The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
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Brand: BooksCompiler: Jack Prelutsky
Illustrator: Arnold Lobel
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1983-09-12
ISBN: 0394850106
Number of pages: 248
Publisher: Random House
Product features:
- Topical arrangement includes: Nature is; The Four Seasons; Dogs and Cats and Bears and Bats; The Ways of Living Things; Me I Am! and many more!
- Index of Titles, Index of First Lines, Index of Authors
- Subject Index
Summary of The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
"A generous collection with a distinctly upbeat tone, this gives a taste of the best poets writing for children over the last several decades. Lobel's drawings imbue the whole with action and graphic images as inventive as the verse. Successfully geared to meet home, school, and library needs."--(starred) Booklist.The Random House Book of Poetry for Children was recognized upon its publication in 1983 as an invaluable collection--a modern classic--and it has not since been surpassed. Five hundred poems, selected by poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky, are divided into broad subject areas such as nature, seasons, living things, children, and home. The poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, and Gwendolyn Brooks populate the book's pages, while Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and Shel Silverstein ensure that the collection delights even the most reluctant readers of rhyme. Playground chants, anonymous rhymes, scary poems, silly verse, and even some sad strains are carefully indexed by title, author, first line, and subject. With illustrations of cheerful, round-faced children and animals on every page, Arnold Lobel (a Caldecott medalist and creator of the Frog and Toad series) unifies the diverse poems to form a satisfying whole; Lobel can draw anything and make it funny--or poignant, if he chooses. This collection, one of the most varied and complete around, will carry any budding poetry lover through childhood and beyond. (Ages 5 to 11.)
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