Are you looking to introduce classic poetry to a child? And, by classic I mean canonical--Shakespeare, Dickinson, Poe. Then look no further than The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems.
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems, compiled and illustrated by Jackie Morris, and with an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy, is a beautiful new collection of poetic masterpieces.
The book opens with Emily Dickinson's "A Book" and E.V. Rieu's "The Paintbox," honoring the word and illustration. What follows is a wide variety of poems you know from Nash to Yeats, Carroll to Rilke, Millay to Shakespeare, Stevens to Browning. And, Michele, there's even a Siegfried Sassoon poem included.
Jackie Morris illustrates her selected poems with lush illustrations of animals, people, oceans, seas, ships, and many, many stars. My favorite illustration adorns a two-page spread with "She Walks in Beauty" (Byron) on the left page and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" (Yeats) on the right. On the left page a serious man holds the train of a woman's blue cloak, a cloak that continues all the way to the top of the right page where a woman stares out into the "cloths of heaven."
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems is a perfect gift for the holidays or for a new baby. It's one of those rare books that can stand on a bookshelf from birth through high school graduation.
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems, compiled and illustrated by Jackie Morris, and with an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy, is a beautiful new collection of poetic masterpieces.
The book opens with Emily Dickinson's "A Book" and E.V. Rieu's "The Paintbox," honoring the word and illustration. What follows is a wide variety of poems you know from Nash to Yeats, Carroll to Rilke, Millay to Shakespeare, Stevens to Browning. And, Michele, there's even a Siegfried Sassoon poem included.
Jackie Morris illustrates her selected poems with lush illustrations of animals, people, oceans, seas, ships, and many, many stars. My favorite illustration adorns a two-page spread with "She Walks in Beauty" (Byron) on the left page and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" (Yeats) on the right. On the left page a serious man holds the train of a woman's blue cloak, a cloak that continues all the way to the top of the right page where a woman stares out into the "cloths of heaven."
The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems is a perfect gift for the holidays or for a new baby. It's one of those rare books that can stand on a bookshelf from birth through high school graduation.
9 comments:
Ooh which one ? Is it the one to his son ??
It's a short one: "The General"
Nice review. Thanks!
Interesting choice !
"Good-morning, good-morning!" the General said
When we met him last week on the way to the line.
Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
"He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack
As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
* * * * * *
But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
Written at Denmark Hill Hospital, April 1917 - she says, reciting from memory...
It drives me mad when anyone recites that one aloud and doesn't leave a pause before that final, bitter line...
Thanks, Nancy!
Nice, Michele. It does need a pause. Thanks for the backstory!
Many thanks from a small cottage in Wales.
Thank you, Jackie! It's a wonderful book.
You're welcome - me and my Sassoonery... ;-D
I'm very excited to get my hands on this one -- as I love the classic, canonical compilations -- and I'm thrilled it's one of the nominated Cybils poetry titles. I'm sure my kids will be equally pleased when we finally get hold of it...
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