Oxford Book of Poetry for Children
compiled by Edward Blishen
illustrated by Brian Wildsmith 1963
"...but a point about poetry (and no book must ever be allowed to suggest otherwise) is that there is a great richness and exciting quantity of it. This is a gathering, the gathering one collector might make on one beach on a single morning. I hope it will be found an enjoyable gathering- but I hope, too, that no one will suppose it is anything more. Behind each poem in this book are countless others, there for the looking: and my hope is that you will want to look for them- that this book, when it has done its work of giving pleasure, will go on to do its even more important work of making you impatient for more."
-Edward Blishen
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