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‘Owl and the Pussy-Cat’ voted favourite children’s poem
Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been voted Britain’s favourite children’s poem in the first public poll of its kind, carried out by the BBC.
Independent

Top poetry is complete nonsense
In a 1998 poll The Owl and the Pussy-cat ranked only 8th, but this was for “comic poems”.
BBC News | Entertainment (October 10, 1998)

What’s your favourite children’s poem?
Here you can read most of the top ten poems.
BBC – Arts – Poetry

Poet extols verse’s ‘healing’ quality
Some 1,000 balloons bearing the words of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat – voted the country’s best-loved children’s poem – were released into the London skies.
BBC News | ARTS

Owl and the Pussy-Cat sail to the top
POETRY lovers, young and old, have voted Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat their favourite children’s poem in a nationwide poll.
The BBC poll, which was launched to celebrate National Poetry Day today, invited poetry lovers to vote for their favourite children’s verse.
The Times