First Poems (Poetry and Folk Tales) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852139560 ISBN 13: 9781852139568

Publisher: The Watts Publishing Group, 1996

Synopsis

This is a collection of 60 illustrated poems for young children. The poets include Michael Rosen, Wendy Cope, Edward Lear and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the poems range from classic to new, and from funny to familiar. This is a perfect introduction to poetry for the very young, combining classic and new poems, funny poem s and familiar poems, all illustrated in full colour. '

About this title

About the Author

Julia Eccleshare was born and educated in Cambridge. Her accomplished career includes editing for the Times Literary Supplement, Puffin Books and Hamish Hamilton. Julia currently works for The Guardian.For Orchard books Julia has edited the story collection How the Camel got His Hump and the poetry collection First Poems. (September 2000)Julia is married with four children and lives in London.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-5-This tempting sampler of light verse offers 60 poems, most of which are by English or American authors. Included are old favorites such as Stevenson's "The Land of Nod," Carroll's "Beautiful Soup," Lear's ubiquitous "Owl and the Pussycat"; a handful of Mother Goose rhymes; and works by contemporary writers such as Judith Viorst, Max Fatchen, and Spike Milligan. Selections are loosely grouped together by topic-friendship, sibling rivalry, nonsense, animals, nature, etc.- with a nice mix of short works (four lines or less) and medium-length verse (generally four or five stanzas). Most of them rhyme, but there are a few samples of blank verse as well. There are a couple of weak entries, but most are of excellent quality. The brightly colored black-line and watercolor cartoons that appear on every page are highly appealing. Oddly, though, the multiethnic children all look alike-round-faced and chinless. The title of the collection may present a slight problem, as the abstract concepts in many of the poems are too sophisticated for the very young. While not an essential purchase, the volume will make a pleasant addition.
Karey Wehner, San Francisco Public Library
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Watts Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852139560
• ISBN 13: 9781852139568
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Selina Young
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Julia-eccleshare