The Folio Book of Children's Poetry

This anthology collects poems written for children or long read by them, from nonsense and nursery rhyme to narrative ballad and quieter lyric. Typical pieces include talking animals, school and garden scenes, night fears, ships, and comic cautionary tales. Contributors range from earlier makers of children's verse to later twentieth-century writers who address a young listener without simplifying every line. There is no continuous story and no single speaker. The book is a mixed reader of children's poetry, not a textbook of verse form and not one poet's collected work for the young.

Bound in dark blue image blocked cloth with glow-in-the-dark varnish. Colour title-page spread and 54 integrated colour illustrations. Printed endpapers. Image blocked dark blue slipcase with glow-in-the-dark varnish.