english poetry

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english poetry

The owl and the pussycat

2006
After a courtship voyage of a year and a day, Owl and Pussy finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married.

Old Mother Hubbard

2001
Light-hearted illustrations accompany this version of the familiar nursery rhyme about an old woman and her playful dog.

A child's garden of verses

1989
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood. Illustrated with antique pictures by some well-known children's book illustrators.

My shadow

1990
An illustrated version of the poem in which a child describes her relationship with her shadow.

The golden treasury of poetry

1959
An illustrated collection of over 350 English and American poems, about animals, people, famous events, the seasons, and Christmas, and including nonsense verse, inspirational lines, and wisdom in rhyme.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

1992
An illustrated edition of the familiar nineteenth-century poem celebrating one bright little star.

Roald Dahl's Revolting rhymes

1983
Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.

The young inferno

2009
An illustrated, twenty-first-century adaptation of Dante's "Inferno," in which a teenage hero navigates his way through the nine circles of Hell in search of his soul mate, Beatrice.

The Roald Dahl treasury

1997
Presents selections from the writings of English author Roald Dahl, with over fifty stories, rhymes, memoirs, letters, and poems arranged by theme.

Poetry speaks to children

2005
Presents a collection of ninety-five children's poems written by seventy-three poets including Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, and many more; and includes an audio CD featuring fifty-two poems.

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