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Poetry - Lyric Genre

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Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:

Peacock Pie a Book of Rhymes (1953)

A collection of poems. This is a larger format than the 1946 printing.

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

All Day Long: An Anthology of Poetry for Children (1954)

A poetry anthology for children.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Joan Hassall

Songs of Mr. Small (1954)

Twenty-one songs of Mr. Small.

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Farm Stories (1956)

Fifty stories about farm activities with 100 color illustrations by Tenggren. This version may only have forty stories.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Best in Children’s Books Volume 3 (1957)

A collection of stories, verses and articles, some of which have new illustrations. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Prefabulous Animiles (1957)

A collection of poems about fabulous animals.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): James Reeves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

The Wandering Moon (1957)

A collection of poetry for children.

Author(s): James Reeves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Children Everywhere (1958)

A collection of stories and poems about children around the world for older readers.

A Golden Land (1958)

A wide ranging anthology of poetry and prose.

I Went for a Walk (1958)

Pictures, poems and songs.

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The World of Christopher Robin (1958)

An omnibus containing When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, with new color plates by E. H. Shepard. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

At Our House (1959)

A Read-and-Sing book about things around the house.

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Junior Classics Volume 10: Poetry, Reading Guide, Indexes (1959)

A collection of stories, tales and poems for boys and girls age six to sixteen.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty
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The Penny Fiddle: Poems for Children (1960)

A collection of poems for children.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Robert Graves
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

When I Grow Up (1960)

A song for a boy and a song for a girl about what they might become when they grow up. A Read-and-Sing book.

Author(s): Clyde Robert Bulla
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Canterbury Tales (1961)

A selection of Chaucer’s tales for children, in modern English.

Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)

Poems that shed further light on middle-earth.

Author(s): J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

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