Poetry for young people

Introduces the poetry of Carl Sandburg with a short biography.

With fantastic characters and enchanting, rhythmic, and sometimes nonsense language, Lewis Carroll created magical wonderlands. In his worlds, many things appear upside down and inside out, the rules of logic just don't apply, and everything pompous gets cut down to size. No surprise, then, that children love to visit there, sliding down the rabbit hole with Alice, battling the dreaded Jabberwock, or hunting for that mythical Snark. Carroll's classic...

Introduces the poetry of William Shakespeare through a sampling of sonnets and excerpts from his plays.

An illustrated collection of nineteen popular poems by William Wordsworth, who was the poet laureate of England in the mid-nineteenth century. Includes an introduction to the poet's life and work.

A collection of illustrated poems enjoyable for children selected from the works of William Blake.