| Description |
175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Fairy story / Stevie Smith -- Meet-on-the-road / Anon. -- The listeners / Walter de la Mare -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The malfeasance / Alan Bold -- What has happened to Lulu? / Charles Causley -- Le Belle Dame Sans Merci / John Keats -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- As Lucy went a-walking / Walter de la Mare -- The hairy toe / Traditional -- Life story / Anon. -- Storytime / Judith Nicholls -- Jim who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion / Hilaire Belloc -- What happened to Miss Frugle / Brian Patten -- Ballad / Gerda Mayer -- After ever happily / Ian Serraillier -- Three wise old women / Elizabeth T. Corbett -- The old woman and the sandwiches / Libby Houston -- The nose / Iain Crichton Smith -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- One winter night in August / X.J. Kennedy -- Here is the news / Michael Rosen -- Welsh incident / Robert Graves -- Journey / Judith Nicholls -- A speck speaks / Adrian Mitchell -- The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold -- The inchcape rock / Robert Southey -- Mary Celeste / Judith Nicholls -- Sir Patrick Spens / Anon. -- The Pied Piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning -- P.C. Plod versus the Dale St Dogstrangler / Roger McGough -- Uncle Alfred's long jump / Gareth Owen -- Mr. Tom Narrow / James Reeves -- Bishop Hatto / Robert Southey -- Count carrots / Gerda Mayer |
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The Lady of Shalott / Lord Tennyson -- The apple-tree man / Charles Causley -- Lost / James Godden -- The sad story of a little boy that cried / Anon. -- Annabell and the witches / Mick Gowar -- By St. Thomas Water / Charles Causley -- Good taste / Christopher Logue -- Humpty Dumpty's recitation / Lewis Carroll -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- Jonah and the whale / Gareth Owen -- The Jackdaw of Rheims / Richard Harris Barham -- The complacent tortoise / Brian Patten -- The little turtle / Vachel Lindsey -- Merlin and the snake's egg / Leslie Norris -- The unicorn / E.V. Rieu -- Combinations / Mary Ann Hoberman -- The centipede / Anon. -- The ambitious ant / Amos R. Wells -- The lion and the echo / Brian Patten -- The crunch / Gerda Mayer -- Noah's Ark / Roger McGough -- The pelican chorus / Edward Lear -- The huntsman / Edward Lowbury -- Childe Maurice / Traditional -- Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A legend of the Northland / Phoebe Cary -- The story of Canobie Dick / Libby Houston -- How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning -- The highwayman / Alfred Noyes -- The man in the moon stayed up too late / J.R.R. Tolkien -- Switch on the night / Ray Bradbury |
| Summary |
Narrative poems for children feature modern and traditional poets |
| Analysis |
Children's poetry in English, to 1980 - Anthologies |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, American.
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Children's poetry, English.
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Narrative poetry, American.
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Narrative poetry, English.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Author |
Harrison, Michael, 1939-
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Stuart-Clark, Christopher.
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| LC no. |
96166418 |
| ISBN |
0192760874 (hard) |
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019276103X (paperback) |
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