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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman0995647895|title=Colin Sadie and the Cart HorseSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=Meet Colin. HeSadie's mother always said that she was a perfectly regular cart horsedreamer, carrying her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the cropsRiver 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''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom, tools ''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and children around went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the farmone where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. HeWhen she woke (hard floors don's happy with t make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a life world of labourdolphins, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoonpirates, mermaids and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eatingtreasure. What could be the consequence of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Bolam Esiri Poem|title=Let's Sing and PlayA Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Monkeys are vocal animals and if you walk through the jungle you may hear them scream. Perhaps they have just slid down an elephant's trunk or maybe they are just attempting For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to sing? Having a child means that you will start to hear the same rhymes over and over again, so if it takes this is a few cheeky monkeys fun and easy commitment to teach us take on. Reading a poem a few new onesday does not take long, mere minutes, I am happy and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem thatspeaks to each reader directly. Just don't let them jump on top of my car at the Safari Park.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286979</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Allcock and Gina MaldonadoStevenson_Garden|title=Animal Magic A Child's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=4.52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Having read many childrenRobert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''s books in recent years I have come to know the concept The Strange Case of nonsense rhymes. I donDoctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde''t mean silly adventures that happen but he did not restrict himself to be written in rhyming couplets; I mean bad rhymes. The best books for sharing should have fluidity to them, representations of the story simply rolls off gothic and the tongue persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as you turn the pages. Too many times I have read a book in which the rhymes just don't scan 'Treasure Island'' and you end up tripping over your words. So as this book is part of the ''Nonsense Animal RhymesKidnapped'' series, does the nonsense come from the story being daftbut, again, or he did not restrict himself to prose writing because the rhymes are nonsensical?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862326</amazonuk>here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elli Woollard Donaldson_Treasury|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Pirate) A Treasury of Songs|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

|summary=Poor Hendrix. He has a nice life and a nice farmerSome people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson one of the most successful children's fieldauthors, but he's boredshe can also carry a tune. All the excitement of For the world is just too far awaypast few years, except for the time the fairground came to town, complete with Ferris wheel, rides, stilted jugglers and the Tumbling Pebbles playing a gig. He could hear all she has adapted many of their concert – even dancing her most popular stories into songs and prancing around his field plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of a resultsongbook. But little did he know what would happen when For the lead guitarist's instrument literally fell off the back first time, A Treasury of Songs brings together several of their tour bus, her books in one omnibus and Hendrix had it also has a chance to find CD too of Donaldson singing the music within…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315402</amazonuk>songs.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Lucy RichardsWoollard_Kipling|title=Night Monkey, Day MonkeyRudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes|rating=4.5

|summary=A night monkey should only be awake in the night. A day monkey should only be awake Now, whatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in the dayour childhoods. They should never have to experience stood the 'wrong' side test of their routine. But what happens when time to such an extent that they each in turn wake the other uphave become a piece of our culture common to so many of us, and night monkey has to suffer are known throughout the brightness world. One of daythem 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 day monkey rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, how the spooky life without sunlight? Well this lovely book is what happens – proof positive that despite whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the old adageelephant got such a thing as his trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, polar opposites can be not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a twain book-length collection – and way before he saw something into print that can meet – has lasted ever since. Just in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and just about get along perfectly wellit won't be long, trust me), thank youcan start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip JonesHarris_Rhyming|title=Squishy McFluffI'm Just No Good At Rhyming: Seaside Rescue! And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups|author=Chris Harris and Lane Smith

|summary=We can see In the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up get an audience of twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and now he has school work to dothey call themselves published authors. But he's You get a lucky little boy as he has Winnie similar thing at times with poetry for the Pooh to help him. Or is he luckyyoung – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, given that Winnie is also known as 'the Bear and people compile their best arrays of very little brain'? Actuallyfew words in between two covers and bingo, Pooh has they have a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's most certainly not the book one daycase here, looking for his friend Pigletthis is crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of wit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and sat down on some whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone's first book of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mindpoetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H ShepardGoss_600|title=When Doctor Who: Now We Were Very YoungAre Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|rating=4.5

|summary=I've never been fond of poetry: there's something missing in my soul as I cannot see Consider the benefits of saying something in verse form when it could be expressed more simplyDoctor. I often wish that I was different Just how many birthday and just occasionally some verse will Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch me: it has happened with [[:Category:Wendy Cope|Wendy Cope]] and now with this delightful volume from A A Milne. As I read there was a curious mixture even half of ''good'' memories from childhood (and they were all too rare) and new material which struck his companions? He would certainly need a chord. The 'decorations' by E H Shepard didn't do any harm either!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280859</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clement C Moore and Max Marshall|title= The Night Before Christmas|rating= 5|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary= Everyone knows the classic story few novelty gifts for some of the night before Christmasthem, but as a child I never had it in a standalone book like this andsay, it seemsfor example, I never knew there was quite as much to whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the tale. If you don't already own life of a version, this new release is a must buy for the presentation aloneTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Roger Stevens|title=I Wish I had a Pirate Hat|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I was worriedAs luck would have it, initiallyhe has space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, that all these poems were going so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be about pirates. How would Roger Stevens keep the interest going if he was confined to the staple diet of treasure maps and skull pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and cross bones? In fact there are only three pirate poems but they are the first three and the book cover gives little indication of the variety withinget himself ready. And if you''I Wish I had re working on a Pirate Hat'' contains forty five poems grouped into Fun Timeshorter timescale, School Timewith a shorter lifespan, Home Time. No poem is longer than a page and there’s sufficient range of form and tone to keep thinking perhaps just one reading. There’s also sufficient consistency to allow one to drop in at random and with confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''In between the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seasgift season ahead,''<br>''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance well my advice is pretty much the breezesame.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross0956503527|title=Bedtime RhymesThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips

|summary=It is getting late so it is time This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to start the bedtime routine; upstairs a girl with springs for a washfeet. It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, clean your teeth and then into your PJsgood fun. Settle into bed and what now? A story perhaps, or some night time nursery rhymesproportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers. Is it just me or do many of these bedtime tales feel a lot more sinister than their daytime cousins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440473<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross0192731831|title=Playtime RhymesSee You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster

|summary=Great news! Your friends are having Always a baby! That pretty much means that everybody you know has sucker for a good poetry anthology here at least one or Bookbag, we've enjoyed two rug rats crawling around previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the place. It’s all well and goodsame vein, but how can you possibly come up with another present for a baby? Thankfullypoems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, great books and wonderful nursery rhymes are always in fashion – combine the two Michelle Magorian and you have a gift that you may just want to keep for yourselfBrian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)1849392021|title=You Tell Me!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=All life can be in poetry – the hectic schedule of a person forever popping somewhere, the policeman living in a world of bad puns, an uncle who may or not have brought memories of sniper fire back from war. All of life it seems on this evidence can be poetry – football results, memoir, advice to counter bullies. All people in this life can be poets – and the way I reacted to a lot of this collection, perhaps itThere's just as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804446</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAn Alien In The Classroom|author=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldGervase Phinn|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I'm thinking that of all the kinds of books that have ability to surprise, high up on the list are poetry books3. You can generally see the style, idea or genre of a novel from the cover, and beyond a few shocks and twists nothing changes. But take poetry on board, and there are surprises on each page – the concentrated form of the literature surely gives the author more chance to bedazzle, to pull the rug over the readers' eyes and to generally give something the audience didn't expect. And so it is with this book, for while [[:Category:Michael Rosen|Michael Rosen's]] introduction spoke to us of nursery rhymes, I had already flicked through and still was not expecting a spread of them. Even when he itemised the various kinds I didn't foresee finding them all on the pages, although that is what I got. Who would have thought that such a small, succinct and varied little volume would have that much capacity to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Walter de la Mare|title=Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes|rating=35

|summary=It was ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a surprise for me to read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much collection of his life in school-based poems and around London – born poems aimed at least school-age children. Taking in what is now the borough of Greenwichall forms, passing away in Twickenham. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected herefrom limericks and cautionary verse to acrostics and haiku, it's as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything offers a broad overview of the subjects is manmadepoetry. The concentration is fully on the idyllic and pastoralWith themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and in following on so closely in going to the footsteps of his debut collectiondentist, there'Songs of Childhood' from 1902, still very, very much Victorians something to appeal to every child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen1408304589|title=The Squickerwonkers|rating=4|genre=Children's Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes and Verse|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, and a disembodied voice introduces them all to her. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Illustrated Old Possum|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This title is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publisher's son, his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webber, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me as well – I certainly had a copy, a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musical. And with the excellent writing here and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ages, it has the power to be important to a future generation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)For Your Baby|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Penny Dann

|summary=There was All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little here they could tweak!beautiful compendium that you'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>ll treasure for years.

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Owl and the Pussy-cat|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake and Julia Donaldson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is a poem which has always resonated with me, because there is something about it which is nothing short of magical. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, or to pretend they fly to the moon when they go to sleep. This edition is beautifully laid out, and I would happily buy it in a heartbeat.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview0141324511|title=Seen and Not Heard|author=Katie May Green|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=During the day the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and not heard for they are images captured on canvas. Michael Rosen'Don’t they look so sweet and good, so well behaved like children should?' They certainly look a picture, picked out in the silvery moonlight. As night sets in and all is quiet, only the black cat and a handful s Big Book of mice are there to see the portraits come to life and step out of their frames. What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other StoriesBad Things|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsMichael Rosen

|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf of my toddler. See When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the word ‘Treasury’ bad things he'd done and I expect reminded him to be treated to of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a volume Big Book of Bad Things. Here he will want to pass on to his own children. Anything less and I am disappointed. I’m relieved to get one thing straight presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the start. This one’s a gem - a gorgeous joy horrors of being a book that you will just want second late to school, to keep opening again and again. It’s not making a question of whether it is worthy of hypothetical grandchildrenraft, it’s more to going to a question of how well thumbed it will be when they get itcafé. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=What A Wonderful The WorldAt Our Feet|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim HopgoodPaul Cookson

|summary=You know With the song alreadyWorld Cup just around the corner, but this peep-through book recreates the magic of the ''Twelve Days of Christmas'football is on everyone' s lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in a beautiful and special wayResidence at the [http://www.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862<nationalfootballmuseum.com/amazonuk>National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingJohn Foster

|summary=How do you get Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young children interested in poetry? I guess '', you hope that know what you don't have to – you want them to be aware of clapping and skipping songs by nature, and of lyrics to music heard in school and at homere getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. Surely itIt's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavour, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in caseanthology, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilationwith sweet poems about kids, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and what they get upto, and provide for many a read of many a different style of versecourse whizzing and banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=Kicking A BallIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Allan AhlbergGaby Morgan (editor)|rating=54

|summary=There is a boy who likes kicking a ball. It’s Off the best thing back of all for him, and there’s nothing he’d rather be doing, nowhere he’d rather be. We see his bedroom and this has some football albums in, and a football table, but his interest is definitely with playing rather than being on the side lines. There are other ball sports too, success of course, but he’s not into tennis or volleyball or golf or cricket or hockey or netball or playing catch with Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a child boom in a wheelchair (nice touch). No, kicking a ball is where it’s vampire novels aimed atteenagers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Macavity,the Mystery Cat|author=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than to sit down with a tome of good poetry. Currently he is reading T.S. Eliot. Well, that’s what I will be telling them down In My Sky at playgroup anyway. No need to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’. The poem in this volume Twilight is actually just perhaps one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and features the inimitable scoundrel most unusual books to come out of the title, ''Macavity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!|author=Pip Jones|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Ava. She's a girl of great imagination and a big heart, who brings an invisible cat home to mum one day, who humours Ava by feeding this craze as it invisible food and letting the two bond. But when mess gets made, and mistakes about the house happen, Ava declares innocence, and blames it all on the cat – and you'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=What Does the Fox Say?|author=Ylvis and Svein Nyhus|rating=3|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I know an 18 month old who is ace at animal noises. He knows what the cat who lives with him says, but also knows what dogs say and monkeys say and owls say and cows say. I’ve not asked him if he knows was foxes say, but I imagine he doesn’t. I mean, do you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121941</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I am a Poetato|author=John Hegley|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=In this collection John Hegley says that of love poetry is like music in that to understand it 'sometimes…you need more than one go aimed at it'. There is certainly more going on with John Hegley’s poems than a first read through reveals. So though 'I am a Poetato' has been published as a book for children, these are poems for everyone and contain a lot for readers teenage fans of any age to enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803970</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So Vain|author=Julie Fulton and Jona Jung|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Miss Dorothy-Jane is very much obsessed with her appearance, so when she sees there’s a competition to find Hamilton Shady’s best lady she just has to enter! She spends ever such a long time perfecting her look but on the way to the contest, disaster strikesseries. Will she realise that there’s more to life than looks, and sacrifice her chance to win a meet and greet with the Queen (yes, her Majesty!)? Can she do the right thing, even if she gets all dirty and dishevelled in the process? I’m sure you can guess the outcome, but the final ending was a surprise, even for me. A nice surprise, I should add.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>