children's poetry, english

A collection of children's poems by writers as Michael Rosen, A.A. Milne, Ogden Nash, Christina Rossetti, Charles Causeley, Brian Patten, and Edward Lear.

A collection of poems using the theme of imagination, by writers from Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson to Eve Merriam and Shel Silverstein.

An anthology of mostly very short poems by standard, contemporary, and anonymous poets, intended to stimulate interest in reading and writing poetry.

Twenty poems about such emotions as fear, hate, love, delight, and guilt by a variety of English and American poets.

A collection of animal poems by authors including Rachel Field, Shel Silverstein, and John Ciardi.

An illustrated collection of rhymes, songs, and poems about animals from Belloc, Rossetti, Wordsworth, and other British and American writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A collection of English and American poems featuring a variety of magical and supernatural creatures.

An illustrated collection of primarily traditional or anonymous verses.

Collects more than 250 poems for children by poet laureate Ted Hughes, arranged by volume and age level, and includes nearly two hundred drawn illustrations.

A collection of favorite poems by such writers as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes, with portraits of the poets, brief biographical background, and illustrations.