She says 'I've worked so hard for years and I deserve a rest!'
As she scribbles with crayons and pours custard down her dress,
She's dangling from the banister with her head upside-down!
Does your Mum do this?
Help!
The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of
previously published titles, each with several brand new poems
in them. A matching Teacher Resource Book is also available and has
lessons based on different poetry types, each focusing on a specific
poem from one of the anthologies.
WINNER OF THE LAUGH OUT LOUD AWARDS AND THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE
Joshua Seigal, winner of the 2020 and 2023 Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (the only UK prize for funny children's books voted for entirely by children), brings his raucous humour, creativity and wit to another brilliant collection of poems. Ideal for fans of Michael Rosen, this book will delight all young readers and fans of funny books.
From hilarious to heartfelt poems – and everything in between – this collection offers something for everyone. Discover the eight steps for having a successful tantrum, and why you should NEVER attend a Teddy Bear’s Picnic (you have been warned). Packed full of fun illustrations by Sarah Horne, and covering a range of imaginative topics, Yapping Away is the perfect follow-up to Joshua Seigal’s prize-winning collection I Bet I Can Make You Laugh.
Ideal for children as young as 3 to read with adults, or for children aged 5-7 to read by themselves.
Book Band: Lime (ideal for ages 6+)
Me and My Alien Friend is Ed Boxall’s first full-length collection of children’s poetry.
The book is full of all sorts of friends: best friends, changing friends, absent friends, animal friends, imaginary friends and even a friend who’s a ‘Thing on a Springy String’.
In the poems, friends adventure together: discovering, exploring and sharing life’s happy hills and lonely dark hollows. The ‘Alien Friend’ poem returns like a chorus throughout the book: a boy sits on the moon with his 38-toed alien friend, looking at our world from a peaceful distance, observing, thinking, dreaming.
Throughout the poems and drawings friendship is gently celebrated as a universal experience that can cross every divide.
This Family themed anthology of poems is written by various authors.
The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of
previously published titles, each with several brand new poems
in them. There's an anthology for every place and topic. Make sure
you've always got a verse rehearsed! Roaring dinosaur rhymes, silly
school rhymes: even some revolting rhymes to get you groaning.
You can rap or rhyme them, mime them out or tackle fiendish tongue-twisters.
Heaps of rib-tickling rhymes to send you poetry potty,
and it all supports the school curriculum.
A matching Teacher Resource Book, written by Paul Cookson, features
workshop-style lessons based on different poetry types/genres.
Each lesson focuses on a specific poem from one of the anthologies.
A delightful collection of poems for children, all about worms. It includes worm poems in various poetic forms, worm-related parodies of nursery rhymes, and lots more. With lots of fun and just a little environmental consciousness thrown in, this is a charming collection, perfect for KS1 children.
Book band: Lime
Ideal for ages: 6 +
Daphne is unbearably sad and adrift. She feels the painful loss of her father acutely and seeks solace both in the security of her local library and the escape her phone screen provides by blocking out the world around her. As Daphne tries to make sense of what has happened she recalls memories of shared times and stories past, and in facing the darkness she finds a way back from the tangle of fear and confusion, to feel connected once more with her friends and family. The Girl Who Became a Tree sees Joseph Coelho deploy a wide variety of poetic forms with consummate skill in its narration of events. He seamlessly but searingly weaves together the ancient legend of Daphne, who was turned into a tree to avoid the attentions of the god Apollo, and a totally modern tale, mixing real-life and fantasy, in which a latter-day Daphne seeks her own freedom. This is a heart-stoppingly imaginative story told in poems, at times bleak and even tragic, which is layered, rich and ultimately a tour de force of poetic skill and energy.
