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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen Sadie and Korky Paul (illustrator)the Sea Dogs|titleauthor=You Tell Me!Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=23.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=All life can 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''<br>''When all the houses cowered in poetry – the hectic schedule of a person forever popping somewheregloom, ''<br>''To the policeman living in a world of bad puns, Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an uncle who may or not have brought memories of sniper fire ancient sailing ship and went back from warregularly. All of life One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it seems 's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on this evidence can be poetry – football results, memoir, advice to counter bulliesshow) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. All people When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in this life can be poets – and the way I reacted to midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a lot world of this collectiondolphins, pirates, perhaps it's just as wellmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804446</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)Esiri Poem|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around A Poem for Every Day of the WorldYear|author=Allie Esiri
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=I'm thinking that of all the kinds of books that have ability For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to surprisestart, high up this is a fun and easy commitment to take on the list are poetry books. You can generally see the style, idea or genre of Reading a novel from the cover, and beyond poem a few shocks and twists nothing changes. But day does not take poetry on boardlong, and there are surprises on each page – the concentrated form of the literature surely gives the author more chance to bedazzlemere minutes, 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 Rosenover three-hundred poems in here there's]] introduction spoke bound 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 be a small, succinct and varied little volume would have poem that much capacity speaks to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter de la Mare|title=Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes|rating=3|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It was a surprise for me to read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much of his life in and around London – born at least in what is now the borough of Greenwich, passing away in Twickenhameach reader directly. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected here, it's as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything of the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on the idyllic and pastoral, and in following on so closely in the footsteps of his debut collection, 'Songs of Childhood' from 1902, still very, very much Victorian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-AllenStevenson_Garden|title=The SquickerwonkersA Child's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=42|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds Robert Louis Stevenson was a strange attraction on very versatile writer; he delved deep into the edge human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but for her shiny red balloon. She appears he did not restrict himself to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on representations of the stage within, gothic and a disembodied voice introduces them all to herthe persecuted. They are the SquickerwonkersHe also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, and as we are about he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>write poetry.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Donaldson_Treasury|title=The Illustrated Old PossumA Treasury of Songs|author=T S Eliot Julia Donaldson and Nicolas BentleyAxel Scheffler
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|summary=This title Some people have all the skills, not only is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was Julia Donaldson one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publishermost successful children's sonauthors, his godsonbut she can also carry a tune. For the past few years, some writings based on jellicle cats she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webberplays them during open readings, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me or releases them as well – I certainly had a copy, part of a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musicalsongbook. And with For the excellent writing here and the ability first time, A Treasury of it to delight so many people Songs brings together several of so many ages, her books in one omnibus and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the power to be important to a future generationsongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber ChildrenRudyard Kipling's Classics)Just So Stories|author=Edward Lear Elli Woollard and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Marta Altes
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|summary=There was Now, whatever our age, there are probably a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When 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 asked 'Was it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'Therehave 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 very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Owl 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 Pussyrhino skin is so ill-cat|author=Edward Learfitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, Charlotte Voake and Julia Donaldson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is how the elephant got such a poem which has always resonated with mething as his trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, because there is not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – and way before he saw something about it which is nothing short of magical. It taps into print that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, or to pretend they fly to the moon when they go to sleephas lasted ever since. This edition is beautifully laid out, Just in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and I would happily buy it won't be long, trust me), you can start them in a heartbeatearly with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Seen and Not Heard|author=Katie May GreenFrontpage|ratingisbn=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. '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 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>}} {{newreviewHarris_Rhyming|title=The It DoesnI't Matter Suit m Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Other StoriesImmature Grown-Ups|author=Sylvia Plath Chris Harris and David RobertsLane Smith
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|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf In the sniffy world of my toddler. See the word ‘Treasury’ and I expect him literary poetry, people seem to be treated able to knock together a volume he will want dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to pass on to his own children. Anything less buy a pamphlet, and I am disappointedthey call themselves published authors. I’m relieved to You get one a similar thing straight from at times with poetry for the start. This one’s young – most poetry books, after all, have a gem - a gorgeous joy 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 that , and twenty minutes later bingo, you will just want to keep opening again and again've read it. It’s That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a question major outpouring of whether it is worthy of hypothetical grandchildrenwit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, it’s more a question this will not seem to you like someone's first book of how well thumbed it will be when they get itpoetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=What A Wonderful World|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim Hopgood|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''What a Wonderful World'' is a book and accompanying CD set based on the Louis Armstrong song. In fact it is the book and CD of that song as it’s not a new story or a padded out version of the original, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyrics.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewGoss_600|title=The Twelve Days Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of ChristmasTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=Britta TeckentrupJames Goss and Russell T Davies
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|summary=You know Consider the song alreadyDoctor. 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, but this peep-through book recreates say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the magic life of the ''Twelve Days a Time Lord and that of some of Christmashis friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has 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'' in re working on a shorter timescale, with a beautiful shorter lifespan, and special waythinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0956503527|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingGiles Paley-Phillips
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|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=When it comes This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to nursery rhymesarmpits, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as and from failed cowboys to a baby is gospelgirl with springs for feet. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activitiesIt's all very silly, but at heart I still can't quite come to terms with the librarian saying 'washed ''the spider'' out as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'. Sadlyall very nonsensical, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''The Oxford Treasury good fun. A proportion of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thisprofits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Mad About Mega Beasts!0192731831|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)|ratingtitle=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildingsSee You Later, big vehicles, big animals. However, I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – mega. What beasts, both from now and from the past, are large enough to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A is Amazing!: Poems about FeelingsEscalator|author=Wendy Cooling and Piet GroblerJohn Foster
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|summary=How do you get young children interested in Always a sucker for a good poetry? I guess you hope that you donanthology here at Bookbag, we'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 homeve enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavour'See You Later, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just Escalator'' continues in casethe same vein, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilationwith poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and upMichael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and provide for many a read of many a different style of verseBrian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Kicking A Ball1849392021|authortitle=Allan Ahlberg|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThere's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There is a boy who likes kicking a ball. It’s the best thing 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, of course, but he’s not into tennis or volleyball or golf or cricket or hockey or netball or playing catch with a child in a wheelchair (nice touch). No, kicking a ball is where it’s at.|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 at playgroup anyway. No need to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’. An Alien In The poem in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and features the inimitable scoundrel of the title, ''Macavity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!Classroom|author=Pip JonesGervase Phinn
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|summary=Meet Ava. She''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a girl collection of great imagination school-based poems and a big heartpoems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, who brings an invisible cat home from limericks and cautionary verse to mum one dayacrostics and haiku, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bondoffers a broad overview of poetry. But when mess gets madeWith themes including school, families, and mistakes about the house happenseasons, Ava declares innocenceBonfire Night, Nativity plays and blames it all on going to the cat – and youdentist, there'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>s something to appeal to every child.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=What Does the Fox Say?1408304589|authortitle=Ylvis and Svein Nyhus|rating=3|genre=Children's The Orchard Book Of Nursery 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 PoetatoFor Your Baby|author=John HegleyPenny Dann
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|summary=In this collection John Hegley says that poetry is like music in that to understand it 'sometimes…you need more than one go 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 All your favourite nursery rhymes are poems for everyone and contain a lot for readers 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 appearancehere, 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 contestfrom Hickory Dickory Dock, disaster strikes. Will she realise that there’s more to life than looksthrough Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, 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. Sing A nice surprise, I should add.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=What can you Stack on the Back of a Yak?|author=Alison Green and Adam Stower|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=You might be wondering why anyone would want to stack anything on the back of a yak, but the answer is simple. In this adorable tale, Captain Quack and the Yak (you’ve guessed it, this is a rhyming one) deliver post to the top of a mountainSong Of Sixpence. Along the way the Yak likes With over sixty nursery rhymes to play, and, well, deviate choose from the track, and no matter how hard he tries, Captain Quack cannot control him. Uh oh. One day, all the Yak ends up with a rather more interesting load than his usual parcels and boxes and sacks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Counting Sheep: A Bedtime Adventure!|author=Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Tom is supposed to be asleep. He’s been tucked up in bed for ages, so long big names are presented in fact that it’s now mum and dad’s time 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 beautiful compendium that would put any sane person to sleep does not work you'll treasure for Tom. Because when the sheep come, they steal him off for a bedtime adventureyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Where's Tim's Ted? ItMichael Rosen's Time for Bed!Big Book of Bad Things|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell AytoMichael Rosen
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|summary=Poems often seem to lose their appeal as we get older. They become tricky When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things that must be interpreted and understood he'd done and reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written about them all down in essays rather than the instantly enjoyable experiences they are when you're a childBig Book of Bad Things. This book contains a wide variety Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of poemschildhood, written by from the author but also some written by other poetshorrors of being a second late to school, and the author uses them to show children about the different sorts of poetrymaking a raft, various rhyme schemes and how to go about writing your own poems toogoing to a café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408155761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tariq Kurd and Laura Robertson033051086X|title=The Quest In A Vest (Gordon the Goblin)World At Our Feet|author=Paul Cookson
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|summary=This is a book of funny rhymes and verses in which rather disgusting and gruesome things happen to With the World Cup just around the characters involvedcorner, with each one getting their comeuppancefootball is on everyone's lips. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from nosesPaul Cookson, dripping with blood as they're pinched off right through to Father Christmas using Poet in Residence at the toilet[http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|author=John Foster
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|summary=This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjectsSubtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl you know what you're getting with springs for feet''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's all very sillya poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, all very nonsensicalwhat they get up to, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia course whizzing and Lymphoma Research]banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956503527</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gervase Phinn0230745865|title=There's An Alien In The ClassroomMy Sky at Twilight|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|rating=3.54
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|summary=''ThereOff the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's An Alien In The Classroom'' is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a collection of school-based poems, and poems boom in vampire novels aimed at school-age childrenteenagers. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to acrostics and haiku, come out of this craze as it offers is a broad overview collection of love poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to aimed at teenage fans of the dentist, there's something to appeal to every childseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392021</amazonuk>
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