Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite poems. If children like them as much as she does, then (she says) they will stay in the mind long after their readers have grown out of childhood. Her taste is for the Augustan rather than the Romantic writers, but her choice of over two hundred and fifty pieces ranges widely, from ballads to Ted Hughes, from Ben Jonson to Noel ...
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Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite poems. If children like them as much as she does, then (she says) they will stay in the mind long after their readers have grown out of childhood. Her taste is for the Augustan rather than the Romantic writers, but her choice of over two hundred and fifty pieces ranges widely, from ballads to Ted Hughes, from Ben Jonson to Noel Coward. The illustrations are taken from the books of natural history made by Thomas Bewick, the celebrated English wood engraver.
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Thomas Bewick Wood-Engravings. Good+ Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very clean and tight textblock. Yellow silk bookmarker sewn into headband, and frayed at the tip; Moderately shelf soiled binding, bumped corners and spine extremities, and slightly fray and worn corners; A good reading copy, but not in collectible condition; 379pp., including indeces.
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New. Gillian Avery, novelist and historian of children's books, has compiled this collection of her favourite poems. Her choice of over 250 pieces range from ballads to Ted Hughes, from Ben Jonson to Noel Coward. Illustrator(s): Bewick, Thomas. Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics. Num Pages: 379 pages, 1. BIC Classification: YQE. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 213 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626. 1994. First Thus. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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