The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children: Illustrated by Thomas Bewick

by Gillian Avery and Everyman's Library

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children is a treasury of great poems chosen for the sheer pleasure they offer to readers of all ages. Compiler Gillian Avery's aim was to avoid condescending to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679436340
• ISBN13: 9780679436348
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

fantastic

For anyone who loves poems. For children and adults alike. I think there are many poems in this book which are a bit too complex for children but that's ok. There's an incredible variety of poems which should appeal to everyone. I purchased this book to read to my four year old. Some of them she enjoys very much, others not so. But as she grows up I'm hoping this is one of the books she returns to every now and then like the poem books I still have from my infancy.

excellent anthology

Editor Gillian Avery says in the introduction that this is a book of poems that "the owner will not outgrow." Thus these are poems that hold as much value for adults as for the young. (Some other book has in its title "for the young of all ages;" I like that concept!) This is a wonderful mix of verse both serious and fun, divided into sections: Rhymes and Nonsense, The Year and its Seasons, Journeys and Places, Spells Magic and Mystery, Strange Tales, Music and Dancing, Battles Soldiers and Patroits, Birds and Beasts, Childhood and Youth, Some People, Love and Lovers' Tales, Last Things. A fine volume.