The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America (Oxford Books of Verse)
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In the tradition of Iona and Peter Opies Oxford Book of Childrens Verse comes this anthology by the award-winning poet and childrens book author Donald Hall. Bringing together "poems written for children and also poems written for anybody which children have enjoyed " the book includes anonymous works ballads and recitation pieces beginning with the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century. Hall has collected poems from Sunday School magazines Christmas annuals for children and childrens periodicals such as St. Nicholas and Youths Companion. Many marvelous writers some no longer remembered wrote almost every month for these nineteenth and twentieth century publications. In addition to the expected names of Longfellow and Whittier we find Sarah Josepha Hale ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") Mary Mapes Dodge (creator of Hans Brinker) and Palmer Cox (with his marvelous Brownies). Twentieth century authors abound: Ogden Nash T.S. Eliot John Updike Theodore Roethke to name just a few. The book concludes with the fabulous nonsense of present-day writers like Shel Silverstein and Nancy Willard. About the Editor: Donald Halls many books include The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes Kicking the Leaves and Ox-Cart Man which won the Caldecott Medal for childrens literature.
