A generally nice book of poetry, but nothing special.
I enjoyed seeing a decent handful of representation from Welsh and Scottish poets, however I would say that, as I'm finding repeated in many children's poetry books, a large number from this collection are more classic older poems that I'm not convinced hold much place in a classroom anymore. And again, I don't mean at all that children shouldn't study old, classic, or difficult poems, but rather that a lot of what seem to be famous poems, or simple well known nursery rhymes, are outdated in their language or suggestions.

As I read through, since this was a library book, I made a list of the poems featured that I particularly enjoyed in case I want to use them or this book again in future:

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Dragonfly - Libby Houston
The Dream of the Cabbage Caterpillars -Libby Houston
F for Fox - Carol Ann Duffy
A Crow and a Scarecrow- Carol Ann Duffy
The Owl and the Pussycat - Edward Lear
To a Mouse - Robert Burns
The Loch Ness Monster Song - Edwin Morgan
In the Bee-Factory - Libby Houston
The Sounds of Earth - Julie O'Callaghan
Thunder - Elizabeth Bishop
Snow and Snow - Ted Hughes
January Cold Desolate - Christina Rossetti
At Nine of the Night I Opened My Door - Charles Causley
The Song of Wandering Aengus - W. B. Yeats
Night Mail - W. H. Auden
Great-Grandmother's Lament - Jackie Kay
What are Heavy? - Christina Rossetti
Out in the Desert - Charles Causley
What is Pink? - Christina Rossetti
Bed in Summer - Robert Louis Stevenson

(As a personal side note... I hadn't realised I was /quite/ so picky as to only really enjoy 21 poems out of this book of 101...)