My First Oxford Book of Animal Poems

John Foster. Oxford University Press, USA, $22.95 (96pp) ISBN 978-0-19-276269-6

Another anthology, My First Oxford Book of Animal Poems, compiled by John Foster, catalogues various creature by habitat. Sections such as ""Around the House and in the Garden"" and ""Beside the Sea, Beneath the Waves,"" include more than 90 poems by writers as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Emily Bront , Jane Yolen and Margaret Wise Brown. (June)

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