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Magic slipsbetween the cracks in real life. One day you will step on it. A monster s lunch, a wolf boy, Monday mornings, monkeys, headlice, Christmas, making friends, goldfish and lots more. Full of jokes, surprises and puzzles, but also sensitive and thought-provoking, this is a spellbinding new collection from the winner of the CLPE Poetry Award.

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Praise for The Language of Cat: Thoughtful, quirky, sensitive, amusing, edgy. Hers is a welcome new voice. -- Books for Keeps A remarkably assured collection. -- Carousel

Praise for The Language of Cat: Thoughtful, quirky, sensitive, amusing, edgy. Hers is a welcome new voice. -- Books for Keeps A remarkably assured collection. -- Carousel

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RACHEL ROONEY trained and works as a special needs teacher, alongside visits to schools for poetry readings and workshops. Her debut collection of poems for older children The Language of Cat was the 2011 Poetry Book Society children's choice. It also won the 2012 CLPE Award and was long listed for the Carnegie Medal. Her second collection of poems, for junior aged children My Life as a Goldfish came out in October 2014.Rachel Rooney's poetry collection for children is a well-crafted, stimulating and unpatronising box of delights, always accessible and constantly inventive.' Carol Ann Duffy

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