Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide...

A collection of humorous poems and drawings. This special edition contains twelve new poems.

A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.

The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.

A selection of seasonal verses explores the elements and activities of the changing seasons, from snowflakes to sandcastles.

Tiddle the cat is a very mischievous cat; he gets up to all sorts of things. He certainly is the cat with nine lives. He runs rings around Mr & Mrs Biddle getting into all sorts of scrapes not just with the Biddle's but with the tom cats and the lady cats. He even had a run in with the dog from next door, poor Tiddle.Tiddle is a very playful cat playing with his toy mouse and the feather from Mrs Biddle's feather brush. But when Tiddle isn't feeling...