In this enchanting collection, favourite bed-time songs for children - 'Rock-a-bye, Baby', 'Bye, Baby Bunting', 'Golden Slumbers' - mingle with less familiar lullabies from around the world.
Added to these are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to your little ones, from Brahms's 'Lullaby' to Gershwin's 'Summertime'; from Shakespeare's lullaby for the fairy queen Titania to Langston Hughes's lullaby for a 'night black baby'.
Here, too, are nursery rhymes, and poems for older children by a wide variety of authors - Walter de la Mare, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear,
T.S. Eliot and Ogden Nash, to name but a few.
Whether the intent is to soothe or to amuse, there is something here for every mood, every child, and the child in every adult.
Edited by:
Diana Secker Tesdell Imprint: Everyman's Library Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 23 Dimensions:
Height: 164mm,
Width: 111mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 227g ISBN:9781841597485 ISBN 10: 1841597481 Series:Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Pages: 256 Publication Date:24 April 2002 Recommended Age: From 0 to 5 years Audience:
Children/juvenile
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English as a second language
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of several short-story anthologies in the Everyman Pocket Classics series, including Christmas Stories, Lullabies and Poems for Children, Love Stories, Cat Stories and Stories from the Kitchen.