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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.

''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<!-- Donaldson --br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>*[[image:Donaldson_Treasury''To the Maritime Museum''.jpg Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=A Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri|leftrating=4|linkgenre=https://wwwAnthologies|summary=For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on.amazonReading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly.co.uk/gp/product/1509846131?ie}}{{Frontpage|isbn=UTF8&tagStevenson_Garden|title=thebookbag-21&linkCodeA Child's Garden of Verses|author=as2&campRobert Louis Stevenson|rating=1634&creative2|genre=6738&creativeASINAnthologies|summary=1509846131]]Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.}}

===[[A Treasury of Songs by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]]FrontpageSome people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson one of the most successful children's authors, she can also carry a tune. For the past few years she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of a song book. For the first time A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the songs. [[A Treasury of Songs by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Stevenson -->*[[image:Stevenson_Garden.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910959103?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativeisbn=6738&creativeASIN=1910959103]]Donaldson_Treasury ===[[A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry. [[A Child's Garden Treasury of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson|Full Review]]Songs<br> <!-- Woollard -->*[[image:Woollard_Kipling.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509814744?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509814744]] ===[[Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories by Elli Woollard and Marta Altes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Now, whatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have stood the test of time to such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to so many of us, and are known throughout the world. One of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child's sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the elephant got such a thing as his trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. Just in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and it won't be long, trust me), you can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation. [[Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories by Elli Woollard Julia Donaldson and Marta Altes|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Harris -->*[[image:Harris_Rhyming.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509881042?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509881042]] ===[[I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris and Lane Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] In the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authors. You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and people compile their best arrays of very few words in between two covers and bingo, they have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of wit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone's first book of poetry. [[I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris and Lane Smith|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Esiri -->*[[image:Esiri Poem.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509860541?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509860541]] ===[[A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. [[A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Goss -->*[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] ===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Axel Scheffler, Frantz Wittkamp and Roger McGough|title=Fish Dream of Trees|rating=4.5

|summary=Dragons don't bite – ask them to pose for a photo and they burst into a grin. Owls don't bite youSome people have all the skills, either – unless it's the not only is Julia Donaldson one in of the zoo cage you thought was friendly. And while wemost successful children're on that subjects authors, be careful about man-eating plants – they're never friendly given but she can also carry a tune. For the chance past few years, she has adapted many of finding you aloneher most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of a songbook. Such lessons are rife across these pagesFor the first time, A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a singularly odd – and oddly fun – selection CD too of four-line verses for Donaldson singing the young, of any agesongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509836500</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger McGoughWoollard_Kipling|title=80Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes|rating=4.5

|summary=YesNow, Roger McGough has hit 80 – and it's whatever our age, there are probably a query few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have stood the reader's mind as test of time to such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to whether he's 80 years so many of us, and are known throughout the world. One of age or just celebrating 80 booksthem is by Rudyard Kipling, as hewho brought a child's been very highly regarded sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in poetic circles for so long now that both seem plausiblea dozen examples of warm whimsy. In fact, this book is designed shrugging off evolution he got to applaud his ninth decade's arrival due in November 2017 (his birthday convey how the rhino skin is 9/11 – that's the British 9/11so ill-fitting and rumpled, not how the other one)whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and it dutifully compiles 80 poems – with how the elephant got such a bonusthing as his trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, new one on the back covernot knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. You also have to take pause Just in estimating his lifecase these tales are not for your young audience yet (and it won's achievement by thinking that not every book of his ist be long, trust me), like you can start them in early with this one, family-friendly lovely and classroom fodder – but still, such is his output that selecting 80 best must have been no easy featbright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014138882X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo (editor)Harris_Rhyming|title=Greatest Magical Stories|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I might have started this review by saying something like 'only reading can give your world such wonder'. But that's wrong – meeting a selkie can, being sent to sleep m Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for a century can, guessing the name of a dwarven spinner maestro can, Mischievous Kids and so can so much more in the world of children's narrative. This delightful book is jamImmature Grown-packed with quickly-told classic delights, from Norse-based fable to the purest source of pantomime. And everywhere you turn you find something full of wonder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764039</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUps|author=Sarah Webb Chris Harris and Steve McCarthy|title=A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish ChildhoodLane Smith|rating=24.5

|summary=Poetry can come from anywhereIn the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and anything, but this book relies on that which has some link get an audience of twenty people to Irish – buy a Gaelic twinge here, a bit of the auld country now and againpamphlet, and an aspect to it that harks back to the source over the sea to the west of usthey call themselves published authors. There's You get a typical Irish woman's typical cakesimilar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, which is practically inedibleafter all, there is evidence the woman who will be coming round the mountains when she comes was from Erinhave a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and an inciter people compile their best arrays of workers' strikes and suchlike very few words in America, between two covers and there is St Patrickbingo, the Belle of Belfast Citythey have a book, and her southern equivalenttwenty minutes later bingo, Molly Malone – all presented in exuberant full colouryou've read it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177948</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Zetter and Chris White|title=Here Come the Superheroes|rating=4|genre=ChildrenThat's Rhymes and Verse |summary=I'm quite sure you're well aware of most certainly not the spate of superhero movies doing the rounds these dayscase here, for this is crammed with any and every star what has to be considered a major outpouring of the comics page seemingly on the big screen – wit and the smallrhyme. They're everywhereAnd whatever age you are, and their numbers are only growing. But here is a unique chance to meet a few more – Mega Slugwhatever experience with verse you may have, Micro Girl, Magnetic Me, Sister Speed – even one calling himself the Ultimate Superhero. But we're this will not meeting them in a well-established comic universe, or with some horrid and convoluted back story. No, weseem to you like someone're being introduced to them all in the format s first book of verse – and for the young superhero and/or poetry fan this clearly has an instant appeal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991465</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Bently and Charles FugeGoss_600|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Home Full Collection of FriendsTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Bramble Badger was out looking for nuts by Consider the river when the storm broke Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he was so cold that have to hand out each year, were he decided to go straight home. On keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the way he met life of a trail Time Lord and that of some of devastation: Snuffle Dormouse's house has been squashed by a falling treehis friends and enemies. She'd like shelter in Bramble's settAs luck would have it, if he has roomspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. HeAnd if you's re working on a ''little'' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is in shorter timescale, with a mess shorter lifespan, and there isn't much space or dinner availablethinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, but what can you do when a friend well my advice is in need? Next it's Tipper the Toad whose home is full of mud, then Boo pretty much the Hedgehog's nest has been covered by leavessame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Coelho and Kate Milner0956503527|title=Overheard in a Tower Block: PoemsThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips

|summary=I've said it before, and I'll end up saying it again – for sheer variety This collection of contents, and diversity on the page, you can seldom beat nonsense poetry. Here are bullied children, the angst of parental break-up, and hard-done-by gods getting revenge. We're takes in the realm all sorts of mythsubjects, and Richmond Parkfrom wannabe magicians to armpits, and Eastbourne. We're with whale sharks, or stuck in tower blocks, or feeding the seagulls that are with us in the latter but that ought from failed cowboys to be a girl with the formersprings for feet. WeIt're rapping about pubertys all very silly, visiting our absent father to tell him our exam resultsall very nonsensical, and leaving for universitygood fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www. I'm sure you'll agree, that's spread enough for any book, let alone a slender hundred pagesbeatbloodcancers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959588<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda Offen0192731831|title=Message from the MoonSee You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster|rating=4.5

|summary=YesAlways a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, that is really a we'Message ve enjoyed two previous collections from the MoonJohn Foster. '' you receive courtesy of this book. See You also get Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the point of view likes of the sea itselfTony Mitton, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window and other people witnessing geese flying overMichael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and you even get a message from a snailBrian Patten. The range of verses in this book is however but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Moses1849392021|title=Lost Magic: There's An Alien In The Very Best of Brian MosesClassroom|author=Gervase Phinn|rating=43.5

|summary=For ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a poet with the very memorable name collection of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]]school-based poems and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, I have from limericks and cautionary verse to admit never having come across acrostics and haiku, it before, nor having knowingly read any offers a broad overview of his workspoetry. This collection was the perfect place for me to come late to the partyWith themes including school, families, seasons, as it takes the author's own favourites from several previous anthologies of hisBonfire Night, Nativity plays and adds new verses. I read them with very little clue as going to which was which – and certainly couldn't tell having finished the book. There is a lot here that will grab the young schoolchilddentist, but the topics cover so much there really will be a universal 's something to appeal, meaning that a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, even if the author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>to every child.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hardy-Dawson1408304589|title=Where Zebras GoThe Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|author=Penny Dann|rating=34.5

|summary=I doubt if you could have zebrasAll your favourite nursery rhymes are here, foxesfrom Hickory Dickory Dock, the end of the world, penguinsthrough Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, dinosaurs and people out of fairy tale all together if it wasn't in a book of poetry. Even short stories would struggle to fit the breadth of content into as few pages as this volume does. Add in home life, school life and, er, football, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjectsSing A Song Of Sixpence. All have caught the eye of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade – and now she is going With over sixty nursery rhymes to try her damnedest, with some brilliant designchoose from, to make sure they all catch the eye of big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959316</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold0141324511|title=How to be a TigerMichael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things|author=Michael Rosen

|summary=''Wet again, yet again! Down it drips, When he was little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the rain were cross.bad things he'd done and reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'<br>''See d written them all down in a Big Book of Bad Things. Here he presents the branches toss? See eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NO.'' Yeshorrors of being a second late to school, to making a raft, sometimes only to going to a quote will docafé. After allSome bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, we do come to poetry for snappy concisionsome light-hearted, and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>all wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Allie Esiri033051086X|title= A Poem for Every Night of the YearThe World At Our Feet|author=Paul Cookson|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidatingWith the World Cup just around the corner, to children and grown-upsfootball is on everyone's lips. All those school lessons of dissecting poems Paul Cookson, Poet in order to ascertain exactly what Residence at the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill the beauty of a well-written poem[http://www.nationalfootballmuseum. This collection is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetrycom/ National Football Museum], and gives has compiled the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosettibest football poems for young children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley Macdonald0192729934|title= The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for ChildrenWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=John Foster

|summary=William Butler Yeats – take note, kids – the names behind those initials can see you through on many a TV quiz show, so remember them. WB Yeats – take note, parents – for if youSubtitled 're like me you won't ever have considered him for a collection rhymes for the very young readers, if, that is, you'd even considered him whatsoever. This edition is a case somewhat of 'never mind the words, just see you know what you're getting with 'that'Whizz Bang Orang-Utan' artwork' – but I know you. It'll want s a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to read on , and find out what I make of the textcourse whizzing and banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177387</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman0230745865|title=Colin the Cart HorseIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|rating=54

|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying Off the crops, tools and children around back of the farm. Hesuccess of Stephenie Meyer's happy with [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a life boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of labour, resting after his shift the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is done about three every afternoon, and a life collection of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be the consequence love poetry aimed at teenage fans of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>series.