POEMS CHOSEN BY CHILDREN
in association with the Federation Of
Children's Book Groups
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Illustrated by Alan Marks
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Algy met a bear Anon
The adventures of Carla Johnson by Jackie Kay
Adventures of Isabel by Ogden Nash
Astronaut by Berlie Doherty
Bad Sir Brian Botany by A A Milne
from The ballad ofKon-Tiki by Ian Serraillier
from Beowulf Anon
Cows on the beach by Matthew Sweeney
Cross Channel by John Whitworth
Dauntless Ditnble by Jack Prelutsky
Desk by Dave Calder
The Driver by Joan Aiken
The eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Falling up by Shel Silverstein
First day at school by Roger McGough
The first men on Mercury by Edwin Morgan
Getting back home by Jenny Joseph
Heather by Ezra Pound
/ am fatting off a mountain by Jack Prelutsky
/ saw a jolly hunter by Charles Causley
/ started Early by Emily Dickinson
from The Jumblies by Edward Lear
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The lake isle oflnnisfree by WB Yeats
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Leaving forever by Denise Levertov
The listeners by Walter de la Mare
Lone dog by Irene Mcleod
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The magic box by Kit Wright
Minnie and Mattie by Christina Rossetti
Mister fox Anon
The music by Matthew Sweeney
The night before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
The night is darkening round me
by Emily Bronte
De magic poem by Benjamin Zephaniah
The Owl and the Pussy-cat by Edward Lear
from The prelude by William Wordsworth
Remember, remember by Norman Silver
The rescue by Hal Summers
The ride-by-nights by Walter de la Mare
The river's story by Brian Patten
Royal tea by Benjamin Zephaniah
Shed in space by Gareth Owen
Sitty old baboon by Spike Milligan
from Skimbleshanks: the railway cat
by T.S. Eliot
The skyfoogle by Michael Rosen
Something told the wild geese
by Rachel Field
from The song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Space shuttle by Judith Nicholls
Stargrazer by Robert Hull
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
by Robert Frost
Surfboard life by Julie O'Callaghan
Today is very boring by Jack Prelutsky
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Tornado by Julie O'Callaghan
The train to Glasgow by Wilma Horsbrugh
A traveller's tale by Sandy Brownjohn
Twenty things needed for a game of football
on the local park by Paul Cookson
from Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wheelbarrow by Eleanor Farjeon
Why did the chicken by John Mole
Widdleton's roundabout for people who like
going round and hanging about
by Michael Rosen
Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field
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Special Thanks
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