A Poem for Every Night of the Year

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Two stars because it’s a nice idea and is well thought out, with a little bit of background info for each poem. I won’t say I’ve became a poem lover overnight, but this was a great stepping stone into a world previously unknown.

She was hardly ten years older than him, but both alarmed and entertained him with rhymes of morality, terrible disasters, wonderful silliness and sheer colour, none of which he was getting in his everyday education. Along with its companion volume, A Poem For Every Night of the Year, this is a wonderful way to introduce poetry to students of any age, and to give them a broad selection of poets from Shakespeare to AA Milne to Sappho to William Carlos Williams to Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Moreover they are self-consciously read in the most different dynamic to the songs they are based on. Something I really liked where the comments that explained the poem a little bit, or that give the time period it was written so you could have some context. A friend bought this for me for Christmas last year, and I can honestly say it’s one of the best presents I’ve ever received.In the meantime, I’m using my new regular-nightly-reading-of-something-that’s-not-a-novel habit to finish Aesop’s Fables, which I started over a year ago and failed to keep up with when I discovered I could only read a few fables at a time (out of hundreds). This is a book of poems marketed at children, but the selection is suitable for everyone and includes work by Shakespeare, Keats, Blake and Benjamin Zephaniah. I found this was perfect for in the morning or at the end of the day and students also volunteered to read some of the poems out to the whole class which was brilliant for their reading and when it came to speech work in English. I like the idea of this book and I have read a poem a day of it (mostly), I just found a lot of the poems to be suited for younger readers.

With parents and grandparents in mind, occupied with back to school issues, I grouped the more educational rhymes into September, relieved by action songs in October, a little history for the longer nights of November and then into Christmas fables for December. Robert Louis Stevenson sits alongside Langston Hughes; Lewis Caroll with Carol Ann Duffy; AA Milne with David Harmer. Every night, if you want, you can soothe them with lullabies, educate them (gently) on how to count or learn history, or merely enjoy some slapstick knockabout humour.Just by nursery rhymes alone, we learn so much about local geography, history, local traditions, and famous people of the time. This could have been a wonderful book if it was printed on some ordinary paper with some colour prints of art work to illustrate the poetry.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives.Ich verstehe die Logik dahinter gleich mehrere Werke einer Person vorstellen zu wollen, aber ich fand das nicht besonders abwechslungsreich. There are poems written about historical events, like the sinking of the Titanic or the seminal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in America when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus. There were also poems by Walter de la Mare that brought back memories of childhood, as he was my Grampy's favorite poet. I felt the editor was trying to appeal to two audiences, US and UK, on the whole, rather than being globally inclusive and that didn't work too well for me. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.