Green Glass Beads : A Collection of Poems for Girls (Paperback)

A beautiful anthology of poems for girls, from William Shakespeare to Adrienne Rich

A lovely collection of classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives, these poems are arranged by theme. Themes range from Friends to School, from Birth and Death to Nymphs, Mermaids, Fairies, and Witches. Poets include Dickinson, Plath, Milton, Lord Tennyson, Yeats, Auden, Keats, Cummings, Barrett Browning, Frost, and Whitman. Beloved author Jacqueline Wilson has taken great delight in selecting and arranging her favorite poems for this book, making it a truly personal collection. There are poems that will incite smiles, laughs, frowns, and tears, and that will stay with readers for the rest of their lives.