The thematic range is expansive, covering the habitats, behaviors, and unique characteristics of various species. Some poems delve into the delicate intricacies of butterfly wings, while others roam the savannas with the majesty of lions. The collection offers a poetic Noah's Ark, welcoming readers aboard a vessel of words that sails through oceans, jungles, deserts, and skies, introducing them to the rich tapestry of animal life. The language employed is both evocative and educational. The poets seamlessly blend scientific curiosity with artistic expression, making this collection not only a feast for the senses but also an opportunity for readers to deepen their understanding of the animal kingdom. The words become a bridge between the artistic and the informative, fostering a holistic appreciation for the wonders of the natural world. Throughout the collection, there is a sense of reverence and awe for the diversity of life on Earth. The poems celebrate the interconnectedness of all living beings, highlighting the role each species plays in the intricate dance of ecosystems. This reverence extends beyond the physical attributes of animals to their symbolic and cultural significance, enriching the anthology with layers of meaning.

In this celebration of our Earth, distinguished anthologist Wendy Cooling has chosen poems to make children look, think, and ask questions. Why are trees so important? How are motorways damaging our countryside? What can we do about rubbish? What can we do to protect our Earth for the future? Strong, colorful illustrations and a lavish new imitlin cover make this a gift book with a difference. Poets include Grace Nicholls, Thomas Hardy, Benjamin Zephaniah, Alfred Lord Tennyson and other poets from all over the world.

A little boy's animal friends help him discover the poetry to be found in nature.

A collection of never-before-seen poetry and art, by an assortment of authors and illustrators. From a shoe-shopping centipede to an endearing baby flamingo to a stealthy barracuda, the characters dazzle. Three seek and find activities in the back matter makes this book a great addition for teachers, librarians, and families for poetry month!

"Exquisite . . . A powerful example of how to carry the things that define us without being broken by them." --WASHINGTON POST

"Urban Nature" celebrates nature's resiliency and captures the many faces of wildness in the city with poems by more than 130 emerging and recognized poets.

What do you get when you cross . . . A toaster with a toad? A tuba with a baboon? A clock with an octopus? A hat with a chicken? An umbrella with an elephant? Why . . . A Pop-up Toadster A Tubaboon The Clocktopus A Hatchicken and . . . The Bold Umbrellaphant And what do you get when you cross this book with a kid? Why . . . The Happy Kibook!

The biggest collection of animal poetry every published.

Full-color photographs accompany two hundred poems about animals.

Poetry. A PAGE FROM THE WONDERS OF LIFE ON EARTH is a book with a coherent vision of nature--constructed or framed, both in the present and in the recent past--through zoos, aviaries, formal gardens, menageries, and books like the Time Life one named in the title. Informed by the author's grand tour of these zoos and gardens, these poems provide a strong lens for considering the many paradoxes of inter-species relations; they open up the possibility of honest, unsentimental elegy. The book is also a model of what might be called investigative poetry, taking the poet's combination of perceptual acuity, craft, music and sensibility into these richly troubled places (prisons of, monuments to, museums for the lost natural world) where "arcades sell postcards of old photographs of the arcades," and where questions of what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art are tangibly in the air. "Bolster's work demonstrates a surety of vision supported by an insider's eye for the telling aberrant detail everywhere matched by her impeccable ear"--Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail.