Classic Poems for Children

Yoto Says: A beautiful collection of 36 children’s poems, filled with timeless rhymes from beloved British poets and authors

Dance with a lobster, telephone an elephant or knock on a moonlit door – this collection includes magical, macabre, dramatic, funny, bizarre, absurd, delightful, moving and charming poems by Lewis Carroll, A.A. Milne, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, Kenneth Grahame and many others. Readers such as Anton Lesser, Simon Russell-Beale and Timothy West bring the lines beautifully to life and make this an ideal introduction to some of the best-loved children’s poetry.

Track Listing:

1. The Lobster Quardille
   2. The Walrus and the Carpenter
   3. You Are Old, Father William
   4. Humpty Dumpty's Song
   5. Jabberwocky
   6. Little Trotty Wagtail
   7. The Bogus-Boo
   8. A Tragedy in Rhyme
   9. A Guinea Pig Song
   10. The Jumblies
   11. The Owl and the Pussy Cat
   12. Duck's Ditty
   13. There was an Old Man with a Beard
   14. Old Meg
   15. How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear
   16. There was a Naughty Boy
   17. At The Zoo
   18. Henry King
   19. The King's Breakfast
   20. There was a Little Girl
   21. The Snail
   22. Framed in a First-Storey Winder
   23. There was a Man of Double Deed
   24. The Cosmic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog
   25. Colonel Fazackerly
   26. Topsy-Turvy World
   27. The Listeners
   28. The Tyger
   29. The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens
   30. Bed in Summer
   31. Time to Rise
   32. My Shadow
   33. Wagtail and Baby
   34. Two Little Kittens
   35. If
   36. Eletelephony