""The tiger growls, its eyes ablaze,
but we too have our tiger ways,
we too can pad through the dark wood
of the cosmic neighbourhood.""
Leap with hares, call out to the sun, run with the wind, pull silly faces with monkeys, watch out for the bear in the bathroom and meet a burping princess!
A fantastic new collection for younger children from a prize-winning poet. These poems are perfect for curious young minds, ready for adventures.
Award-winning children's writer and former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo has collected his greatest magical stories from all around the world and put them in one place. Here! From tiny heroes to talking frogs, and meddling fairies to mysterious sea creatures, this is a timeless collection to treasure forever. Beautiful colour illustrations bring the magical text to life. There are lots of stories to choose from, including The Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, and a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk written by Michael Morpurgo. So whether you're looking for a quick read or a longer story to lose yourself in, something to read alone or a tale to share, there's a great magical story within for everyone to find.
A sumptuous gift edition for young readers to treasure.
Suitable for little girls, this work contains five stories from the ""Picture Books"" series: ""The Nutcracker"", ""On the Farm"", ""Alice in Wonderland"", ""The Snow Queen"" and ""The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse"". It presents each story with illustrations.
A collection of wonderfully hilarious, ridiculous rhymes put together by a master compiler, well known for his collections with OUP. John Foster is a poet in his own right and is highly-regarded in both the trade and in schools for his brilliant collections.
LOOPY LIMERICKS is the first of 4 sparkling new collections of nonsense poems which mark the return of Collins Chidlren’s Books to poetry publishing. John Foster is a well-known poet, teacher, and his book WHAM BAN ORANGUTAN is hugely popular (OUP), and the title of this was taken from his own poem. He is highly-regarded both in the trade and in schools.
The books use both new and existing material with humorous line illustrations throughout.
• Well-know poets included, such as: Roger McGough, Edward Lear, Michael Palin, Kaye Umansky, Spike Milligan and many more
• It is divided into fun sections under the headings Animal Crackers, Dotty Dressers, Dreadful Disasters, Ghostly Groans, Musical Madness, Monstrous Moments, Potty People, Ridiculous Romances, School Sillies, Travellers’ Tales, Tummy Troubles, Vampire Bites and Last Writes.
This gorgeous collection of animal poems from Roger Stevens, Liz Brownlee and Sue Hardy-Dawson will entrance and delight in equal measure. Combining poetry with art, these wonderful words are arranged to cleverly bring a variety of animals to life on the page!
Featuring a full alphabet of animals, birds, and insects, with the odd extinct or imaginary creature thrown in, these beautiful shape poems are a perfect way to introduce children to poetry. Some funny, some serious, there is something here for everyone. Readers can explore buzzing bees, mischievous magpies and spindly spiders all creatively displayed through the use of poems.
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It's not the first time Cole and Crystal have been called chicken, so why have they started clucking? Matt goes to sleep in the guest room and he wakes up a very different person. Zackie thinks it's great when he's given a strange old typewriter - but he better be careful what he types.
Step into a magical new collection of poems for young readers by the highly praised author and illustrator, Hilda Offen. Celebrate the strange and wonderful world around us: the joy of bouncing on a trampoline or the fun of sharing pizza with Attila the Hun and Robin Hood. Anything can happen in this mysteriously marvellous world – even a singing Dodo! Hilda’s debut collection of poetry for children Blue Balloons and Rabbit Ears was shortlisted for the CLiPPA poetry prize. Her second, Message from the Moon, was selected for the Reading Agency’s 2017 Summer Reading Challenge.
