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Shades Of Green
  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448120062
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Shades Of Green



A dazzling anthology of poems for children of 9+, and winner of the Signal Poetry Award.

A wide-ranging collection of nature poems for children, chosen by Anne Harvey. This is the perfect collection for introducing children to the magic of poetry.

Includes poems from Thomas Hardy, Spike Milligan, Laurie Lee, Ian Serraillier, John Betjemen, William Blake, Geoffery Chaucer, Emily Dickinson, Philip Larkin, Helen Dunmore, and many more.

  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448120062
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

About the authors

Anne Harvey

Anne Harvey is a broadcaster and poetry and literary anthologist. She lives in Ealing and has two children and two grand children.

John Lawrence

Tony Mitton is an award-winning poet, whose gently mesmerising, often humorous poetry is irresistible to children and adults alike. He is an extremely versatile author, writing story poems and shorter verse with skill and wit. Tony does many author events, school visits and poetry readings and always leaves his audience entranced. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.

John Lawrence was born in Hastings, studied at Hastings School of Art, followed by military service in West Africa, and more study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts (now Central St. Martin's). Since then he has worked as an illustrator and a lecturer at Brighton School of Art, Camberwell School of Art and Cambridge School of Art. John has illustrated over 150 books and is one of the leading wood-block engraving illustrators in the world.

Praise for Shades Of Green

A dazzling anthology from the doyenne of anthologists.

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