Classic poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, beautifully illustrated by Crystal Cregge. Includes a brief, child-friendly introduction to each poet. Includes poems by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and many more! Favorites such as “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” and “Casey at the Bat” are here, as well as overlooked gems like “The Pobble Who Has No Toes” and A.A. Milne’s “The King’s Breakfast.”

This illustrated book is wonderful on its own, and also makes a perfect companion to Jim Weiss’s audio version: kids learn language and vocabulary when they follow along with the text and illustrations while listening to the audio performance.

Like all of our books, this book is made in the USA from child-safe paper and dyes.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Nursery Rhymes and Poems from Mother Goose:
  Little Jack Horner
  Wee Willie Winkie
  There Was a Crooked Man
  Three Men in a Tub
  Old King Cole
  Hey Diddle Diddle
  Little Miss Muffet
  Peter Piper
  One Misty, Moisty Morning
• Poems About Nature:
  About Robert Frost
  The Pasture (Frost)
• About Robert Louis Stevenson
  Windy Nights (Stevenson)
• Who Has Seen the Wind? (Rossetti)
• About Christina Rossetti
  Clouds (Rossetti)
• About Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Afternoon on a Hill (Millay)
• About William Butler Yeats
  The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats)
• About Carl Sandburg
  Theme in Yellow (Sandburg)
• Fog (Sandburg)
• About Emily Dickinson
  To Make a Prairie (Dickinson)
• I Send Two Sunsets (Dickinson)
• About e.e. cummings
  In Just (Cummings)
• Little Tree (Cummings)
• Wild Ride #1:
  About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Paul Revere’s Ride (Longfellow)
• All-American Poems:
  About Walt Whitman
  I Hear America Singing (Whitman)
• About Ernest Thayer
  Casey at the Bat (Thayer)
• Unusual Companions:
  The Bean-Stalk (Millay)
• About John Kendrick Bangs
  The Little Elf (Bangs)
• The Song of the Wandering Aengus (Yeats)
• Poems that Take Flight:
  The Eagle (Tennyson)
• About Rachel Field
  Something Told the Wild Geese (Field)
• The Swing (Stevenson)
• Inspiration:
  About Edgar A. Guest
  It Couldn’t be Done (Guest)
• Wild Ride #2:
  About Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson)
• Sensible Nonsense:
  About A.A. Milne
  Jonathan Jo (Milne)
• The King’s Breakfast (Milne)
• About Vachel Lindsay
  The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky (Lindsay)
• About Edward Lear
  The Pobble Who Has No Toes (Lear)
• Bedtime and Dreamtime:
  Bed in Summer (Stevenson)
• About Thomas Hood
  In The Summer When I Go to Bed (Hood)
• About Eugene Field
  Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Field)
• About Leigh Hunt
  Abou Ben Adhem (Hunt)