Macmillan Poems for Travellers

A stunning anthology of poetry to create calm and peacefulness. The poems are arranged around themes of meditation, friendship, gratitude, prayers and blessings, stillness and consolation • Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features a preface by Ana Sampson • There are poems by Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, W. B. Yeats, Katherine Mansfield, George Herbert, William Wordsworth, Anne Bronte, Khalil Gibran, Rumi, Walt Whitman and many more. There are also uplifting prayers and blessings from around the world. Each inspiring verse flows effortlessly into the next in this anthology of classic poetry, Poems for Stillness

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that • Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by acclaimed children's writer, Michael Morpurgo • Poems of Childhood combines the best of classic children's poetry into one anthology featuring a rich range of themes - from animals to nursery rhymes, from nonsense poems to magic. Many favourites are here, including 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Tyger'. This delightful collection is the perfect gift for children and a chance for adults to revisit their favourite verse from the likes of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame

The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons and the passing of time • Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an introduction by Helen Macdonald, author of the international bestseller, H is for Hawk • Since poetry began, there have been poems about nature; it's a complex subject which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry ever written. Poets from Andrew Marvell to W. B. Yeats to Emily Bronte have sought to describe the natural environment and our relationship with it

Элли Эсири, редактор бестселлеров «Поэма на каждый день в году» и «Поэма на каждую ночь в году», представляет эту прекрасную подарочную антологию произведений Шекспира • Уильям Шекспир написал как минимум 37 пьес, 154 сонета и несколько более длинных стихотворений, и вы можете найти их здесь. Каждая страница этой уникальной коллекции содержит отрывок, который может представлять собой известное стихотворение, цитату или сцену, соответствующую дате. Предисловия Элли Эсири открывают читателям новое окно в творчество, время и жизнь величайшего англоязычного писателя • «Шекспир на каждый день» идеально подходит для чтения или совместного использования и предлагает вам самые известные и любимые классические произведения Шекспира, а также менее известные отрывки

Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of happiness and this beautiful anthology explores happiness in all its forms - whether it be a fleeting moment, the promise of freedom and adventure, surviving adversity or the comfort of nature • Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Poems for Happiness features an introduction by writer, broadcaster and parish priest, the Reverend Richard Coles • This inspiring and life-affirming collection features writing by some of our greatest poets whose work is still widely read today. It includes famous poems such as 'How Do I Love Thee?' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, 'My Heart Leaps Up' by William Wordsworth and 'Invictus' by W

Cuba with its flamboyant style and rich culture, has provided the inspiration and setting for literature for decades. It has always been one of the most compelling places in the world, though perhaps never more so than now. Following Raul Castro's resignation as President in 2018, the era of Castroism has come to an end, and the US-Cuba rapprochement has opened the country to a generation of Americans whose only previous exposure was through film and literature. The coming years will undoubtedly bring significant changes to a country that has in many ways been frozen in time • Cuba: A Literary Guide for Travellers takes the literary-minded traveller (either in person or in an armchair) on a vivid and illuminating journey, retracing the footsteps of writers and artists who have lived and worked in, or been inspired by, the history and landscape of Cuba

Mindfulness invites us to live in the moment and appreciate the world around us. Enjoy the joys of every day through the words of these famous and best-loved poets, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walt Whitman. Mindfulness invites us to live in the moment and appreciate the world around us. This elegant collection of poems invites you to do just that, with meditations on nature, love, friendship, travel and more. Enjoy the joys of every day through the words of these famous and best-loved poets - including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Walt Whitman - and bring peace and tranquillity into your life

Профессиональный лингвист-преподаватель доступно и схематично объяснит основную грамматику английского языка, научит строить простые фразы, необходимые в путешествии • Картинки помогут Вам воссоздать реальные жизненные ситуации • В учебнике 20 уроков, каждый посвящен ситуации, которая обязательно встретится на отдыхе • Диалоги веселые, написаны с юмором: на ресепшн, разговор с гидом, на экскурсии

Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum – это сборник забавных, несерьезных и занимательных стихотворений для детей от любимой писательницы Джулии Дональдсон. Книга наполнена фирменными стихотворениями и рифмованным текстом, которые научат вашего ребенка считать, выполнять определенные действия и делать многое другое, а также более вдумчивые произведения • Книга на английском языке • Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes, action rhymes, noisy rhymes and more thoughtful pieces too • If tigerlilies and dandelions growled, • And cowslips mooed, and dogroses howled, • And snapdragons roared and catmint miaowed, • My garden would be extremely loud • Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is a fantastic collection of funny, silly and entertaining poems for the very young from acknowledged master of rhyme and author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson

Shuffle and Squelch – это сборник забавных стихотворений от любимой детской писательницы Джулии Дональдсон и блестящего иллюстратора Ника Шаррата. Ваш ребенок не сможет устоять и будет подражать лаю, мяуканью, цоканью и многим другим звукам животных. Книга станет прекрасным подарком для малышей • Книга на английском языке • Kick your boots off, everyone • Summer's here and so's the sun • Bright, bold and accessible, this collection of rhymes and poems for children is perfect for joining in. There are animal rhymes, rhymes to make you shuffle and squelch and clatter and patter, and rhymes to make you gallop like a horse or slide down the banister. In Shuffle and Squelch, Julia Donaldson's verse jumps off the page and Nick Sharratt's snazzy illustrations add to the fun

Poems to make you smile! Critically acclaimed poet Roger McGough has drawn together a fantastic collection of upbeat poems to bring happiness into your day with this uplifting collection Happy Poems • Perfect for happy children or those needing a little cheer, Roger reminds us that happiness can be found all around us in the everyday, in family, in books in nature and, of course, in our pets! Includes gems from the very best classic and contemporary poets, such as John Agard, Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Carol Ann Duffy, Joseph Coelho, William Wordsworth and William Blake

Poems from the Second World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced WWII from different standpoints • The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 to collect and display material relating to the 'Great War', which was still being fought. Today IWM is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present. They seek to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and wartime experience