| Compiled by | Barbara Ireson |
| Illustrator | Gioia Fiammenghi |
| Imprint | Puffin Books |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Copyright Holder | Barbara Ireson |
| Printed by | Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd |
| Poetry by | Herbert Asquith, Barbara Baker, R. M. Ballantyne, Marchette Chute, John Ciardi, Leonard Clark, Pauline Clarke, Rene Cloke, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Mary Coleridge, Padraic Colum, Ian Colvin, Walter de la Mare, C. J. Dennis, Marion Edey, Roland Egan, Eleanor Farjeon, Rachel Field, Aileen Fisher, Robert Frost, Rose Fyleman, Elizabeth Godley, Robert Graves, Kate Greenaway, Thomas Hood, Jean Ingelow, James Kirkup, Edward Lear, Lois Lenski, M. Long, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Mary Britton Miller, A. A. Milne, Lilian Moore, Ogden Nash, Jessica Nelson North, Mildred Plew Meigs, Anita E. Posey, Beatrix Potter, James Reeves, Laura Richards, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Christina Rossetti, Clive Sansom, Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Gabriel Setoun, William Jay Smith, James Stephens, Hal Summers, James S. Tippett, F. E. Weatherley, Raymond Wilson, Alison Winn, William Wise, Humbert Wolfe, William Butler Yeats |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London |
| First Published | 1970 |
| Reprinted | 1978 |
| Copyright | 1970 |
| Pages / Font | 206 pages |
| ISBN | 0 14 03.0410 X |
| Price | United Kingdom 65p / Australia $1.95 / Canada $1.50 |
