Description:This stunning, fully-illustrated collection offers a dazzling array of narrative poems----each of which tells an unforgettable tale. Readers will find poems to suit every taste---from stirring, heroic verses to magical fables, and from cautionary tales to humorous tongue-twisters. "Old masters" such as William Wadsworth Longfellow and Lewis Carroll are paired with great twentieth century poets such as W.H. Auden & Roald Dahl. Contemporary poets such as Tony Mitton & Kevin Crossley-Holland (who introduces each poem) are featured as well. A one-of-a-kind anthology for every child's bookshelf.Heroic, tragic, fantastical, funny, cautionary, and mythical...Whatever your choice of
story,
there’s a poem here for you, because Once Upon a Poem brings together some of the best stories ever told in
verse!
From the
magnificent
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the
magical
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll; to Roald Dahl’s
wicked
retelling of Goldilocks and a
rip-roaring
rap version of Prince Theseus by Tony Mitton.And what’s more, each poem has been stunningly illustrated in colour and championed by some of the very best of today’s authors: David Almond ∙ Philip Ardagh ∙ Avi ∙ Eoin Colfer ∙ Sharon Creech ∙ Kevin Crossley-Holland ∙ Cornelia Funke ∙ Morris Gleitzman ∙ Eva Ibbotson ∙ Michael Morpurgo ∙ Mary Pope Osborne ∙ Philip Pullman ∙ J. K. Rowling ∙ G. P. Taylor ∙ Jacqueline WilsonWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once upon a Poem : Favourite Poems That Tell Stories. To get started finding Once upon a Poem : Favourite Poems That Tell Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
128
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
The Chicken House
Release
2004
ISBN
1904442315
Once upon a Poem : Favourite Poems That Tell Stories
Description: This stunning, fully-illustrated collection offers a dazzling array of narrative poems----each of which tells an unforgettable tale. Readers will find poems to suit every taste---from stirring, heroic verses to magical fables, and from cautionary tales to humorous tongue-twisters. "Old masters" such as William Wadsworth Longfellow and Lewis Carroll are paired with great twentieth century poets such as W.H. Auden & Roald Dahl. Contemporary poets such as Tony Mitton & Kevin Crossley-Holland (who introduces each poem) are featured as well. A one-of-a-kind anthology for every child's bookshelf.Heroic, tragic, fantastical, funny, cautionary, and mythical...Whatever your choice of
story,
there’s a poem here for you, because Once Upon a Poem brings together some of the best stories ever told in
verse!
From the
magnificent
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the
magical
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll; to Roald Dahl’s
wicked
retelling of Goldilocks and a
rip-roaring
rap version of Prince Theseus by Tony Mitton.And what’s more, each poem has been stunningly illustrated in colour and championed by some of the very best of today’s authors: David Almond ∙ Philip Ardagh ∙ Avi ∙ Eoin Colfer ∙ Sharon Creech ∙ Kevin Crossley-Holland ∙ Cornelia Funke ∙ Morris Gleitzman ∙ Eva Ibbotson ∙ Michael Morpurgo ∙ Mary Pope Osborne ∙ Philip Pullman ∙ J. K. Rowling ∙ G. P. Taylor ∙ Jacqueline WilsonWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Once upon a Poem : Favourite Poems That Tell Stories. To get started finding Once upon a Poem : Favourite Poems That Tell Stories, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.