children's poetry, english

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.

Nonsense verses, ballads, and other poems on a magical theme introduce the letters of the alphabet, from King Arthur in Avalon through Moths and Moonshine to Zachary Zed.

A walrus and a carpenter encounter some oysters during their walk on the beach--an unfortunate meeting for the oysters.

A collection of poems for children by such authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, Wordsworth, D.H. Lawrence, and Christina Rossetti.

An anthology of fifty-eight poems.

Pairs of poems--one simpler, one more mature--provide opportunities for parent and child to read aloud together on such themes as rain, horses, the wind, loneliness, and books themselves.

An illustrated collection of sixteen bedtime poems for children, including selections by Eugene Field, Carl Sandburg, Lilian Moore, and others.

Collection of twenty-six poems about animals whose names begin with the letters of the alphabet.

The collector has illustrated her collection of more than 120 nonsense rhymes about animals, which derive from a variety of sources.