To be read aloud before bed or during a quiet moment, this book introduces a literature of delight to the whole family. In the Victorian era, the best poets and literary minds created a special world for children. Today these poems, with their rollicking energy and old-fashioned values, are still brimming with charm, whimsy, and truth.
Here are offerings from Amy Lowell, Edward Lear, James Whitcomb Riley, Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined with treasures hidden for a century or more in scrapbooks, anthologies, and dusty copies of "The Youth's Companion" and" St. Nicholas Magazine." Poems on the virtues of home and family, the seasons, animals, patriotism-and silly poems that mean nothing at all.
Charming full-color pictures of the period decorate each page, and for parents and older readers, there is marginalia on the poem or poet.
30,000 copies in print.
- ISBN10 1563053136
- ISBN13 9781563053139
- Publish Date 10 January 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 September 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Workman Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 128
- Language English