Poems to Live Your Life By

Description
In Poems to Live Your Life By, award-winning author and illustrator Chris Riddell, has selected his favourite classic and modern poems about life, death and everything in between.
This gorgeously illustrated collection includes forty-six poems and is divided into sections covering: musings, youth, family, love, imaginings, nature, war, and endings. Chris Riddell brings them to life with his exquisite, intricate artwork in this beautiful anthology.
This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses from William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, W. B. Yeats, and Christina Rossetti sit alongside poems from Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Carol Ann Duffy, Neil Gaiman, and Roger McGough to create the ultimate collection.
Also available: Poems to Save the World With and Poems to Fall in Love With.
About this Author
Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate, is an accomplished artist and the political cartoonist for the Observer. His books for children have enjoyed great acclaim and won a number of major prizes, including the 2001, 2004 and 2016 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals. In 2013, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse won the Costa Children's Book Award. His work for Macmillan includes the middle grade series Ottoline and The Cloud Horse Chronicles Duology, as well as the picture books The Emperor of Absurdia, Wendel and the Robots, and Once Upon a Wild Wood. He is also the illustrator of The Big Amazing Poetry Book: 52 Weeks of Poetry from 52 Brilliant Poets. Chris has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his illustration and charity work. He lives in Brighton, England with his family.
Reviews
"This collection of poems and songs also comes with beautiful illustrations - so is a great coffee table book. Pick it up anytime for something through-provoking and feel good. If you tend to find poetry a little heavy, this is a great choice as the art helps to make things a little more accessible." Metro
"[Riddell's] also a life-long lover of poetry and in Poems to Live Your Life By he shows how poetry gives meaning to our lives, from childhood to old age. His collection is aimed at young readers but people of all ages will appreciate the insightfulness of poems." Independent
"Illustrator and author Chris Riddell has created a rich anthology of poems from the past to the present all of which have a special meaning for him." Julia Eccleshare, Love Reading
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