100 Poems Every Child -and adult- Should Know

by Valeska Matti

This is a book of poetry for everyone, and not a -only- aimed at children, as the title might suggest. It is an excuse for adults to buy it for their entire family and discover, together, the magic of Classic Poetry. Also great as a gift or to enrich your own collection.

This carefully compiled anthology aims to bring Classic Poetry back to your night and coffee tables. It will give you and your families a great excuse to spend quality time together, reading, interpreting, debating, and discovering how magical words can be.

The 100 Poems in this collection are distributed in seven themes:
Of Life and Love
Of Earth and Sky
Of Flora and Fauna
Of Simple Things
Of Common People and not so Common Virtues
Of Real Adventures and not so Real Tales
Of Faith, Sadness, and Sorrow
You will find masterpieces from the following famous authors, amongst many others:

Alexander Pope - Charles Dickens - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -Robert Burns - Rudyard Kipling - Felicia Hemans - Lewis Carrol -Alfred Tennyson - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson - Anne Bradstreet - Robert Browning - Eugene Field - Walt Whitman - Sara Teasdale

You will find:
Simple and short poems such as A Word, by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Love declarations such as The Maiden, by Sara Teasdale
Profound messages such as If…, by Rudyard Kipling
Humorous fantasies such as The Duel, by Eugene Field
Historical tales such as The Landing of the Pilgrims, by Felicia Hemans
Adventures with a dose of tragedy such as O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman
Pieces which became popular songs such as Soon May the Wellerman Come, the anonymous New Zealand Folk Song
...and 93 more!

Genres: Poetry

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2022

About the author

You can visit www.valeskamatti.com (still in construction :) ) for more details!

Reviews

[Marta Cleverly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I experienced falling in love with poetry again. The selection is wonderful! The rhymes and meters, the words and tones. It truly felt like coming home.
Positively delightful. I haven’t read any poems that weren’t only about love or sorrow or some internal struggle. But in this, I read about those things and ships and maidens and wonderful scenery. The poems are simple and clear.

[Erica Baxter · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with most poetry anthologies, some of the selected poems are better than others. Overall, it was a decent selection; however, I don't necessarily agree with the target audience on some of the poems. As a book marketed mainly for children, I think some of the poems are too complex for a child to understand without a teacher or adult breaking them down and explaining them.

[Maria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Collections of poems that claim to be definitive, poems everyone should know, always fall short of that goal because there is so much poetry and so much relies on the taste of the individual, but I will say that I enjoyed most of the poetry in this book and it was a quick and easy way to get back into reading poetry when I haven't been reading any in awhile. I especially liked how it was divided into themed sections that built from simple, light reflections to more complex thoughts.

[Kathleen Newton · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of these were pretty obscure and specific (like to England), but I marked up the ebook enough that I intend to buy it. There are some gems in here.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this.

[Nichole · Rating 1 out of 5]

You know what makes poetry really enjoyable? A virtual voice to read it all-- including the punctuation!

[Donald Owens II · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, you should.

[The_J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perhaps not all of the offerings make it over the proclaimed bar, but some are simply spectacular.

[Eunice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poetry

This book brought back many happy memories of my childhood. My grandfather and mother often quoted from some of the poems and I still recognize them today. Others were completely new and introduced me to ports of like to read more in the future. I love poetry and to be able to have a collection I can revisit is a good asset. Hopefully, our children and grandchildren can learn these as well. Rekindling a love of poetry and reading is important to a world that moves on hyperdrive.