For children of seven years and over, this anthology, featuring the very best of poetry written for children over the last 100 years, has been updated for the new millennium to include poems from the nineties. The black and white line drawings are by Michael Foreman.

 

This book is part of a book series called Puffin Poetry .

There are 416 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice. His books are published all over the world. Brian Patten was born in Liverpool. His poetry for adults has been translated into many languages, and his collections include Collected Love Poems, Armada, and, from Penguin,