Questa serie di poesie celebra il regno animale con meraviglia e arguzia, dando vita vivida a creature dell'aria, della terra e del mare. Attraverso un linguaggio evocativo e illustrazioni affascinanti, ogni pezzo offre una prospettiva unica sul mondo naturale. È un'introduzione coinvolgente per i giovani lettori alla bellezza e al mistero degli animali. La serie incoraggia l'esplorazione e promuove un profondo apprezzamento per gli abitanti della natura.
Animals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes. Previously unpublished poems appear with selections from Under the North Star and The Cat and the Cuckoo. Part of Hughes's Collected Animal Poems, The Iron Wolf is for the youngest readers, both to listen to and explore themselves. Chris Riddell's delightful line illustrations add to the journey of discovery.
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment' (The School Librarian).
"We will speak to the people," said God. "We will ask them a few simple questions. Then you shall hear. In their sleep they will say what they truly know." It is 2am and God and his Son look down from a grassy hilltop on the spire and roofs of a village. Summoned in their sleep, the inhabitants one by one describe truly an animal they know well. "This is a very beautiful book: pages of English moonlight, a modern Aesop in a village where God and his Son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple quetions ... the pomes are pure enchantment.
From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
All the richness of the wild is seen through the poet's eye. Here are poems from Hawk in the Rain, Wodwo, Wolfwatching, Lupercal and River as well as from Adam and the Sacred Nine, their juxtaposition highlighting the variety of the natural world and of Hughes's poetry about it.