Gaby Morgan

Poems of Childhood

Herausgegeben:Morgan, Gaby;Mitarbeit:Morpurgo, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that.

Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by acclaimed children's writer, Michael Morpurgo.

Poems of Childhood combines the best of classic children's poetry into one anthology featuring a rich range of themes - from animals to nursery rhymes, from nonsense poems to magic. Many favourites are here, including 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Tyger'. This delightful collection is the perfect gift for children and a chance for adults to revisit their favourite verse from the likes of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame.

Produktdetails

• Macmillan Collector's Library 211
• Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library / Macmillan Publishers International
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 81695, 900200576
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 102mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 144g
• ISBN-13: 9781509893782
• ISBN-10: 1509893784
• Artikelnr.: 54662697

Autorenporträt

Gaby Morgan is an Associate Publisher at Macmillan Children's Books and has run the children's poetry list for thirty years. She has compiled many bestselling anthologies including Read Me and Laugh: A Funny Poem for Every Day of the Year, Poems from the First World War, Fairy Poems - which was short-listed for the CLPE Award - and the Macmillan Collector's Library poetry series featuring anthologies on Happiness, Nature, Childhood, Travelling and Christmas.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
1: Animals Poem
1: The Owl and the Pussy
Cat
Edward Lear Poem
2: The Kitten at Play
William Wordsworth Poem
3: The Cat and the Moon
W. B. Yeats Poem
4: Maggie
Anon. Poem
5: The Duel
Eugene Field Poem
6: Old Mother Hubbard
Anon Poem
7: An Alphabet of Questions
Charles Edward Carryl Poem
8: Measles in the Ark
Susan Coolidge Poem
9: Old Noah's Ark
Anon Poem
10: There Was an Old Lady
Anon Poem
11: The Lion and the Unicorn
Anon Poem
12: The Law of the Jungle
Rudyard Kipling Poem
13: The Tyger
William Blake Poem
14: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
John Keats Poem
15: Way Down South
Anon Poem
16: The Spider and the Fly
Mary Botham Howitt Poem
17: Against Idleness and Mischief
Isaac Watts Poem
18: How Doth the Little Crocodile
Lewis Carroll Poem
19: Hey Diddle Diddle
Anon Poem
20: Three Blind Mice
Anon Poem
21: Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Anon Poem
22: Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Anon Poem
23: Mary Had a Little Lamb
Sarah Josepha Hale Poem
24: The Mouse, the Frog and the Little Red Hen
Anon Poem
25: A Frog He Would a
Wooing Go
Anon Poem
26: Five Little Speckled Frogs
Anon Poem
27: A Song of Toad
Kenneth Grahame Poem
28: The Shark
Lord Alfred Douglas Poem
29: The Lobster Quadrille
Lewis Carroll Poem
30: The Donkey
Anon Poem
31: The Plaint of the Camel
Charles Edward Carryl Unit
2: Counting Poem
1: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Anon Poem
2: One Potato
Anon Poem
3: Thirty Days Hath September
Anon Poem
4: Three Little Ghostesses
Anon Poem
5: One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Anon Unit
3: Nature Poem
1: The Months
Sara Coleridge Poem
2: Child's Song in Spring
Edith Nesbit Poem
3: Seven Times One: Exultation
Jean Ingelow Poem
4: I Saw
Anon Poem
5: Daffodils
William Wordsworth Poem
6: Symphony in Yellow
Oscar Wilde Poem
7: What is Pink?
Christina Rossetti Poem
8: I Asked the Little Boy Who Cannot See
Anon Poem
9: Lavender's Blue
Anon Poem
10: Little Robin Redbreast
Anon Poem
11: She Sells Seashells
Anon Poem
12: I Had a Little Nut Tree
Anon Poem
13: The Mulberry Bush
Anon Poem
14: Banyan Tree
Anon Unit
4: People Poem
1: Pat
a
cake
Anon Poem
2: Little Miss Muffet
Anon Poem
3: Peter Piper
Anon Poem
4: Simple Simon
Anon Poem
5: Little Jack Horner
Anon Poem
6: Little Boy Blue
Anon Poem
7: Each Peach Pear Plum
Anon Poem
8: Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Anon Poem
9: Doctor Foster
Anon Poem
10: Betty Botter
Anon Poem
11: Jack and Jill
Anon Poem
12: Polly and Sukey
Anon Poem
13: Rosy Apple
Anon Poem
14: Monday's Child
Anon Poem
15: Daisy
Anon Poem
16: Old King Cole
Anon Poem
17: Humpty Dumpty
Anon Poem
18: Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me?
Anon Poem
19: Bobby Shaftoe
Anon Poem
20: There Was a Princess Long Ago
Anon Poem
21: Brown Girl in the Ring
Anon Poem
22: Waltzing Matilda
Banjo Paterson Poem
23: The School Boy
William Blake Poem
24: from The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning Poem
25: La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats Poem
26: Lochinvar
Sir Walter Scott Unit
5: Nonsense Poem
1: Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll Poem
2: Tweedle
dum and Tweedle
dee
Anon Poem
3: Beautiful Soup
Lewis Carroll Poem
4: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat
Lewis Carroll Poem
5: You Are Old, Father William
Lewis Carroll Poem
6: The Mad Gardener's Song
Lewis Carroll Poem
7: The Sugar
Plum Tree
Eugene Field Poem
8: Wynken, Blynken and Nod
Eugene Field Poem
9: There Was an Old Man with a Beard
Edward Lear Poem
10: The Man in the Wilderness
Anon Poem
11: The Jumblies
Edward Lear Poem
12: The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll Poem
13: The Pobble Who Has No Toes
Edward Lear Unit
6: Places Poem
1: I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood Poem
2: From a Railway Carriage
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
3: The Big Ship Sails on the Alley, Alley O
Anon Poem
4: A Sailor Went to Sea Sea Sea
Anon Poem
5: Pop Goes the Weasel!
Anon Poem
6: The Bells of London
Anon Poem
7: London Bridge Is Falling Down
Anon Unit
7: Fairies, Mermaids and Witches Poem
1: Fire, Burn; and Cauldron, Bubble
William Shakespeare Poem
2: Overheard on a Saltmarsh
Harold Monro Poem
3: The Mermaid
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
4: The Merman
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
5: The Forsaken Merman
Matthew Arnold Unit
9: Night Poem
1: Star Light, Star Bright
Anon Poem
2: Bed
time
Anon Poem
3: Hush, Little Baby
Anon Poem
4: Sweet and Low ( from The Princess)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
5: The Star
Jane Taylor Poem
6: A Cradle Song
Thomas Dekker Poem
7: A Cradle Song
Thomas Dekker Poem
8: My Shadow
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
9: Escape at Bedtime
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
10: The Land of Story Books
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
11: I Had a Boat
Mary Coleridge Poem
12: Windy Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
13: The Land of Counterpane
Robert Louis Stevenson Poem
14: Minnie and Winnie
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Poem
15: Teddy Bear
Anon Poem
16: I See the Moon
Anon Index
ii: Index of Poets Index
iii: Index of Titles Index
iv: Index of First Lines