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Some of the poets featured are Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, Lewis Carroll, Yeats, A.A. Milne, Christina Rosetti, Carol and Duffy and many more. So why a three star rating? It just isn’t a numbers game with those kind of books. Rating poetry is highly subjective anyway. And three stars feels about right for the overall experience. This seemed a fun way to discover poetry. Turns out it isn’t for me, I can’t seem to “get” the poems, it doesn’t make sense to me, and maybe that’s the point of poetry, but I didn’t enjoy it. The celebration of ridiculousness in a nursery rhyme. Vintage image for Hey Diddle from WikiMedia Commons What might we find surprising in your notes alongside the nursery rhymes in A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year?

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A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. These poems are funny, thoughtful, inspiring, humbling, informative, quiet, loud, small, epic, peaceful, energetic, upbeat, motivating, and empowering! For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. I broke the rule though and read it all at once. Die Introtexte schwanken total im Ton. Manchmal geben sie interessante Hintergrundinformationen, dann deuten sie wieder recht offensichtliche Teile des Gedichts (was sehr kindgerecht wirkt), nur um bei komplizierteren Gedichten gar nicht auf den Inhalt einzugehen oder irgendwelche Anhaltspunkte zu geben. However doing this isn't going to help anyone find books that are right for them so I need to stop. The OCD side of my bookworm self had to physically be restrained so as to read only one poem every night as the title suggests. *lol* But it was kind of a nice reading experience and definitely a little different from how I usually read so it was absolutely worth it.

I’m now debating if I should keep the book or not. I probably won’t be reading it again. But it looks very nice on the outside. There could have been taken more care of the design on the inside, though. To be honest, it looks a little plain. Well, we’ll see. Maybe it gets turned into a present for someone. Beautiful collection of poetry. It took me nearly four years to finish, occasionally reading some poems, but I loved this volume and will be looking for something similar to read in the future.Allie Esiri’s beautiful gift anthology, A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year, is a definitive collection of nursery rhymes, with enchanting illustrations by Emily Faccini. Now, launched in March 2023, we can all recreate that wonderful nostalgia with a new collection of nursery rhymes. A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year has been assembled, curated and beautifully annotated by Allie Esiri. As with every ' a (insert name) a day' book, I started off well. Reading a poem a day and wanting to read more was great, then I kind of forgot about it and left it at my parents which is why I read four months' worth of poems yesterday+today, whoops.

Vintage nursery rhyme image from Wikimedia Commons What can we expect from A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year?I loved the whole idea of this book, I just wish the inside had been as pretty as the outside! I guess it would have cost a lot more, but beautiful illustrations would have been perfect. Reading a poem (almost) every day this year was an absolute delight. I enjoyed how a lot of the poems were on theme for different holidays, seasons, and historical events, even though the collection is definitely geared towards a younger audience. A Poem For Every Night of the Year is a collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share for every night of the year. The poems - together with introductory paragraphs - have a link to the date on which they appear.

While I do think it’s entirely acceptable to read a book like this at your own pace and inclination, I will say that the historical significance of the poems, included in the introductory paragraphs, was one of the highlights of the experience for me. Connecting the poems to a holiday or war or event piqued my interest in the corresponding poems. Not every poem fit its date exactly, but the ones that did were more fun to read on the appropriate days. This lovely book takes you on a journey through history, seasons, tells of festivals and traditions from many different countries, cultures, and religions. Even poems including historical events. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it contains a full spectrum of poetry from familiar favourites to exciting contemporary voices. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, W. B. Yeats, A. A. Milne and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Roger McGough, Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah.

About Allie Esiri

I started the year with the best intentions of actually reading a poem every night. Reading poetry is a great habit to expand both the reading and writing mind, and though I do enjoy it, I don’t reach for it nearly often enough. But it didn’t take me long to fall behind, so I fell instead into the habit of reading a few poems at a time, 2 or 3 times a week, whenever it best fit my mood and schedule. By updating my progress on Goodreads at the end of each “chapter” and month, I stayed motivated enough never to fall drastically behind, which is an accomplishment I’m quite proud of. Despite my determination last January, I wasn’t actually sure I’d make it to the December poems within the first year of trying. Particular favourites of mine included Love's Philosophy by Percy Shelley, The Buddha by Tony Mitton and the very famous The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. There's also an excellent extract from Shakespeare's The Tempest, which in itself is a play of pure poetry. As such the poems are rich in diversity and carry with them varying degrees of complexity. Although published by Macmillan Children's Books, I think this collection is more suited to an adult reader. There are, certainly, poems in here that a young reader may enjoy, but I think an adult would get more out of poems that deal with larger issues such as love, death and life.