- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd (30 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856972216
- ISBN-13: 978-1856972215
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 2 x 13 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 199,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An eclectic mixture of poetry, ballads, limericks, riddles and nonsense verse from all over the world. They range from the famous to the unknown, from the thoughtful to the hilarious, and from poems thousands of years old to some that are new.
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Got one mind for the boss to see, Got another mind for what I know is me. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable for adults as well as children,
By A Customer
This review is from: A World of Poetry (Paperback)
When I bought this book I intended on using it to share with my primary class. As a trainee teacher it was a recomended poetry book. However, when I bought it I found I enjoyed it myself. Some comment was made that the poems weren't all suitable for children. I don't necessarily agree with that. However, some of the poems are more "sophisticated" than others.An good, light read.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Four legs good, two legs bad,
By Caballero del febo (Antony, France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A World of Poetry (Paperback)
There are plenty of wonderful poems in this book (authors run from Michael Palin to William Wordsworth and anonymous poems from various cultures). But the main factor presiding over choice seems to be politically correct moralization. The book starts with a two-liner called "Slavery", and moves on to denounce the rich, the militaristic, the modern and the white with depressing regularity -- try the selection from Chief Dan George's "My Heart Soars":
"I see my white brothers Going about blotting nature from his cities" (sic), etc. "US Flies in Hamburgers" also seems indicative of Michael Rosen's politics. The "Topic List" at the end of the volume lists as many poems about "Pollution" as about "Beauty", more on "Injustice" than "Death" or "Stars, Moon & Sky", etc. You can guess the moral of the four "Hunting" poems. On the whole, the collection is mainly composed of free verse -- rhyme and meter being mainly the province of limericks, a fair number of mischievous child-oriented lyrics and a handful of folk-songs. This means that much of the "poetry" (a great deal in translation) stands or falls on the merits of its imagery or the moral it is trying to convey. Having bought this for my children as a sampler to read out loud, I found much of the content too demoralizing and too far from recognizable poetic rhythms to pursue it very far. A really joyless collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of fun......,
By Anne Salazar "inveterate reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A World of Poetry (Paperback)
These poems are fun to read to your child, or by yourself, as I do -- then send the best ones on via email. There are some you've heard of, and a lot you haven't. I wish there were more books like this. I wish poetry was still valued.
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