Description
Inspire a lifelong love of language-and give kids a head start in school!-with this outstanding poetry collection. To improve reading comprehension, luminous watercolor paintings illustrate the 70 famous poems, which are arranged by life stages and cover a wide range of common human experiences. From Shakespeare to Stevenson and Milton to Moore, iconic English-language poetry comes alive in this breathtaking gift book that they’ll never outgrow. Features an introduction from UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
The Shaking City 
Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt 
Slippery Characters 
Flood 
The Skies Above My Eyes 
Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots 
Negative Space 
Postman Bear 
Days of Grace 
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: A Book of Strange and Comic Poems 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Carnac (Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets) 
Come on In! 
What Rhymes with Sneeze?