Another treasure of a book.
It’s an oldie (published in 1964) we picked up secondhand. Hardcover. Yellowed pages. Black-and-white line drawings. Musty-smelling.
It sat neglected on the shelf for a few years before I even opened it. And what a pity!
Trapped inside, unappreciated was a wonderful anthology of poems about creation, about childhood, about love, about God.

Accompanied by Margery Gill’s illustrations, this selection of poems, verses, hymns and carols draws on the very best, including such well-known writers as A.A. Milne, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Isaac Watts, Charles and Mary Lamb, Eleanor Farjeon, Mrs C. F. Alexander (of all things bright and beautiful fame), Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter de la Mare, Robert Frost, Christina Rosetti, John Bunyan and that prolific writer whose sheer output I marvelled over as a child leafing through the pages of the hymn book, Anon.