Other editions of book First Poems of Childhood

Tasha Tudor has illustrated with grace and delicacy this collection of favorite poems for the very young. Animals, holidays, the seasons, farm and forest, the magic world of fantasy--all the world of childhood is beautifully illumined by Miss Tudor's genius. Here are the verses of such favorite poets of childhood as Robert Louis Stevenson, Edward Lear, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Eugene Field, and many others. For it's wonderful words, and for Tasha Tudor's warm and colorful expression of the beauty that is poetry, this should be every child's first book.