Puffin Book Of Modern Childrens Verse

by Brian Patten

The Puffin Book of Modern Children’s Verse is the definitive collection of modern children’s poetry of our time. Enchanting, funny, exciting and poignant, there is every kind of poem for every kind mood.

Discover the very best of children’s poetry from the greats of the poetry world including, Allan Ahlberg, W. H. Auden, Charles Causley, Roald Dahl, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin, Laurie Lee, Roger McGough, Spike Milligan, A. A. Milne, Wilfred Owen, Brian Patten, Sylvia Plath, Michael Rosen, Ian Serrallier, W.B. Yeats, Benjamin Zephaniah and many, many more!

Genres: Poetry, Childrens

395 pages, Paperback

First published September 7, 2006

Reviews

[Pollymoore3 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Favourites here include: Kathleen Raine's "Spell of Creation", Rupert Brooke's "These Have I Loved", and Eleanor Farjeon's "Mrs Malone", (which I can never get to the end of without welling up...)