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Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
This is a collection of classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives. Jacqueline Wilson has taken great delight in selecting and arranging the book and you can hear her voice in the beautiful poems she has chosen making it a truly personal collection.
5) You tell me!
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Football, first love, teachers and tongue-twisters - this is a poetry collection by two of the funniest, most famous poets writing today.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Here come the creatures, one, two, three - A crocodile's holding hands with a flea. This volume contains a varied collection of poems for very young children, suitable for early years and Key Stage One. Funny, sad, silly, sing-along, the poems are about friends and families, pets and creatures, school, space travel - and more. There is something for everyone in this book - with lots of action and joining in.
7) The hat
Author
Publisher
Faber
Description
In this collection of poetry for children, Carol Ann Duffy takes us on a mud-and-all ramble through sand, socks, songs and schoolrooms. Charming and witty, infectiously enjoyable, these poems take pleasure in the discovery of imaginative worlds, from the loneliness of ghosts and ghouls to a shopping trip by Manchunian cows.
10) Jabberwocky
Author
Series
Publisher
Miles Kelly
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Introducing the wonderful world of verse to young children. The book includes comical limericks, enchanting magical poems and silly nonsense riddles.
13) Cockadoodle moo
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Description
This is a collection of poems for very young children. Published as a companion volume to the best-selling Twinkle, Twinkle, Chocolate Bar, and Whizz Bang Orang-Utan, it is designed first to be read aloud then for children to read to themselves.
14) Noisy poems
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Animals laughing, motors roaring, the squeak of new shoes, the whisity whirr of a washing machine, this book is packed with noisy poems by such poets as Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Causley, Spike Milligan and Roger McGough.
15) Revolting rhymes
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2008
Description
This is a collection of comic and often gory versions of popular fairy tales. Meet Cinderella, a young woman who wants to marry a nice ordinary man; and Goldilocks, that house-breaker who gobbles up your porridge and then breaks up the Chippendale.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Zoom around this book to find aliens, stars and a greedy robot - as well as funny faces and a ball that won't bounce back! This is a fun and playful new collection by an award-winning poet who knows how to inspire and delight very young children.
19) Scary raps
Author
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Tony Mitton retells popular stories in the style of Rap in these entertaining collections that cover four characters from the genre of horror: Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dracula and the Werewolf.
Author
Series
Children's poetry library volume 14
Publisher
Salt
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Two friends, Emma and Josh, visit Fangster's Fair one evening and take a ride on the spooky Ghost Train. They experience shocks, scares and surprises when encountering the dark tunnel's weird, wild and wacky inhabitants. But will the scary train ride ever end, and will Emma and Josh survive to tell the tale?