Mini Collection: Poems for Children

Compiled by Tig Thomas. "Mini Collection: Poems for Children" is a small book in an attractive slipcase featuring a wonderful selection of poems for children aged 5+. The book is perfect for children to carry around with them to dip in and out of whenever they please. Attractively illustrated throughout, this charming gift book is ideal to read and sing with young children.

"Mini Collection: Poems for Children":

• Small, portable format;
• Classic poetry, beautifully illustrated;
• Themed sections.

Fun and nonsense

• The Triantiwontigongolope
• The poor little toe
• Some puzzles
• The man with the beard
• The new vestments
• The cats have come to tea
• Topsy turvy world
• I'd rather have fingers
• The pelican chorus
• The owl and the pussy-cat
• The old man in a tree
• The old man of St. Bees
• Aiken drum
• Jabberwocky
• Calico pie
• The man who went mad
• The man from Nantucket
• What I said
• There was an old lady
• Betty Botter bought some butter
• The young lady of Norway
• An Accident
• The duck and the Kangaroo
• The cow and the chiken
• A ride
• Me and my brother
• The old man who said hush
• The person of ware
• The young person in green
• The Pobble who has no toes
• The person of Tarentum
• Riddle: two legs sat upon three legs
• A big shoe
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• Wibbleton and Wobbleton
• The man of Khartoum
• The music of your voice
• Jerry hall
• The honey bee
• Robin the Bobbin
• Amelia
• Why?
• Mr. Toad
• The duel

Enchanted lands

• Elf man
• The owl
• The elf and the dormouse
• Moonlit apples
• Up and down
• I'll follow you
• Sea shell
• Meg Merrilies
• Nine little goblins
• From Robin Hood
• Minnie and winnie
• Boy-dreams
• The four princesses
• The land of counterpane
• Wynken, Blynken and Nod
• A fairy in Armour
• Queen Mab
• Mr. Nobody
• From the mermaid
• The merman
• From two fairies in a garden
• From the butterfly's ball ans the grasshopper's feast
• My fairy
• The fairy pigwiggin arms for the fight
• The elves' goodbye
• Widly nights
• The last voyage of the fairies
• From the masque of Oberon
• A visit from St. Nicholas
• Oh! Dear!
• Nonsense
• Once

All the day long

• Good morning
• Hair brushing
• From poem to her daughter
• Baby mine
• My shadow
• Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore
• From a woman's questions
• The dumb soldier
• A birthday song
• A nursery song
• The teacher
• Quick, quick
• The story of Johny Head-in-Air
• Magpies
• Rose and the Lily
• From a boy's aspirations
• A boy's song
• A little song of life
• The sun
• The camel's hump
• Seven times one
• Apples
• At the zoo
• The use and abuse of toads
• Dog problems
• At the seaside
• Ice cream
• Chopping up food
• The story of Fidgety Philip
• A gustatory achievement
• My treasures
• My books
• Extremes
• The worm
• My kingdom
• Little Tommy Tucker
• Wash the dishes
• Coffee and tea
• The lost doll
• The unseen playmate
• A good play
• The lamplighter
• The children's hour
• I see the moon
• Goodnight, sleep tight
• The land of story books
• A good boy
• Thumbling
• Brother and sister
• The ferry of shadowtown
• Bedtime in summer
• Young night-thought
• Sleep, baby
• My bed is a boat
• Planning

A wonderful world

• Caterpillar
• Butterfly
• Spring, the sweet spring
• From strange meetings
• Baby seed song
• All the year round
• The moon's the north wind's cookie
• From Karamos
• Wind
• From rain in summer
• From ponte al Mare, Pisa
• Days in the month
• Seal lullaby
• The ant
• My heart's in the highlands
• Duck's ditty
• A lark
• The cat of cats
• Over in the meadow
• The dog
• From a make believe
• Bird songs
• A friend in the garden
• What became of them?
• The little turtle
• From to a butterfly
• The friendly cow
• The ant explorer
• The fox
• Kitten's complaint
• Commissariat camels
• Milk for the cat
• Dapple grey
• Donkey
• Squirrel
• To a squirrel at Kyle-Na-No
• From the spider to the fly
• The seasons
• The south wind
• The camel's complaint
• The little ladybird
• The wind has such a rainy sound
• Blow, wind, blow
• Rain
• The snail
• It
• If you should meet a crocodile
• The little cock-sparrow
• Snow
• Jack frost
• Hospitality
• February Twilight
• Summer is coming
• From summer days
• The flowers
• What is pink?
• What does the bee do?
• The bee's wedding
• The wonderful world

Index of poets
Index of first lines