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‘Miss Hourd has shown how naturally the poetic spirit can develop in the child, and what great value this development has for the integration of the child’s personality’, Sir Herbert Read
‘Herself a lover of poetry … she is greatly concerned that the instinctive feeling for it inherent in most children should be encouraged in the best possible atmosphere and, to this end, her book will be of real value to any teacher of English’, Higher Education Journal
Publ by William Heinemann Ltd, 1959
