A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0152938230 ISBN 13: 9780152938239

Publisher: Clarion Books, 1982

Inspired by William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, this delightful collection of poetry for children brings to life Blake’s imaginary inn and its unusual guests.

About the Author:

Nancy Willard has loved William Blake’s poetry from the day she first heard it. While writing the poems in this book, she built a six-foot model of the inn, decorating it with moons, suns, stars, and prints of Blake’s paintings. The model with its residents—the characters that appear in this volume—stands in her living room.

Nancy Willard published her first book when a high school senior—an inset in the Horn Book, which was called A Child’s Star. Formerly a lecturer in the English department at Vassar College, she is the author of a number of well-received children’s books, including Sailing to Cythera: And Other Anatole Stories and The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole, both winners of a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. 

Alice and Martin Provensen have been honored by the Art Books for Children Citation of the Brooklyn Museum, by the Gold Medal for illustration of the Society of Illustrators, by exhibitions at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and by being included on the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year list on nine occasions.

Alice and Martin Provensen have been honored by the Art Books for Children Citation of the Brooklyn Museum, by the Gold Medal for illustration of the Society of Illustrators, by exhibitions at the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and by being included on the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year list on nine occasions.

Review:

Blake Leads A Walk On The Milky Way
Blake Tells The Tiger The Tale Of The Tailor
Blake's Wonderful Car Delivers Us Wonderfully Well
Epilogue
The King Of Cats Orders An Early Breakfast
The King Of Cats Sends A Postcard To His Wife
The Man In The Marmalade Hat Arrives
The Marmalade Man Makes A Dance To Mend Us
A Rabbit Reveals My Room
The Sun And Moon Circus Soothes The Wakeful Guests
The Tiger Asks Blake For A Bedtime Story
Two Sunflowers Move Into The Yellow Room
When We Come Home, Blake Calls For Fire
William Blake's Inn For Innocent And Experienced Travelers
The Wise Cow Enjoys A Cloud
The Wise Cow Makes Way, Room, And Believe
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ