by John Foster · Harper Collins Childrens H/B · tapa dura · ISBN 9780007112159
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«A Century of Children's Poems» is the children's poetry anthology edited by John Foster, published by HarperCollins in hardback (159 pages, in English).
A collection of one hundred poems by one hundred poets representative of twentieth-century children's poetry, featuring names such as John Agard, Seamus Heaney, Walter de la Mare and Benjamin Zephaniah. The selection combines diverse styles and authors, includes line illustrations and closes with a section of brief biographies of the poets.
The volume includes indexes of themes, authors, titles and first lines, as well as brief biographies of the poets. Originally published on 1 October 2001.
Aimed at readers aged 9 to 11 and at teachers seeking a varied repertoire of children's poetry in English.
John Leslie Fitzgerald Vesey Foster, also known as John Leslie Foster-Vesey-Fitzgerald, was a politician in colonial New South Wales and Victoria (Australia).
