This Amazing World

If you’re looking for a little ‘awe and wonder’, for home, school or library, here it is! This collection of poems and prayers about everything under the sun really does lift the heart. Eleanor Farjeon’s ‘Morning has broken’ is here, along with poems by Christina Rossetti and Gerard Manley Hopkins. There are poems to rejoice in, ‘… waves roll in from the glittering green of the sparkling summertime sea’, alongside old favourites like Walter de la Mare’s ‘Slowly, silently, now the moon …’

Children will delight in

‘All things bright and beautiful

All creatures great and small

All weevils, worms and warthogs

The Lord God made them all.’

Conservation is simply addressed in Jane Whittle’s poem:

‘Save me a clean stream, flowing

to unpolluted seas…

Keep me a place in this old land,

somewhere to grow, somewhere to be.’

The illustrations are simple and appealing, and the book closes beautifully with a traditional Gaelic blessing. Its slow, repetitive words steal into one’s being.