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Like its predecessor, Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse, this is an anthology of poetry written for children. It begins in the eighteenth century and ends in 1995, with the emphasis on modern work, and the explosion of talent that has emerged on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 25 years. This is a book bursting with vitality and variety: over 350 poems by more than 200 poets, in which narrative poems, concrete verse and performance poetry with poems of the classroom and playground. Acute observation and language new-made inform all these poems, which represent the ethnic and cultural diversity of contemporary writing for children ranging from African American and Aborigine to Caribbean/Black British and New Zealand and Canadian. Familiar names such as Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling and A. A. Milne happily lead on to new generations: Charles Causley, Ted Hughes, Roger McGough, Allan Ahlberg, Jackie Kay and many more. The result is an exuberant anthology whose contents speak with humour, passion, and insight to the child reader: it is a pudding packed with plums.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192881076
eBay Product ID (ePID)91388186
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameThe New Oxford Book of Children's Verse
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPoetry
Publication Year1998
TypeStudy Guide
Subject AreaLanguage Study
AuthorNeil Philip
SeriesOxford Books of Verse
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight530 g
Additional Product Features
EditorNeil Philip
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom