A Poem a Day

by Adrian Mitchell

A wonderful collection of poetry for young readers. Ages 6+.

Genres: Poetry

304 pages, Hardcover

First published August 23, 2001

About the author

Adrian Mitchell, FRSL, was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him the British Mayakovsky.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Poetry is Great & The Illustrations are Beautiful.

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

'Ive been shopping' is a great repetitive poem for children aged around 10/11. It is a very true poem with the quote at the end 'to my own house broke again', as when people go shopping they spend money therefore this is a true fact.

[CantKids · Rating 5 out of 5]

The kids take it in turns to pick a page for me to read, we often get through 10+ poems a night this way - the illustrations have led to some interesting rabbit trails, such as researching castanets and flamenco.

[Gabriella · Rating 4 out of 5]

- 367 day poems: leap years
- Date for poem/ months: Jan 3rd
- Fairly short poems: nonsense words, otherwise easy to read
- All poems accompanied by illustrations either black and white or colour
- Ends on Shakespeare: The Tempest (Prospero): ending speech in the play to end the book of poetry
- Index of first lines ad poems: easy to find specific poem due to poems following dates: go to specific date for an occasion
- Short biography of authors and illustrators and suggested texts