In an outstanding collection of both classic and new poems, thirty of the best contemporary poets have selected their favourite children's poem to appear alongside a poem of their own. Poets such as Sophie Hannah, Jackie Kay, Valerie Bloom, Wendy Cope, Kit Wright, Andrew Motion, Roger McGough and Matthew Sweeney rub shoulders with the likes of Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Betjeman, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc and e e cummings, to name but a few.
- ISBN10 0330517120
- ISBN13 9780330517126
- Publish Date 4 September 2009 (first published 7 May 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 November 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Young Picador
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 128
- Language English