The Magic Box Poems for Children

Kit Wright.

ISBN 10: 0230705154 / ISBN 13: 9780230705159

Published by Macmillan Children's Books, London, 2009

About this Item

First printing. Seller Inventory # 22779

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Magic Box Poems for Children

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, London

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Bailey, Peter

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine DJ

Edition: First edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

A beautiful collection featuring all of Kit Wright’s finest poems. It includes poems from his best-selling and universally loved collections, Hot Dog, Rabbiting On, Cat Among the Pigeons and Great Snakes and many other treasures too.

from The Magic Box

I will put in the box

the swish of a silk sari on a summer night,

fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon,

the tip of a tongue touching a tooth.

I will put in the box

a snowman with a rumbling belly,

a sip of bluest water from Lake Lucerne,

a leaping spark from an electric fish.

About the Author:

Kit Wright was born in 1944 in Kent. He was educated at Berkhamsted school and New College, Oxford. He taught in a London comprehensive and has spent three years lecturing in English Literature at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He also worked as Education Secretary to the Poetry Society in London, and was Fellow-Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge. Kit Wright now devotes all his time to poetry and is well known for his collections and anthologies, including The Magic Box: Poems for Children, as well as being a performer and teacher.