From schooldays to summer holidays, and from childhood fantasies to nostalgic reminiscences, writers have provided us with a rich seam of children's poetry over the years.
This delightful selection brings over seventy poems together, from such celebrated poets as A.A. Milne, Kenneth Grahame, Hilaire Belloc, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Michael Rosen, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Allan Ahlberg, Spike Milligan and Rudyard Kipling.
It mixes classic titles such as 'The King's Breakfast', 'On the Ning Nang Nong', 'Teeth', 'The Jumblies' and 'Jabberwocky' with more recent entries including 'First Day at School', 'Aliens Stole my Underpants', 'Talking Turkeys!!' and 'The Computer's First Christmas Card'.
Acknowledgments to: The Society of Authors as Literary Representative of the Estate of A.E. Housman, The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare, and the Society of Authors as their representative.
Poems by Charles Causley taken from Collected Poems 1951 2000, published by Macmillan. 'A Child's Calendar' taken from Selected Poems by George Mackay Brown, published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd. 'The Grass House' is from OUT AND ABOUT Copyright ? 1988 Shirley Hughes. Recorded by permission of Walker Books Ltd., London.
'Don't Call Alligator LongMouth Till You Cross River' is from Say It Again, Granny! by John Agard, published by Bodley Head. Reprinted by permission of the Random House Group Ltd. Two Ogden Nash poems used by permission of Curtis Brown Ltd. Copyright ? 1936 by Ogden Nash, renewed. All rights reserved.
A thoughtprovoking 51 minute audio presentation for writers, readers, students, teachers, parents...anyone who has ever wondered why a particular poem is their favorite....
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John Donne's famous poem about two lovers surprised by the astonishingly rapid arrival of sunrise, read by Bill Wallis....
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A traditional collection of animal rhymes and songs to join in and sing along with, accompanied by lively music and real animal sounds....
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The Lovin' Touch stories were first told on Dick Summer's late night radio shows in New York and Boston, and later published as poetry books.....
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Charles Dance, Jeremy Irons, Dominic West, Felicity Kendal, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox, Emilia Fox
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Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell....
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Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixtysix poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood....
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One of the founder of the Romantic Movement Samuel Taylor Coleridge was great friends with William Wordsworth. Here, Sir Ralph Richardson reads a selection of his finest works....
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A lonely boy who lives on the mainland. A childless couple who look after a lighthouse. A rocketship kennel that appears from nowhere. This is the story of DOGMAN....
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Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson, Robert Speaight
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This poet of Victorian times was held in awe for his magnificent works, including In Memoriam, Morte D'Arthur, and Charge of the Light Brigade....
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The 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 1892), one of the most popular of poets, is celebrated in 2009....
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Christina Rossetti, Henry Longfellow, Edgar AllenPoe, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Maculay
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Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but narrative verse or poetry takes the form of telling a story whether it be simple or complex in a longer form....
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Dedicated to the Spirit within us all, these rhyming verses are intended to entertain, enlighten, and inspire....
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