Christina Rossetti

by Frances Thomas

Why is Christina Rossetti, probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, so invisible today? This is the central question addressed in this biography. Rossetti, author of Goblin Market, My Heart... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844083489
• ISBN13: 9781844083480
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
• Length: 448 Pages

Customer Reviews

We love Ross Collins

Our household was introduced to the illustrations of Ross Collins in "Jack and the Dreamsack". My daughter enjoyed looking at the pictures when she was very very small (3 months), particularly the page with the black and white dream tree where Jack picks up a seed. He uses bright colors and seems to have a crazy dreamlike imagination. This makes the pictures fun for kids to look at but also less boring for you the adult as they are not your typical cutsie baby images. Once we had "Jack" we picked up this book (Opposites) and our daughter (16 months now) carries it over to me all the time. I like that it comes in board book and is sturdy enough to handle the traffic it's getting. It also only has one sentence per page so when she was small and was just in it for the page turning I could get it out but now that she's becoming more tolerant I read the sentence and then point to the small dude and say he's small and then to the big dude and say he's big. I also comment on other items in the picture (like this is an umbrella). We also have "The No-Nothings" (we don't love this one that much) and have "Numbers" and "Busy Night" on their way.

WONDERFUL!!!!!

I LOVE THIS BOOK!! Polly sounds like me in some parts of it. It's a well written book, and I adore the illustrations. It's very funny, too. I like when Polly said about Horace "He is the only dead thing I have ever seen apart from flies which don't count." It's one of the best books made!! Frances, you did a great job!! Please write more books!! I LOVE THEM!!! THIS BOOK ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great book!

This is a great book. It has captured the attention of my 5 month old daughter since she could first focus on it (at about 6 weeks). She loves the rhythm of the words. I highly recommend this book and the Little Monster's Book of Opposites for even the littlest babies, but the books will "grow" with them too. I expect this book to be good as my daughter learns how to count.

great book

This is a really cute book. My 16 month old son is learning basic words and concepts and loves this book. The illustrations explain the concepts. A nice existential twist makes it more interesting for the adults as well.