A fresh,original anthology that children of 9-12 will find packed with poems to enjoy.Fiona Waters has ranged far and wide to come up with an extraordinary collection where old favourites are juxtaposed with unusual contemporary choices in a seemingly random way.Here are Shakespeare,Keats,W.B.Yeats,Hardy,Heaney and Cavafy alongside Benjamin Zephaniah,U.A.Fanthorpe,Shel Silverstein and Roger McGough.Here too are a Navajo hymn to sun,moon and stars,a Tagore poem,a Basho haiku and a poem about war by a 9th century Chinese poet-all of them opening up a whole world of language and imagination. A pleasing chunky format and generously designed pages,with lively small drawings and decorations throughout,make the book particularly attractive and approachable for children

 

There are 288 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 1996 by Hachette Children's Group .

Fiona Waters has worked in children's books for many years. She is an experienced writer of children's fiction and non-fiction.