This enjoyable anthology has been especially compiled by the poet Kit Wright. There are exciting poems about highwaymen, spine chilling poems of spectres and ghouls, delightful uplifting poems about animals and nature, as well as poems that are simply full of wit fun and laughter. From Milligan to Shakespeare, via A A Milne and Tennyson, this wide ranging collection of poems, old and new, has the added bonus of Michael Foreman's superb illustrations.

 

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

There are 192 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 1985 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Kit Wright was born in 1944 and is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children. His books of poetry include The Bear Looked Over the Mountain (1977), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award, and Short Afternoons (1989), which won the Hawthornden Prize and was joint winner of the Heinemann Award. His poetry is collected in Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000 (2000). Michael Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice. His books are published all over the world.