Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Children's Poems

by Patricia S. Klein

Book Overview

A collection of children's poems, divided into different subject categories. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375721452
• ISBN13: 9780375721458
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Random House Reference Publishing
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A sensible anthology

I opine that too many children's monographs are riddled with cartoonish, horrifyingly garish "illustrations" of a variety which do nothing but diminish the warmth and power of the words accompanying them. Patricia Klein has collected a sensible selection of poems related to children and published them with nary a picture in sight. Brava. Furthermore, the poems are often works of well-respected, time-tested names, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, to name a few. Author as well as title indices are quite useful features. The contents are charmingly presented in chapters by subject -- with names such as "Come Out and Play!", "Grand Adventures", "Wind, Rain, and Snow", and "Bedtime Blessings". Overall this precious little gem of an anthology hearkens back to a publishing age when titles--even for tots--were graciously arranged and produced with obvious care and concern for the intellectual edification of the intended audience. Immensely worthwhile as a birthday or Christmas gift for any small person whom the giver wishes to be exposed to clean, sober literature offered in an eminently respectable, classic format.