The Classic Book of Best-Loved Children's Poems / edited by Virginia Mattingly ; with illustrations by Nicky Cooney, Robin Lawrie, Graham Percy, Jenny Williams, Rosemary Woods.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattingly, Virginia, editor.

Cooney, Nicky, illustrator.

Lawrie, Robin, illustrator.

Percy, Graham, illustrator.

Williams, Jenny (Illustrator), illustrator.

Woods, Rosemary, illustrator.

Bucher, Elaine M., editor.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry.

Poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

56 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm

Distribution:

Philadelphia : Imprint of Running Press,

Other Title:

Best-loved children's poems

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : [Published by] Courage Books, 1997.

Contents:

Foreword / Virginia Mattingly

Snails and Tails. from The Snail / Sabine Baring-Gould; The Snail's Dream / Oliver Herford; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat / Edward Lear; The Fly-Away Horse / Eugene Field; from The Cat That Walked By Himself / Rudyard Kipling; The Cat of Cats / William Brighty Rands; from The Kitten and the Falling Leaves / William Wordsworth; Mary's Lamb / Sarah Josepha Hale; from The Worm / Ann Taylor; from The Pelican Chorus / Edward Lear; Caterpillar / Christina Rossetti; from Beasts, Birds, and Fishes / Ann Taylor

Lullabies. Swing High and Swing Low / Eugene Field; Lullaby for a Baby Airy / Joyce Kilmer; A Cradle Song / Thomas Dekker; Sweet and Low / Alfred, Lord Tennyson; The White Seal's Lullaby / Rudyard Kipling; from Lullaby, and Good Night / Johannes Brahms; Rock-a-Bye, Baby / Traditional Lullaby; Good Night / Victor Hugo

Call of the Wild. Trees / Sara Coleridge; from The Clouds / Percy Bysshe Shelley; from Night / William Blake; Daffodils / William Wordsworth; A Chill / Christina Rossetti; Sea Shells / Amy Lowell; The Crescent Moon / Amy Lowell

Tall Tales & Silly Things. Topsy-Turvy World / William Brighty Rands; I Stood Against the Window / Rose Fyleman; from The Beginning of the Armadillos / Rudyard Kipling; Wynken, Blynken, and Nod / Eugene Field; from The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning; Pirate Story / Robert Louis Stevenson; The Land of Story-Books / Robert Louis Stevenson; A Nonsense Rhyme / James Whitcomb Riley; Minnie and Winnie / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Merry Melodies. The Bluebird / Emily Huntington Miller; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star / Jane Taylor; The Piper / William Blake; from The New-England Boy's Song / L. Maria Child; Marching Song / Robert Louis Stevenson

Playful Rhymes. Climbing / Amy Lowell; The Children's Hour / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Child's Talk in April / Christina Rossetti; from By the Water / Christina Rossetti; My Little Doll / Charles Kingsley; Chusing a Name / Charles Lamb; The Circus-Day Parade / James Whitcomb Riley.

Notes:

"Cover and interior design by Peter Bennett. Cover illustration by Robin Lawrie. Interior illustrations by Nicky Cooney, Robin Lawrie, Graham Percy, Jenny Williams, and Rosemary Woods. Edited by Elaine M. Bucher. Set in Caslon."--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.

Running Press copies are "1" printing.

ISBN:

0762401001

9780762401000

OCLC:

37998567