Collected poems for children / Ted Hughes ; pictures by Raymond Briggs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.

Contributor:

Briggs, Raymond.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry, English.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Summary:

This collection brings together the more than 250 children' s poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his career. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those published for younger readers and progressing to more complex and sophisticated poems that he felt were written " within hearing" of children. Throughout, Hughes reveals his instinctive grasp of a child' s insatiable wonderment and sense of humor as well as his own instinctive and illuminating perspective on people and other creatures of the natural world. With drawings that capture the wit, range, and richness of these poems, acclaimed illustrator Raymond Briggs helps make this a book any reader can return to again and again for amusement, inspiration, and reassurance.

Contents:

Mermaids' purse

Cat and the cuckoo

Horrible song

Meet my folks!

Nessie the mannerless monster

Moon-whales and other moon poems

Under the north star

From what is the truth?

Season songs

Index of titles

Index of first lines.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Limited, 2005."

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

9780374314293

0374314292

OCLC:

76142036

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