She encourages readers to follow in her footsteps and adore poetry, to re-read poems again and again, and find something new each time, and to even make anthologies of their own. Expertly curated by Ella Risbridger and sublimely illustrated by Anna Shepeta, this sumptuous anthology of inspiring verse from a host of seminal female poets includes work by Christina Rossetti, Maya Angelou, Amanda Gorman and many more. With sumptuous finishes including cloth binding, full colour illustrations throughout, textured paper jacket, ribbon marker, and head and tail bands. The absolutely stunning artwork leaps out at you from the bookshelf and the end papers are filled with carefully considered doodles representing many of the 'characters' from within the book.

It was named a Book Of The Year 2019 by half a dozen publications, including The Times, The Daily Mail, and The Observer.She goes on to paint a picture of the oppression of women and their creative talents, and especially their lack of equal rights to men. Nosy Crow publish some beautiful children's books designed to be treasured for a lifetime and this is no exception. Taking poetry as a filter for art and personal expression, readers are encouraged what they love about a poem they have read, who wrote it, why, why did it strike a chord.

Ella’s skilful selection includes poems to make you think, poems to make you hope and poems that might just make you act, too.Her illustrations are simply stunning, beautiful, captivating, magical, worldly and as such so intelligently and thoughtfully compliment each poem. Ella's selection is wide-ranging but accessible and will appeal to poetry lovers both young and old alike.