Around 200 poems from folk and children's sources, by Ringelnatz and Morgenstern, Heinz Erhardt and Robert Gernhardt, Matthias Claudius, Goethe, Christine Nöstlinger, and many others come together to create a housebook of poetry. Old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, funny and reflective verses, rhymes, and poems open the door to the magical world of poetry. For children who want to get to know it, and for adults who will guide them. The gateway to the pictorial world of language is provided by the illustrations of Rotraut Susanne Berner. The bestseller is now available as a limited special edition at a celebratory price! Around 200 counting and jumble rhymes, tongue twisters, nonsense and riddle poems, funny and contemplative narrative poems. The highly praised selection of texts offers both young and older readers new discoveries time and again. For reading aloud and self-reading, for learning, discovering, and marveling.