Selections in the books are all ten-minutes or less- the perfect length to read-aloud to children at bedtime. Provides hours of educational entertainment and puts children on the road to becoming a life-long readers. Completely redesigned into a smaller, chunky size, it is the perfect gift for parents and children. The selections from Read Aloud Poems have been carefully selected to appeal to a child's sensibility and include work from the world's greatest poets such as Lewis Carroll, Emily Dickinson, Shel Silverstein, Edward Lear, William Blake, and more.