A Child’s Garden of Poetry is a DVD collection of poetry readings for children, with animation, by performers like Claire Danes, Carrie Fisher, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, Ziggy Marley, Liam Neeson, Natalie Merchant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dave Matthews and Jeffrey Wright.
More than a dozen short segments featuring works by celebrated poets Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost, Matsuo Basho, Li Bai, Claude McKay, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, William Shakespeare, Mary Ann Hoberman, Emily Dickinson and William Wadsworth.
Also included are archival recordings by E.E. Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Carl Sandburg.
Finally, children also share their insights on what poetry means to them.
This title received the 2011 Emmy award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
srp $9.97
The Tropics in New York by Claude McKay. Read by Ziggy Marley.
Dave Matthews reads Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
Watch the official preview clip here.
