With poems by W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, Katharine Tynan, Alice Milligan, Lady Wilde and Lady Gregory, J.M. Synge, Jonathan Swift, Austin Clarke and many others, this collection will delight readers young and old.
Let the words of these masters – some heart-remembered, others new to discover – and the radiant illustrations by Erin Brown bring you from bee-loud glade to fields of light, from purple glen to caves ‘neath the glittering waves.
A few years ago (but definitely not as many as Goodreads thinks, only two or three, no question about that) O'Brien released a book of Yeats' poetry aimed at children. Tread Softly is kind of a follow up, in that it also features Irish poets, and indeed Yeats is in here a couple of times. (Did anyone else know it's called Aedh Wishes for the Cloth of Heaven? I always learned it as He!)
Soft, colourful, wonderfully detailed illustrations accompany each poem, meaning this will hold the attention of even younger children. The poems are mostly of the 'means what it says' school which makes it very suitable as well.
I knew a few of these poems - granted, one was from a Bord na Mona ad, but it all counts! - and I enjoyed reading the new-to-me ones. This is a book I'll come back to again and again, and in the meantime it looks great shelved next to The Moon Spun Round.
Tread Softly is available now. I received a free copy and am giving an honest review.
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