Popular, well-known poetry: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Death, be not proud, The Raven, The Road Not Taken, plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Browning, Keats, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, and many others.

Charming stories — brimming with humor, whimsy and imagination — include an Algonquin tale of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog; The Meeting of the Wild Animals, a Tsimshian myth recounting how all the animals came to fear the porcupine; The Man Who Married the Moon a Pueblo story; others. 6 full-page illustrations.

Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter, Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Eugene Field's Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Emily Dickinson's I' m Nobody Who are you?, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Swing, many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type.