A collection of poems for children touching on things from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. It also contains poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat.

Including Jabberwocky , The Pied Piper of Hamelin , The Highwayman , The Lady of Shalott , and The Owl and the Pussycat , this is a collection of over sixty narratives in verse with tales, rhymes, and tragic poems. The authors include Hilaire Belloc, Edward Lear, Walter de la Mare, JRR Tolkien, James Reeves, Roger McGough, and Michael Rosen.

This is a classic of children's literature, the charm and melancholy humour of de la Mare's poems is captured here by Edward Ardizzone's illustrations.

Presents poems with a distinctive Scottish flavour aimed to delight and inspire young readers. This book offers a collection of poems for children available by Scottish poets. There are almost sixty Scottish poets represented, with poems in English, Scots, Gaelic, and Shetlandic. Each poem is accompanied by a biographical piece by the poet.

This anthology of poems aims to form the cornerstone of a lifetime's enjoyment of poetry. Sparks fly in the sounds, rhythms and stories and in the surprises and jokes that spring up.

A book of poems about baby bugs and mini-beasts, and the sea and its inhabitants. It also features green things: endangered, extinct and ecological, reptiles and amphibians, amazing mammals, and winged things - birds and creatures of the air.

A collection of poems, one for each day of the year.

A collection that brings together various verses for children. It combines a traditional lyrical element with a knowledge of children and their lives, loves, fears and games.

A collection of classic and brand-new poems celebrating all the best things about Christmas.

A treasure trove of poems on all sorts of subjects in all sorts of forms, from bestselling poet John Foster.

An introduction to the ways of using poetry to promote children's thinking and learning.

Features poems about poems, poems about life, poems about kangaroos and chameleons and caterpillars (though not in the same verse), and more.

Offers a collection of modern children's poetry. There are poems for every kind mood. Discover children's poetry from the greats of the poetry world including, Allan Ahlberg, WH Auden, Charles Causley, Roald Dahl, TS Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, and more.

Poems to Speak, Sing and Shout. Turn up the sound! The award-winning duo of Paul B Janeczko and Chris Raschka return with a playfully enticing ode to the pleasures of reading poetry aloud.

Features a selection of the silly poems, old and new.

Includes poems for various occasions, subjects or moods.

Contains a poem about school for every day of the year. This book includes poems about the start and end of each term, about school trips, playtime, lessons, lunch, teachers, dinner ladies, friends, sports days and much more.

Contains a comprehensive collection of poems for children to enjoy, think about, and be reassured about their personal fears. This work includes poems which touch on topics such as being left out, making mistakes at school, and those niggling night-time fears. It contains poems by Helen Dunmore, Adele Geras, Kaye Umansky, Tony Bradman, and others.

Brain-ticklingly brilliant!