All the Colours of the Earth : A Multi-Cultural Treasury - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845070143 ISBN 13: 9781845070144

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Bks, 2004

Synopsis

Imagine the brilliant colours and smells of fruit in a Caribbean market, the vast variety of tins and jars in a North American supermarket. Imagine how many kinds of street music there are, the different ways children play with swings and kits and boats. Imagine the different seasons. Then imagine things that are the same worldwide - land and trees and creatures being destroyed, wealth and poverty spreading. Imagine believing in good hope, a future when life will be better. This volume contains exciting verse from all over the world by poets such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Grace Nichols, Rabindranath Tagore, Margaret Mahy, Christina Rossetti, John Agard and Robert Louis Stevenson.

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Cooling is a highly respected figure in the children's book world. A former teacher, she is the founder of the Bookstart programme and has edited story collections for Puffin, Orion and Collins, poetry anthologies for Franklin Watts and has retold traditional tales for Barefoot Books. Wendy lives in Hertfordshire. Sheila Moxley studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and graphic design at St Martin's School of Art. Skip Across the Ocean, a collection by Floella Benjamin, was her first book for Frances Lincoln. Her other books include Joy to the World by Saviour Pirotta, Heather Maisner's Diary of a Princess, Rebecca's Passover by Adele Geras and All the Colours of the Earth, a collection of rhymes edited by Wendy Cooling. She lives in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Review:

"This beautifully produced poetry book contains a truly international choice of poems which demonstrates that children share many experiences and concerns no matter where in the world they live." The Bookseller"

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Bks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1845070143
• ISBN 13: 9781845070144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 45