Here, in this beautifully illustrated anthology, is all the joy and innocence, fear and frustration of childhood in one hundred poems. From John Betjeman to William Wordsworth, from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Ted Hughes, from Robert Herrick to Walt Whitman, from Carol Ann Duffy to Seamus Heaney - here is a collection of poems which have been taken from the whole range of verse in English, from the Middle Ages to the present day.