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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So VainSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Julie Fulton Maureen Duffy and Jona JungAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=Miss Dorothy-Jane is very much obsessed with her appearance, so when Sadie's mother always said that she sees there’s was a competition to find Hamilton Shady’s best lady dreamer, her mind never on what she just has to enter! should be doing. She spends ever such a long time perfecting her look but on lives by the way to the contest, disaster strikes. Will River Thames at Greenwich and she realise that there’s more to life than looks, and sacrifice her chance loves 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 addspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=Counting Sheep: A Bedtime Adventure!Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Kathryn Cave and Chris RiddellAllie Esiri|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Tom For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is supposed a fun and easy commitment to be asleeptake on. He’s been tucked up in bed for agesReading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, so long and with over three-hundred poems in fact that it’s now mum and dad’s time here there's bound to go to sleep, but he’s still wide awake. Just count some sheep, his mum says finally. But what should be a calming, boring, wind down activity poem that would put any sane person speaks to sleep does not work for Tom. Because when the sheep come, they steal him off for a bedtime adventureeach reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=WhereA Child's Tim's Ted? It's Time for Bed!Garden of Verses|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell AytoRobert Louis Stevenson|rating=4.52|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=Tim is visiting Grandad and Granny Red on the farm. It’s bed time, but Tim can’t find Ted. He makes them look for him, but they don’t really bother. Just Robert Louis Stevenson was a perfunctory peek behind very versatile writer; he delved deep into the sofa human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and, when that doesn’t unearth the teddy, Tim is packed off Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to bed with representations of the promise that they’ll look again in gothic and the morningpersecuted. But it’s hard to sleep without your toyHe also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', isn’t it? Sobut, deep in the middle of the nightagain, Tim creeps out of bed to go searching once more. He’s he did not alone, though. Grandad and Granny Red might be fast asleep but others on the farm are awake, and like the Pied Piper, Tim soon finds restrict himself with quite a followingto prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007509561</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Pet ItchDonaldson_Treasury|authortitle=Elli Woollard and Elina Ellis|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Most children want a pet at some point. Mossy Monster wants a pet itch more than anything else in the world. But his family (refreshingly consisting of a Granny, an Uncle and a sister) have all sorts of reasons why he shouldn't have one and his sister just seems to delight in tormenting him - as sisters do. But Sister comes though in the end with a crafty plan that will help Mossy get the Itch A Treasury of his dreams, and make sure the grown ups do all the work as well. There is never a dull moment in this book with temper tantrums, rude rhymes and absolutely delightful illustrations. The best part of all though is the way the adults are so easily bamboozled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861079</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Changing Guard at Buckingham PalaceSongs|author=A A Milne Julia Donaldson and E H ShepardAxel Scheffler|rating=54
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Do you remember that time when they were changing guard at Buckingham PalaceSome people have all the skills, and Christopher Robin went down with Alice? Or how about that Christmas when King John (not a good man) asked for lots only is Julia Donaldson one of things the most successful children's authors, but only really wanted she can also carry a bigtune. For the past few years, she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, India-rubber ball? These were or releases them as part of a songbook. For the poems first time, A Treasury of my childhood, so much so that when this new compilation arrived I remembered some Songs brings together several of them by heart even though her books in one omnibus and it must have been also has a good 20 years since I leafed through 'Now We Are Six' and 'When We Were Very Young'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268638</amazonuk>CD too of Donaldson singing the songs.
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|summary=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam Now, whatever our age, there are two dogs with half baked idea for what thy think will be the perfect crime - despite their previous failures. The dogs prepare probably a wonderful feast to lure their intended victims out, making cupcakes, pies, buns and every sort of baked treat you can imaginefew books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have a wonderful stood the test of time baking, but all the while to such an extent that they are planning have become a piece of our culture common to rob all so many of their guests when us, and are known throughout the party 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 full swinga dozen examples of warm whimsy. The feast In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the rhino skin is a huge successso ill-fitting and rumpled, but how the robbery is another disasterwhale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the elephant got such a thing as his trunk. A small act of kindness 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 a heart felt apology results way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. Just in forgivenesscase 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 a wonderful idea for a new careerbright adaptation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Harris_Rhyming|authortitle=Robert L Forbes I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Ronald SearleImmature Grown-Ups|titleauthor=Beast Friends Forever!Chris Harris and Lane Smith|rating=34.5
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|summary=We're never far away from springIn the sniffy world of literary poetry, when the thoughts people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and get an audience of the whole animal kingdom turn twenty people to love - or at leastbuy a pamphlet, one aspect of it we'd better not mention in and they call themselves published authors. You get a book similar thing at times with poetry for the very young such as this is. Skunks need to smell nice– most poetry books, after all, elephants and crickets need to make the right noises to attract have a matelot more blank space in them than routine volumes, while others can just celebrate and people compile their being together best arrays of very few words in different waysbetween two covers and bingo, whether they be real love birds or grizzly bearshave a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. The whole wildlife love life is That's most certainly not the case here, in for this is crammed with what has to be considered a very chaste major outpouring of wit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and harmless mannerwhatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone's first book of poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1590208080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger StevensGoss_600|title=What Rhymes With Sneeze?Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Poems often seem Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to lose their appeal as we get older. They become tricky things 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 must be interpreted pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and understood that of some of his friends and written about enemies. As luck would have it, he has space in essays rather than the instantly enjoyable experiences they are when 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 child. This book contains shorter timescale, with a wide variety of poemsshorter lifespan, written by the author but also some written by other poetsand thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, and the author uses them to show children about well my advice is pretty much the different sorts of poetry, various rhyme schemes and how to go about writing your own poems toosame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408155761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tariq Kurd and Laura Robertson0956503527|title=The Quest There's A Lion In A Vest (Gordon the Goblin)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Gordon the Goblin is more than a little fed up because he is so small and not big and tough like all of the other goblins. They are all fearless hunters and go off on exciting adventures whilst Gordon is left behind. He decides that there is nothing else for it but to set out on his very own quest even though he feels very nervous at the thought of it. He approaches the chief goblin who laughs at him, before deciding to send him off to capture a dragon – not for one moment thinking that Gordon will succeed. It does look like an impossible feat especially as Gordon does lack strength and muscles. Maybe though, he will be able to use his brains and charm rather than relying on brute force. Will Gordon be able to find a dragon and actually persuade him that he wants to be captured and what will happen if he does? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907762051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden|title=Hats Off!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary='Hats Off!' is a wonderfully entertaining book that is written entirely in rhyme. It starts by asking if the reader has ever thought about how many hats they might have been bought and whether a hat actually looks good on their head or not. The author, Neil Griffiths, then goes on to suggest that there are: ''Hats too big, too tight''<br>''and too small,''<br>''Hats that just shouldn't''<br>''be worn at all!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434839</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMy Bathroom|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|title=Sticky EndsGiles Paley-Phillips
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=This is a book collection of funny rhymes and verses nonsense poetry takes in which rather disgusting all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and gruesome things happen from failed cowboys to the characters involved, a girl with each one getting their comeuppancesprings for feet. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from nosesIt's all very silly, all very nonsensical, dripping with blood as they're pinched off right through and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to Father Christmas using the toilet[http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192731831|title=See You Later, Escalator
|author=John Foster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731831</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Paley-Phillips1849392021|title=There's A Lion An Alien In My Bathroom|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956503527</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Classroom
|author=Gervase Phinn
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of school-based poems, and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, to acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to the dentist, there's something to appeal to every child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1408304589|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby
|author=Penny Dann
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=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 beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things
|author=Michael Rosen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things he'd done and reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a Big Book of Bad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the horrors of being a second late to school, to making a raft, to going to a café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=The World At Our Feet
|author=Paul Cookson
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=With the World Cup just around the corner, football is on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at the [http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|author=John Foster
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', you know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to, and of course whizzing and banging orang-utans.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.
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