100 Best Poems for Children
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
100 Best Poems for Children
By (Author) Roger McGough
Illustrated by Sheila Moxley
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
4th December 2002
3rd October 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
821.920809282
Physical Properties
Paperback
144
Width 198mm, Height 262mm, Spine 9mm
528g
Description
A wonderful collection of contemporary and classic poems chosen by children from schools around the UK. Roger McGough made the final selection and wrote the introduction.
Author Bio
Roger McGough (External Editor) Roger McGough was a member of the group Scaffold in the 1960s when he contributed poems to the Penguin title The Mersey Sound, which has since sold over a million copies and is now available as a Penguin Classic. He has published many books of poems for children and adults, and both his Collected Poems (2004) and Selected Poems (2006) are also available in Penguin. He presents Poetry Please on Radio 4 and is President of the Poetry Society. He was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2001 and with a CBE in 2005 for services to literature.
