Child's Book of Poems

William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poemsfirst published in 1969are among literatureâs most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawaâs appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellowâs Christmas Bells,â Lewis Carrollâs The Melancholy Pig,â and Eugene Fieldsâ Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,â along with proverbs, limericks, nursery rhymes, and folk songs.