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Anthology of classic and contemporary children's poetry.
If you're someone who cherishes the imaginative world of children's literature, "The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse" might just become a treasured addition to your collection. It's an enchanting journey through poems that have the power to capture hearts across generations. This compendium can reignite your love for rhythmic words and offer your family the chance to bond over shared readings.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780192142474
Authors:
Neil Philip
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date of Publication: 1996-11-07
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.7
(rated by 20 readers)
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The world of children's poetry is as diverse and as miraculous as the human imagination itself, a land where owls and pussy-cats set to sea in beautiful pea-green boats, and tigers burn bright in the forests of the night. It embraces word play, parody, nonsense, lullaby, and elegy, and ranges from brief nursery rhymes to long narratives. It can be utterly silly, but it also recognizes that if children's lives are full of wonder and delight, they are also fraught with worries, disappointments, and moments of sadness. The best children's poets come to terms with grief as well as joy. Now, in The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, Neil Philip has surveyed and mapped this delightfully protean landscape, in a book that spans some two hundred and fifty years, from Isaac Watts, the first true children's poet, to such classic figures as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and A. A. Milne, to scores of contemporary writers, such as Richard Wilbur, Sandra Cisneros, and Jack Prelutsky. The range of poems is remarkable. Young readers will find long narratives such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" and Robert Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin" as well as Mick Gowar's "Rat Trap," a political satire that parodies Browning's poem. The book also includes many miniature gems, such as Og
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Anthology of classic and contemporary children's poetry.
If you're someone who cherishes the imaginative world of children's literature, "The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse" might just become a treasured addition to your collection. It's an enchanting journey through poems that have the power to capture hearts across generations. This compendium can reignite your love for rhythmic words and offer your family the chance to bond over shared readings.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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