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Poetry - Lyric Genre
Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:
The Isle of Gramarye (1970)
An anthology of the poetry of magic.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
City Poems (1971)
A collection of the author’s poems about city life.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Florida, My Florida (1971)
A collection of poems about her adopted state.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Complete Poems for Children (1973)
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (1973)
The object of this collection is "to make available in one place the classics of children's poetry: that small satchelful of verse whose existence constitutes one of the pleasing advantages of being born to the English tongue."
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
None
Bilbo’s Last Song Poster (1974)
Bilbo Baggins’ farewell to Middle Earth.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Let’s Marry Said the Cherry, and Other Nonsense Poems (1974)
A collection of nonsense poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Arcadian Ballads (1977)
A collection of poems based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Author(s):
James Reeves
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Blueberries Lavender: Songs of the Farmers’ Children (1977)
A collection of poems about life on the farm.
Author(s):
Nancy Dingman Watson
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (1977)
Six stories and poems with a different illustrator for each on the subject of ‘impossible.’
Author(s):
Norma Farber
Illustrator(s):
And others
Tomie dePaola
Trina Schart Hyman
Hilary Knight
Three Centuries of Nursery Rhymes and Poetry for Children (1977)
This is a revised and expanded edition of an exhibition catalog.
Author(s):
Iona Opie
Peter Opie
Illustrator(s):
Various
A Child’s Christmas in Wales (1978)
This prose poem ranks in the best poetry of the twentieth century. It should be heard first as read by the author, then memorized with the aid of this book.
Author(s):
Dylan Thomas
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (1978)
Whose woods there are, I think I know.
His house is in the vilage, though;
Author(s):
Robert Frost
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Tales of Waybeyond (1979)
A collection of stories in verse about the animal inhabitants of the Village of Waybeyond.
Author(s):
Eileen Hunter
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Acts of Light (1980)
Author(s):
Emily Dickinson
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Moments: Poems About the Seasons (1980)
A selection of poems about the seasons.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Poems and Stories (1980)
This collection includes the fairy stories as well as many of the poems.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
I Can Fly (1981)
A little boy and a little girl can be anything they can imagine.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Jan Brett
Pigeon Cubes and Other Verse (1982)
A collection of light verse.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Snowman Sniffles and Other Verse (1983)
A collection of light verse.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
N. M. Bodecker
Illustrator(s):
N. M. Bodecker