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Poetry - Lyric Genre
Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:
Author! Author! (1962)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
None
The Flattered Flying Fish (1962)
A book of poems for children.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. V. Rieu
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
A Ring of Bells (1962)
A collection of poems by the British poet laureate.
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Author(s):
John Betjeman
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Shepherd Psalm (1962)
A setting of the 23rd Psalm:
The Lord is my true shepherd,
There is nothing I shall want..
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Amigo (1963)
Francisco tames a prairie dog, and Amigo tames a little boy.
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Author(s):
Byrd Baylor Schweitzer
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Cricket in a Thicket (1963)
A collection of nature poems.
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Author(s):
Aileen Fisher
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Under the Sun (1964)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles from Elizabethan magazine and other sources.
Author(s):
John Verney
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Quentin Blake
C. Walter Hodges
Ronald Searle
John Verney
Brian Wildsmith
Et al
A Child’s Calendar (1965)
A poem for each month of the year.
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Author(s):
John Updike
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
The Life I Live: Collected Poems (1965)
The author’s collected poetry.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (1966)
This collection includes The Ballad of the White Horse as well as the shorter poems.
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
None
The Tolkien Reader (1966)
This collection includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Beginning-To-Read Poetry: Selected from Original Sources (1967)
First poems for young children.
Author(s):
Sally Clithero
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Christopher Robin Book of Verse (1967)
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Here and There: One Hundred Poems about Places (1967)
An anthology of poems dealing with places, both real and imaginary.
Author(s):
Elinor Parker
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Lois Lenski’s Christmas Stories (1968)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Debbie Herself (1969)
Tells about Debbie’s daily activities in verse.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1969)
This is a revised and enlarged edition of a very popular collection of poems first published in 1913.
Author(s):
Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
A Riot of Quiet (1969)
Author(s):
Virginia Sicotte
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Home from the Sea (1970)
A selection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson for young readers.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone