The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

The 20th Century Children's Poetry TreasuryBy: Illustrator: Meilo So "Until this century, most children's poetry was either syrupy sweet or overblown and didactic, and tended to talk down to its readers. Contemporary children's poets have thrown all that condescension and moralizing out the window, and write with today's real child in mind." from the Introduction by Jack Prelutsky Here in one gloriously illustrated volume are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to

and astonishing narrative of a financially desperate but emotionally rich childhood on the wrong side of Hollywood’s tracks

marine animals

Jordan puts a sexy twist on Pygmalion

always outrunning her past and the nightmares that haunt her

Dirty dishes

A vocabulary tree at the beginning of the book introduces kids to key words in concept groups

By: John Guy     COSTA AWARD FINALIST

It’s a breathless game of duplicity and death

Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character—he is a born anarchist—and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans

notes and suggested further reading

shades of The Phantom Tollbooth and echoes of Pixar's Inside Out

they are bound by rules and force