Lullabies And Poems For Children

by Diana Secker Tesdell (editor)

In this enchanting collection, favourite bed-time songs for children 'Rock-a-bye, Baby', 'Bye, Baby Bunting', 'Golden Slumbers' mingle with less familiar lullabies from around the world. Added to these are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to your little ones, from Brahms's 'Lullaby' to Gershwin's 'Summertime'; from Shakespeare's lullaby for the fairy queen Titania to Langston Hughes's lullaby for a 'night black baby'.Here, too, are nursery rhymes, and poems for older children by a wide variety of authors Walter de la Mare, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, T.S. Eliot and Ogden Nash, to name but a few. Whether the intent is to soothe or to amuse, there is something here for every mood, every child, and the child in every adult.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published April 24, 2002

Reviews

[Angie Rhodes · Rating 5 out of 5]

All the old favourite Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies are here, plus some that I didn't know, It is ideal for children , and parent's to read to little ones, or like me, just to re visit, books from childhood, x

[Corinne Fowler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mission accomplished:. Put me right to sleep. Lol. It's amazing how many lullabies there actually are.

[Liselotte · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a cute book! I loved the stories and lullaby's, and was surprised to see some people in it like Robert Louis Stevenson and William Makepeace Thackeray.
The only downside was that they did use more diverse stories from different countries, but there were so few of them that it kind of felt like they were only put in to hit that diversity quota.
I don't want a story or a song from literally every country in the world, but just SOME more would've been nice!

Other than that, this is amazing and I'm so happy to have it. It looks adorable and the insides are just as adorable as the outside!