The Hutchinson Treasury Of Children's Poetry

This sumptuously illustrated and unforgettable treasury brings together over three hundred of the best-loved poems to open the door of the imagination and take children on a unique journey exploring the fun and wonder of rhyme and verse. Here are the best of contemporary poems and poetry from the past, reflecting the diversity of mood, interest and form of verse.

Designed to grow with your child, the book begins with traditional nursery rhymes, action poems and young verse by such favourites as Eleanor Farjeon and Shirley Hughes, continues in a complexity featuring the work of Roger McGough, Michael Rosen, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Christina Rossetti, among many others, and introduces the classics with the work of such poets as Keats, Shelley, Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare.

Here you can meet the cow who jumped over the moon, eavesdrop on Lewis Carroll's zany conversation between a walrus and a carpenter, revel in the exploits of T.S. Eliot's mystery cat and delight in the very contemporary confrontation between Roald Dahl's Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. You can travel with Robert Frost through the snowy woods, take a detour to Langston Hughes city in the morning and go back in time with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to the ancient American shores of Gitche Gumnee. You will see how writers like Edward Lear and Michael Palin can make you laugh in just a few lines and how longer poems like Robert Browning's 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' can tell a story.

New illustrations by such modern masters as Quentin Blake, Angela Barrett, Satoshi Kitamura, Rachel Isadora, Charlotte Voake and Tony ross rest beautifully alongside the work of such classic children's illustrations as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham and Jessie Willcox Smith to create a book that is a feast for the eye as well as the ear.

Designed and produced with meticulous care and attention, this treasury is a book for the entire family to share and one that will last the whole of childhood - and beyond.