"Do you know what is wrong with people who never read nursery rhymes? I will tell you. When little boys and girls grow bigger and older, they should grow from the outside, leaving a little boy in the middle; even when they are quite grown up, the little child that once they were should be within them. But some unlucky people grow older from inside and so grow old through and through."
We have been reading several poetry books as a family. The book Honey for a Child's
Heart has a section about Poetry which inspired me to get back on track with reading the children poetry aloud. We're currently reading "The World of Christopher Robin" by A.A. Milne as a family and we love the silliness of them.Some other wonderful poetry books aside from our favorite Dr. Suess:
Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books- mostly nursery rhymes, but pictures are magnificent!
Works by Edward Lear:
The owl and the pussycat
A book of nonsense
There was an Old Man--: A Gallery of Nonsense Rhymes
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets
Hilaire Belloc:
Cautionary Tales for children
Robert Louis Stevenson:
A Child's Book of Verses
What wonderful children's poetry books do you have to add to this list?
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