书名：The Random House Book of Poetry for Children兰登儿童插画诗歌集

读者对象：7岁及以上
作者：Jack Prelutsky
出版社名称：Random House Books for Young Readers
出版时间：1983
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780394850108
商品尺寸：20.2 x 2 x 28.4 cm
包装：精装
页数：248

【本书特点】
1、儿童诗歌经典选集，作者是美国当代优秀的诗人之一。

Jack Prelutsky，是美国第1位桂冠诗人。Prelutsky在儿童读诗上倾注了大半生的心血，编写了The Random House Book of Poetry for Children《兰登儿童插画诗歌集》这样家喻户晓的儿童诗集，成了这个领域所有老师、学生、家长都非常熟悉的名字。怎样才算适合给孩子去读的优秀诗歌？Prelutsky这样介绍自己的“选诗”标准：他选的诗歌讲究韵律、想象、清晰、趣味，总之内涵丰富又十分好听。
 
本书就是他根据这些原则选编而成，出版后就获得了《书单》杂志编辑选择大奖、号角图书儿童经典大奖、美国图书馆协会年度童书、《学校图书馆》杂志年度童书等多项大奖。

2、插画师很有来头，给诗集增添了很多趣味和美感。

本书的插画作者是Arnold Lobel，也就是Frog and Toad Are Friends《青蛙和蟾蜍》的作者，他曾两度荣获凯迪克大奖。他的画风简单、富有趣味，尤其擅长捕捉人物的情感，一幅画就能把一首诗中的故事情节表达出来，功力十分深厚！

3、语言简单，韵律优美，对提升孩子英语水平也会带来帮助。

为了孩子要读诗歌？英国著名文学评论家Samuel Taylor Coleridge说得很精炼：Poetry is the best words in the best order.诗歌是文字的组合。
 
年纪小的孩子对诗的反应就跟呼吸一样自然，甚至是还不会讲话的孩子也一样喜欢听到有韵律节奏的调子。所以，让孩子从小接触英文诗歌，是培养英文语感、英语学习兴趣的一个美妙途径。

The most accessible and joyous introduction to the world of poetry!
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children offers both funny and illuminating poems for kids personally selected by the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, Jack Prelutsky. Featuring a wealth of beloved classic poems from the past and modern glittering gems, every child who opens this treasury will finda world of surprises and delights which will instill a lifelong love of poetry. Featuring 572 unforgettable poems, and over 400 one-of-a-kind illustrations from the Caldecott-winning illustrator of the Frog and Toad series, Arnold Lobel, this collection is, quite simply, the perfect way to introduce children to the world of poetry.

在前言当中，Jack Prelutsky就写到：“对于非常幼小的孩童来说，对诗的反应就跟呼吸一样自然。”这本书就是这种乐趣的集锦。诗是小孩透过文字的音乐韵律认识世界、认识各种东西名字的过程。兜兜转转，如同美丽的唱游时间，身体摇摇摆摆的节拍器。

Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York. Jack has been a cab driver, a busboy, a photographer, a furniture mover, a potter, and a folk singer. He enjoys bicycling, playing racquetball, woodworking and cooking. He lives in Washington State with his wife Carolynn and a vast collection of poetry books and frogs in every shape, size, and form -- except living! There was a time when Jack couldn't stand poetry. In grade school he had a teacher who left him with the impression that poetry was the literary equivalent of liver. He rediscovered poetry in his twenties, and he decided that he would write about things that kids really cared about, and that he would strive to make poetry delightful. He has been writing poetry for more than twenty years and has published more than three dozen books for children.