The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems - Softcover

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9780192762023: The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192762028 ISBN 13: 9780192762023

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

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, parents, spiders, and the seaside. Beautifully illustrated, this is a collection guarranteed to start any child off on a lifelong appreciation of poetry.

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About the Author:

Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark have had a long and very productive partnership as the editors and compilers of a number of Oxford anthologies, including The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems, The Oxford Book of Animal Poems, Bright Star Shining and The Oxford Book of Story Poems.

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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