The verses of this unique treasury include tributes to best-loved authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Tennyson and Dickens, as well as lively re-tellings of myth, folk and fairy tale. Accompanied by nine prose passages of background information, they would make a creative supplement to home school study or classroom instruction, or the ideal gift this holiday season for that special book worm or word nerd on your list! Whether you read them silently or aloud, alone or in company, I hope they convey a little of the boundless admiration I feel for the founding genius that inspired me to their composition.