Overview

Have you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo? Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you. Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life. This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.

Full Product Details

Author:   Steve Turner (Author) ,  David Mostyn
Publisher:   SPCK Publishing
Imprint:   Lion Cub Books
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9781915748133

ISBN 10:   1915748135
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   17 May 2024
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 9 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Children's (6-12)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available  
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Table of Contents

Contents I like Words First Word I Like Words Language Wriggle Wouldn't It Be Funny? The Naming of the Animals What Am I Words I Like Rhythm and Rhyme Heartbeat Seasons Drip Drip Drip Breathing Jack and Jill Boring Boring Boring InterCity Train Like This...Like That As Good as This My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose What Have You Done to the Wind? Sun Butterflies It's Raining Cats and Dogs Sitting by a Summer Pool Who Was I Before I Was Born? Memory and Magic I Like the World The Jumping Game Old Swear Word Sleepy Time Spell In the Beginning Standing On My Head Other Ways of Seeing Things Upside Down Ghosts I Am the Sea TV Dinner The Vegetables Strike Back The Final Straw I'll Run Away From Home Who Am I? The Olden Days God Is Still Making Up Numbers Who Made the World? Hard to Please It Wasn't Me My Dad I Can't Sit Still Who's a Lovely Girl? Messages to the World Who Made a Mess? All We Need Television News I Know the Santa More Sweets Telling Tales Inside My Head What I Did Last Night The Day I Fell Down the Toilet The Death of a Fly Nightmare on the Game Machine My Grandparent's House A Wee Poem There Was an Old Woman A Knees-Up With Words The Ding-Song Song A Knees-Up With Words Punch-Line Week Tomorrow Bottoms Bugler Bill Putting It All Together Strings and Things The Worst School in the World Lists Snail Fireworks My Teacher Nobody Likes You When You Grow Up

Reviews

"""If you read collections of poems by Adrian Mitchell, Roger McGough, Jackie Kay, John Agard, Brian Patten, Kit Wright, Carol Ann Duffy, Steve Turner, Grace Nichols and Benjamin Zephaniah, you'll probably be well set up."" -- Michael Rosen * The Times * ""An excellent addition to any poetry section in public or school libraries."" * School Librarian Journal * ""This hilarious collection of modern poems will make you laugh out loud."" * Young Telegraph *"

Author Information

Steve Turner (Author) STEVE TURNER is a performance poet and journalist. Author of several anthologies of adult verse, children's poetry and many rock biographies. David Mostyn (Illustrator) DAVID MOSTYN is a widely published cartoonist and illustrator.

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