Книга: Kaye Webb «I Like This Poem: A Collection of Best-loved Poems»

I Like This Poem: A Collection of Best-loved Poems

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Highwaymen and naughty children, sharks and baboons, the Snitterjipe and the Jabberwocky, all have their part to play. Each and every poem in this treasure chest of family favourites was chosen by a child for other children. With poems from William Wordsworth and Christina Rosetti to Roald Dahl and Michael Rosen, there really is something for everyone. Classics to savour and new favourites to discover! This is a classic anthology to treasure forever.

Издательство: "Puffin" (1980)

ISBN: 978-0-14-031295-9

Kaye Webb

Kaye Webb (26 January, 1914 – 16 January, 1996) was a British journalist and publisher. She was editor of Puffin Books between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded the Puffin Club, which she ran until 1981. As a journalist she worked on publications including "Picture Post", "Lilliput" and the "News Chronicle", and later edited the "Young Elizabethan". She was married three times, her third marriage (1948–67) being to Ronald Searle.

Kaye Webb's archive and working library can be found in the Seven Stories, the Centre for Children's Books collection, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and can be searched online. [http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo='kw')] .

References

Felicity Trotman, "Webb, (Kathleen) Kaye (1914–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60767, accessed 6 Feb 2008]

External links

* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19960118/ai_n9637841 Obituary] , "The Independent", 18 January 1996.
* [http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=7&dsqSearch=(((text)=%27kaye%27)AND((text)=%27webb%27)) Kathleen (Kaye) Webb] , Seven Stories archive index

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