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