The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019276134X ISBN 13: 9780192761347

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

For children entering the world of poetry for the first time, The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems is a delight that will provide many hours of enjoyment. Beginning with tongue-twisters and nursery rhymes, the book enters the land of children's poetry with verse about giants and dragons, fairies and trolls, about parents, spiders, and the seaside. Beautifully illustrated, this is a collection to start any child off on a lifetime's enjoyment of poetry.

About this title

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.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 019276134X
• ISBN 13: 9780192761347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Harrison Michael, Stuart-Clark Christopher