The Nation’s Favourite Children’s Poems

Other by Various Artists read by Samantha Bond, Eleanor Bron, Bernard Cribbins & Michael Maloney

Released 1 September 2002

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    The Owl and the Pussy Cat
    Edward Lear read by Bernard Cribbins
    2:29
  • 2
    Slowly
    Samantha Bond
    0:33
  • 3
    Someone
    Walter de la Mare read by Eleanor Bron
    0:50
  • 4
    The Fairies
    Michael Maloney
    2:00
  • 5
    Sing a Song of Sixpence
    [traditional] read by Eleanor Bron
    0:41
  • 6
    The King’s Breakfast
    A.A. Milne read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:48
  • 7
    Teeth
    Spike Milligan read by Michael Maloney
    0:31
  • 8
    Oh I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth
    Pam Ayres read by Eleanor Bron
    1:45
  • 9
    The Sleepy Giant
    Charles E. Carryl read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:12
  • 10
    Jim Who… Was Eaten by a Lion
    Hilaire Belloc read by Samantha Bond
    2:23
  • 11
    The Camel’s Complaint
    Charles E. Carryl read by Michael Maloney
    2:00
  • 12
    The Hump
    Rudyard Kipling read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:30
  • 13
    Happiness
    A.A. Milne read by Samantha Bond
    0:21
  • 14
    Good and Bad Children
    Robert Louis Stevenson read by Eleanor Bron
    1:03
  • 15
    Disobedience
    A.A. Milne read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:43
  • 16
    The World’s Most Popular Mother
    Samantha Bond
    1:07
  • 17
    The Trouble With My Sister
    Brian Patten read by Michael Maloney
    1:09
  • 18
    I Know Someone Who Can
    Michael Rosen read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:49
  • 19
    The Adventures of Isabel
    Ogden Nash read by Eleanor Bron
    2:14
  • 20
    Matilda
    Hilaire Belloc read by Bernard Cribbins
    2:10
  • 21
    The Day I Got My Finger Stuck Up My Nose
    Brian Patten read by Michael Maloney
    0:57
  • 22
    Timothy Winters
    Charles Causley read by Eleanor Bron
    1:37
  • 23
    First Day at School
    Roger McGough read by Samantha Bond
    1:32
  • 24
    Please Mrs Butler
    Bernard Cribbins & Eleanor Bron
    0:47
  • 25
    Don’t
    Michael Rosen read by Michael Maloney
    0:47
  • 26
    Homework, Oh Homework
    Samantha Bond
    0:40
  • 27
    What Shall We Do With the Grumpy Teacher
    Eleanor Bron & Bernard Cribbins
    1:43
  • 28
    The ABC
    Spike Milligan read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:23
  • 29
    In the Summer
    Thomas Hood read by Michael Maloney
    2:28
  • 30
    Bed in Summer
    Robert Louis Stevenson read by Samantha Bond
    0:41
  • 31
    The Star
    Jane Taylor read by Eleanor Bron
    1:11
  • 32
    Wynken Blynken and Nod
    Eugene Field read by Bernard Cribbins
    2:00
  • 33
    I Like to Stay Up
    Grace Nichols read by Eleanor Bron
    0:37
  • 34
    Kate’s Unicorn
    Adrian Henri read by Eleanor Bron
    1:12
  • 35
    Nightening
    Michael Maloney
    0:45
  • CD 2
  • 1
    On the Ning Nang Nong
    Spike Milligan read by Michael Maloney
    1:26
  • 2
    Triolet (I Wish I Were a Jelly Fish)
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton read by Bernard Cribbins
    0:23
  • 3
    I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
    [traditional] read by Eleanor Bron
    0:56
  • 4
    The Jumblies
    Edward Lear read by Eleanor Bron & Bernard Cribbins
    3:38
  • 5
    Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
    E. E. Cummings read by Samantha Bond
    0:44
  • 6
    Pirate Story
    Robert Louis Stevenson read by Michael Maloney
    0:53
  • 7
    Duck’s Ditty
    Kenneth Grahame read by Eleanor Bron
    0:42
  • 8
    Little Trotty Wagtail
    John Clare read by Samantha Bond
    0:50
  • 9
    A Boy’s Song
    James Hogg read by Michael Maloney
    1:11
  • 10
    Us Two
    A.A. Milne read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:44
  • 11
    The Grass House
    Shirley Hughes read by Samantha Bond
    0:39
  • 12
    The Tickle Rhyme
    Michael Maloney
    0:15
  • 13
    Today I Saw a Little Worm
    Spike Milligan read by Bernard Cribbins
    0:16
  • 14
    The Pobble Who Has No Toes
    Edward Lear read by Eleanor Bron
    2:19
  • 15
    The Microbe
    Hilaire Belloc read by Samantha Bond
    0:43
  • 16
    The African Lion
    A. E. Housman read by Bernard Cribbins
    0:50
  • 17
    Poor Old Lady
    [traditional] read by Michael Maloney
    2:37
  • 18
    The Bear
    Samantha Bond
    1:20
  • 19
    Jabberwocky
    Lewis Carroll read by Bernard Cribbins
    2:08
  • 20
    Don’t Call Alligator Longmouth
    Michael Maloney
    0:39
  • 21
    Sand
    Eleanor Bron
    0:28
  • 22
    The Tale of Custard the Dragon
    Ogden Nash read by Samantha Bond
    2:56
  • 23
    Song of Mr Toad
    Kenneth Grahame read by Bernard Cribbins
    1:02
  • 24
    What Way Does the Wind Come?
    Dorothy Wordsworth read by Eleanor Bron
    2:39
  • 25
    The Land of Story Books
    Robert Louis Stevenson read by Michael Maloney
    1:19
  • 26
    The Dong with a Luminous Nose
    Edward Lear read by Bernard Cribbins
    5:41
  • 27
    Windy Nights
    Robert Louis Stevenson read by Samantha Bond
    0:38
  • 28
    The Cat’s Protection League
    Roger McGough read by Bernard Cribbins
    0:59
  • 29
    Aliens Stole My Underpants
    Brian Moses read by Michael Maloney
    1:15
  • 30
    Rain
    Spike Milligan read by Bernard Cribbins
    0:20
  • 31
    Waiting at the Window
    A.A. Milne read by Samantha Bond
    1:04
  • 32
    Days
    Brian Moses read by Eleanor Bron
    0:42
  • 33
    The More it Snows
    A.A. Milne read by Bernard Cribbins
    0:35
  • 34
    The Computer’s First Christmas Card
    Edwin Morgan read by Eleanor Bron
    0:36
  • 35
    Talking Turkeys!!
    Benjamin Zephaniah read by Michael Maloney
    2:09
  • 36
    A Child’s Calendar
    George Mackay Brown read by Samantha Bond, Eleanor Bron, Bernard Cribbins & Michael Maloney
    2:50

More by Various Artists, Samantha Bond, Eleanor Bron, Bernard Cribbins, Michael Maloney

Release credits

  • spoken vocals [1.1, 1.6, 1.9, 1.12, 1.15, 1.18, 1.20, 1.27-28, 1.32, 2.2, 2.4, 2.10, 2.13, 2.16, 2.19, 2.23, 2.26, 2.28, 2.30, 2.33, 2.36]
  • spoken vocals [1.3, 1.5, 1.8, 1.14, 1.19, 1.22, 1.24, 1.27, 1.31, 1.33-34, 2.3-4, 2.7, 2.14, 2.21, 2.24, 2.32, 2.34, 2.36]
  • spoken vocals [2.1, 2.6, 2.9, 2.12, 2.17, 2.20, 2.25, 2.29, 2.35-36, 1.4, 1.7, 1.11, 1.17, 1.21, 1.25, 1.29, 1.35]
  • spoken vocals [1.2, 1.10, 1.13, 1.16, 1.23, 1.26, 1.30, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.15, 2.18, 2.22, 2.27, 2.31, 2.36]

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