101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice
(Paperback, Unabridged edition)
Publishing Details
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice
By (Author) Carol Ann Duffy
Illustrated by Emily Gravett
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan Children's Books
1st April 2013
14th March 2013
Unabridged edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
821.008
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 129mm, Height 196mm, Spine 15mm
164g
Description
A beautiful poetry collection chosen by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett.
Author Bio
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread and Forward Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. In 2005 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Rapture. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Emily Gravett is twice winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestle Children's Book Prize Bronze Award for Wolves and Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears.
