children's poetry, english

The hobbit Bilbo Baggins bids farewell to his friends and to the world of Middle-earth as he sets forth on his last journey.

Sixty-six poems by dozens of English and American authors are full of rhythm and movement and suitable for reading aloud.

An illustrated collection of forty-eight short poems for children written by such famous English authors as Kipling, Shelley, Blake, and Wordsworth.

A fanciful introduction to numbers and how they impose order on the world around us.

A reprint of a 1959 anthology, featuring over four hundred illustrated poems for families, grouped by theme.

A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.

Eighteen poems about witches by L. Frank Baum, e.e. cummings, Eleanor Farjeon, and others.

An illustrated version of Stevenson's classic poem, in which a child tells about her relationship with her shadow.

A child creates a world of his own which has mountains and sea, a city and ships, all from toy blocks.

A collection of silly read-aloud poems for children by a variety of classic and contemporary poets.