This beautifully illustrated collection will introduce children to a lifetime of pleasure in poetry. Carefully selected, the poems open up an enchanting world of rhythm and language, feeling and fantasy. The collection features a wide range of well-known writers including Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, William Blake and John Keats. It includes many beautiful poems such as Robin Hood, Waltzing Matilda, Jemima, A Thing of Beauty, A Lark's Nest, Symphony in Yellow, and Spring and Fall. Gathering together classic poems on all manner of wonderous and fascinating themes that children will thrill to explore, the colourful and imaginative illustrations on every page capture the magic of imaginary worlds loved and enjoyed by generations of girls and boys.The volume includes an 'About the Poets' section with a brief biography for each. Nicola Baxter has written or compiled over three hundred children's titles. She particularly enjoys the marriage of words and pictures that children's books entail.