or two of poems about animals, food, weatherbut without dictinct divisions in the format. The illustrations, by over 30 different artists, include both black - and - white cartoons and full-color paintings, a hodgepodge of illustrated pages that seem snipped from a hundred school books and bound together as one volume. Like the poems, the drawings vary in style and effectiveness, but overall, the book will find favor with those who enjoy jaunty variety. All ages.
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