For permission to use material the publishers make grateful acknowledgement to the following:
| Copyright owner | Material | |
| Janet and Allan Ahlberg | Text and illustration from Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (1978). Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Limited. | |
| A.P. Watts on behalf of Michael B. Yeats | The Lake Isle of Inisfree by W.B. Yeats | |
| U.A. Fanthorpe | He refuses to read his public's favourite poem by U.A.Fanthorpe. Published in Safe as
Houses by U.A. Fanthorpe (Peterloo Poets), 1995 | |
| Frost, Robert | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (Jonathan Cape)
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