William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this
charming anthology of 200 poems--first published in 1969--are among
literature's most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa's appealing illustrations
depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an
engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all
its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow's "Christmas Bells," Lewis Carroll's "The
Melancholy Pig," and Eugene Fields' "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," along
with proverbs, limericks, nursery rhymes, and folk songs.