Favorite Poems Old and New
Helen Ferris; Illustratedf by Leonard Weisgard
- Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1957
- 598 p.
Includes index
Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry.