Awards

• Short-listed for CLiPPA Poetry Award 2017
• Shortlisted for CLiPPA Poetry Award 2017.
• Winner of CLiPPA Poetry Award 2017

Overview

Meet Skig, who’s meant to be a warrior (but is really more of a worrier). Meet a giddy comet, skidding across the sky with her tail on fire. Put a marvellous new machine in your pocket and maybe you’ll be able to fix all your life’s problems. Kate Wakeling’s first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations. The poems she writes are always musical, sometimes magical, and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world. Moon Juice contains 25 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, and ideas for writing your own poems.

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A debut collection of poetry that presents magical, strange and unlikely events in a confident and persuasive way. I very much liked Wakeling's inventiveness and imagination. Children of 7 and up would relish the surreal 'Hamster Man' or 'The Demon Mouth' and the language and content of the poems is slap bang up to date and all the better for it. [...] The poems are varied in shape and form, there is bold use of white space and a sense of enjoyment in the language. I think 7 year olds would love this one and I expect it to walk out of my study very soon. Kate thoughtfully addresses childhood issues around peer pressure, worry and anxiety, and fitting in with others in such a beautiful and lyrical way. Poems achieve the balance of being beautifully written and also short enough to hold youngsters' attention but long enough to impart their important and thought-provoking messages. A collection of poems by a new voice writing for children is an event to be celebrated. Moon Juice by the poet, Kate Wakeling is just such an event. However, these are not poems created to grab the attention with the quick laugh and a lot of noise; these are poems to seduce, to attract because they reflect the imagination of the young reader. Ferelith Hordon, Books for Keeps There's a focussed precision in much of Kate's writing that turns many of her poems into sharp injections of humour or close observation. Her words are gently juxtaposed with black and white illustrations by the Latvian artist Elīna Brasliņa. Expressive, playful and good at making you re-read the poem to see another of its strands, they play an important role in making this book appealing and approachable. Playing by the Book

I very much liked Wakeling’s inventiveness and imagination. Children of 7 and up would relish the surreal ‘Hamster Man’ or ‘The Demon Mouth’ and the language and content of the poems is slap bang up to date and all the better for it. […] The poems are varied in shape and form, there is bold use of white space and a sense of enjoyment in the language. I think 7 year olds would love this one and I expect it to walk out of my study very soon. * The North * Kate thoughtfully addresses childhood issues around peer pressure, worry and anxiety, and fitting in with others in such a beautiful and lyrical way. Poems achieve the balance of being beautifully written and also short enough to hold youngsters’ attention but long enough to impart their important and thought-provoking messages. * ReadItDaddy * A debut collection of poetry that presents magical, strange and unlikely events in a confident and persuasive way. There’s a focussed precision in much of Kate’s writing that turns many of her poems into sharp injections of humour or close observation. Her words are gently juxtaposed with black and white illustrations by the Latvian artist Elīna Brasliņa. Expressive, playful and good at making you re-read the poem to see another of its strands, they play an important role in making this book appealing and approachable. Playing by the Book -- Zoe Toft A collection of poems by a new voice writing for children is an event to be celebrated. Moon Juice by the poet, Kate Wakeling is just such an event. However, these are not poems created to grab the attention with the quick laugh and a lot of noise; these are poems to seduce, to attract because they reflect the imagination of the young reader. Ferelith Hordon, Books for Keeps

Author Information

Kate Wakeling is a poet and musicologist. Her debut poetry collection for children, Moon Juice, won the CLiPPA in 2017 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Her second collection, Cloud Soup, was shortlisted for the CLiPPA in 2022 and named a book of the month in the Guardian and the Scotsman. A pamphlet of Kate’s poetry for adults, The Rainbow Faults, is published by The Rialto. Kate studied music at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in Balinese gamelan music from SOAS. Elīna Brasliņa studied Printmaking and Graphic Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia. Since 2014 she has illustrated more than twenty titles, including Moon Juice by Kate Wakeling, which was her international debut. She has been nominated for numerous awards in Latvia, and has won the Zelta Ābele (Golden Apple Tree) National Prize for Book Art twice. She was awarded the International Jānis Baltvilks Prize in 2017. You can visit Elīna’s website and see more of her illustrations here: www.elinabraslina.com

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