The Humpherys Family

First Poems of Childhood

Record Added: 2/26/2011
A Favorite Book
Author 
Illustrator 
Setting United States
Topic Poetry
Publisher Platt & Munk Publishers
ISBN 0822805057   Year 1967
Age 4-8   Pages 45
Description Green printed dustjacket
 
Tasha Tudor has illustrated with grace and delicacy this collection of favorite poems for the very young. Animals, holidays, the seasons, farm and forest, the magic world of fantasy--all the world of childhood is beautifully illumined by Miss Tudor's genius. Here are the verses of such favorite poets of childhood as Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, and many others. For it's wonderful words, and for Tasha Tudor's warm and colorful expression of the beauty that is poetry, this should be every child's first book.