This beautiful, timeless collection brings together all Charles Causley's verse for children. His poetry combines a traditional lyrical element with a knowledge of children and their lives,loves, fears and games that is completely up to date.

 

There are 480 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 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.