Poems for the Very Young - hardcover

Poems for the Very Young is a wonderfully varied collection of poems chosen by Michael Rosen and illustrated with wit and exuberance by Bob Graham. Its contents range from the hilariously funny to the thought-provoking, from playground rhymes and nonsense verse to poems by favourite writers, classic and modern. Imaginative and entertaining, this is an inspiring first poetry anthology for children and grown-up to share. Poets included are John Agard, Jonathan Always, Duncan Ball, Isobel Best, Evelyn Beyer, Tony Bradman, Buson, Charles Causley, Rene Cloke, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Afua Cooper, John Cunliffe, Sonja Dunn, Ki Ellwood-Friery, Willard R. Espy, Gavin Ewart, Eleanor Farjeon, Max Fatchen, Aileen Fisher, Sheree Fitch, John Foster, Rose Fyleman, Sylvia Gerdtz, Robert Gray, Wilbur G. Howcroft, Langston Hughes, W. Kingdon Ward, Elizabeth Lang, Dennis Lee, Jasmine Lehal, M. Long, Doug MacLeod, Michelle Magorian, Margaret Mahy, Rik Martin, Tania Mead, Eve Merriam, Spike Milligan, A.A. Milne, Alexander Mthombeni, Grace Nichols, Joan Poulson, Jack Prelutsky, Linval Quinland, Laura E. Richards, James Whitcomb Riley, Michael Rosen, Carl Sandburg, Clive Sansom, Shiki, Stevie Smith, Arnold Spilka, Robert Louis Stevenson, Raj Tanday, Sara Teasdale, Charles Thomson, George Watson and Kit Wright