A collection of 228 poems, divided into 11 sections such as "Charm and Flower", "Season and Festival" and "Myth and Fable". The author has been awarded the Kurt Maschler Award for "Jack the Treacle Eater", the Signal Poetry Award for "Early in the Morning" and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

 

There are 416 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Pan Macmillan .

Charles Causley was born in Cornwall, and apart from six years spent in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, lived there all his life. He was one of Britain's foremost poets, writing for both adults and children. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967 and appointed CBE in 1986. In 1987 he won the Kurt Maschler Award for Jack the Treacle Eater and in 1990 the Ingersoll/T. S. Eliot Award of America. Charles Causley died in 2003. John Lawrence has contributed to over one hundred books for children and adults as an illustrator and wood-engraver. Twice Winner of the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award, his illustrated titles include The Mysteries of Zigomar by Allan Ahlberg; Christmas in Exeter Street and the Walker Treasure A Year and a Day.