| ID | 007972 |
| Call Number | 821.008/McG |
| Title Proper | 100 best poems for children |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | McGough, Roger (ed.) ; Moxley, Sheila (ill.) |
| Publication | London, Penguin Group, 2001. |
| Description | 129p Voilet Spine |
| Note | A treasure trove of contemporary and classic verse. |
| Note | The hero of the match - Neil Adams
What Turkey doing? - John Agard
Please Mrs Butler - Allan Ahlberg
The Fairies - William Allingham
November night countdown - Moira Andrew
Dover beach - Matthew Arnold
Song of the worms - Margaret Atwood
The Dolly on the dustcart - Pam Ayers
Matilda - Hilaire Belloc
The Tiger - William Blake
Starter - Tony Bradman
from The pied piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning
November evening - Gerald Bullett
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Colonel Fazackerley - Charles Causley
Hallowe'en - Leonard Clark
I think my teacher is a cowboy - John Coldwell
from The Rime of the ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kenneth - Wendy Cope
Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf - Roald Dahl
The listeners - Walter de la Mare
A slash of blue - Emily Dickinson
Please Sir!! - Peter Dixon
The bird's nest - John Drinkwater
The Lion and Albert - Marriott Edgar
The word party - Richard Edwards
Macavity: The mystery Cat - T.S.Eliot
Water Voles and Moles - Gavin Ewart
Cats - Eleanor Farjeon
The tree in season - Robert Fisher
Four o'clock Friday - John Foster
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening - Robert Frost
Ducks' ditty - Kenneth Grahame
Paying calls - Thomas Hardy
The painting lesson - Trevor Harvey
Mid-term break - Seamus Heaney
Lullaby - Adrian Henri
The story of Little Suck-a-Thumb - Dr Hoffmann
From carnival to cabbage and rain - Julie Holder
The old brown Horse - W.F. Holmes
I remember, I remember -Thomas Hood
Amulet - Ted Hughes
Abou Ben Adhem - Leigh Hunt
Greedy Dog - James Hurley
Friends - Elizabeth Jennings
My best Ice cream - Terry Jones
Old Meg - John Keats
A smuggler's song - Rudyard Kipling
Gran's XI - John Kitching
The Owl and the Pussy-cat - Edward Lear
Poem for my sister - Liz Lochhead
from The song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prince Kano - Edward Lowburry
The Snowman - Wes Magee
The Magic Piper - E.L.Marsh
Sea-fever - John Masefield
In flanders fields - Lt.Col. John McCare
The sound collector - Roger McGough
Sometimes I think you don't listen to a word I say - Colin McNaughton
On the ning nang nong - Spike Milligan
Rat it up - Adrian Mitchell
Overheard on a Saltmarsh - Harold Monro
Adventures of Isabel - Ogden Nash
Brian's picnic - Judith Nicholls
Wha me mudder do - Grace Nicholls
The highwayman - Alfred Noyes
Excuses, excuses - Gareth Owen
The race to get to sleep - Brian Patten
Aunts and Uncles - Mervyn Peake
Homework! Oh Homework! - Jack Prelutsky
A Martian sends a postcard home - Craig Raine
The sea - James Reeves
A spell for sleeping - Alastair Reid
Eletelephony - Laura E.Richards
If you don't put your shoes on before I count fifteen - Michael Rosen
Flint - Christina Rossetti
The visitor - Ian Serraillier
from Fox in Socks - Dr Seuss
Witches' chant from Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Penguin complaints - Jo Shapcott
Little Abgail and the beautiful pony - Shel Silverstein
Jack Frost in the garden - John P.Smeeton
Homework - Elizabeth Smith
I can't find my teddy bear - Ian Souter
From a railway carriage - Robert Louis Stevenson
Dog in Space - Matthew Sweeney
A riddle - Jonathan Swift
The stars at night - Jane and Ann Taylor
The Lady of Shalott - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
October - Edward Thomas
A dragon in the classroom - Charles Thomson
Far over the misty mountains - J.R.R.Tolkien
The hairy toe - Traditional
The day I fell down the toilet - Steven Turner
When Betty eats spaghetti - Colin West
The grateful dragon - Raymond Wilson
The Daffodils - William Wordsworth
The magic box - Kit Wright
The fear - Andrew Young
Little sister - Benjamin Zephaniah |
| Standard Number | 9780141310589 |
| Price. Qualification | £12.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 821.008 |
| Key Words | IGCSE ; Children's poetry, English |