Designed to appeal to children who are entering the world of poetry for the first time, this collection combines the traditional with the contemporary. It could be used equally well at home or in the book corner of a primary classroom. The collection includes poems by such classic children's writers as A. A. Milne, Ogden Nash, Christina Rosetti, and Edward Lear. It contains selections of various poetic forms, such as limericks and tongue-twisters, and nursery rhymes. It also includes poems about giants and dragons, parents and neighbors, spiders and alleycats, food and parties, as well as poems about naughty children, poems to make a child laugh, and poems for bedtime. The collection is also lavishly illustrated. Includes an index of titles and first lines. (NKA)