5 must-read childrens books like Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People by Walter de la Mare

Cover of Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People by Walter de la Mare

Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

By: Walter de la Mare

3.77

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A beloved classic of children’s poetry “ Only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enou…

"Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!"

-Walter de la Mare, Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

If you liked the childrens plot in Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People by Walter de la Mare , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake

1. James and the Giant Peach

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.03

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that loo… read more

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"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans."

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"- ¡Lo que haces es reptar! - Me deslizo, dijo orgulloso el Gusano. - Eres un bicho viscoso, replicó el Ciempipes. - No soy un bicho viscoso - dijo el Gusano -. Soy una criatura útil y apreciada. Preg…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed abou…"

-Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach

Cover of Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3) by Christopher Paolini

2. Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

By: Christopher Paolini

4.10

Format: 748 pages, Hardcover

Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide. It's been only months since Eragon first utte… read more

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"A true warrior,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"Die puny human!"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"I already have one Sheepbiter here,"

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

"Pain is pain. It needs no description."

-Christopher Paolini, Brisingr (The Inheritance Cycle, #3)

Cover of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

3. Just So Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The B… read more

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4. A Child's Garden of Verses

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Tasha Tudor

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

All the joys and sorrows, fears and fantasies of an imaginative solitary child are brought together… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Thursday's Child

By: Noel Streatfeild

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

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  • childrens

6. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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7. The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)

By: Ernest H. Shepard , A.A. Milne

3.88

Format: None pages,

This deluxe edition of The House At Pooh Corneris the perfect way to celebrate the enduring popular… read more

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Cover of Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People by Walter de la Mare

8. Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

By: Walter de la Mare

3.77

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A beloved classic of children’s poetry “ Only the rarest kind of best in anything can be good enou… read more

Similar categories in Walter de la Mare's Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People book and Walter de la Mare's Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

  • poetry
  • childrens
"Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!"

-Walter de la Mare, Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Young People

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