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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman|title=Hendrix the Rocking Horse (Fables from the Stables 2)|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poor Hendrix. He has a nice life and a nice farmer's field, but he's bored. All the excitement of the world is just too far away, 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 of their concert – even dancing and prancing around his field as a result. But little did he know what would happen when the lead guitarist's instrument literally fell off the back of their tour bus, and Hendrix had a chance to find the music within…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315402</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Donaldson and Lucy Richards|title=Night Monkey, Day Monkey|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=A night monkey should only be awake in the night. A day monkey should only be awake in the day. They should never have to experience the 'wrong' side of their routine. But what happens when they each in turn wake the other up, and night monkey has to suffer the brightness of day, and the day monkey the spooky life without sunlight? Well this lovely book is what happens – proof positive that despite the old adage, polar opposites can be a twain that can meet – and just about get along perfectly well, thank you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283343</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Pip Jones|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! |rating=4.5|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary= Ava and her invisible cat – Squishy McFluff – are off to the seaside for their latest adventure together. They have great fun digging in the sand towards Australia and sitting on the beach eating ice cream. (Although the adults who fall in their hole and the ice cream man may not share their enthusiasm.) Everything is purr-fect until invisible cat Squishy decides to chase an invisible fish. Now it's up to Ava to stage a 'seaside rescue'…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320686</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard0995647895|title=Now We Are Six|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes Sadie and Verse|summary=We can see the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up and now he has school work to do. But he's a lucky little boy as he has Winnie the Pooh to help him. Or is he lucky, given that Winnie is also known as 'the Bear of very little brain'? Actually, Pooh has a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one day, looking for his friend Piglet, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=A A Milne Maureen Duffy and E H Shepard|title=When We Were Very YoungAnita Joice|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I've never been fond of poetry: there's something missing in my soul as I cannot see the benefits of saying something in verse form when it could be expressed more simply. I often wish that I was different and just occasionally some verse will 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 of ''good'' memories from childhood (and they were all too rare) and new material which struck a chord3. 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 of the night before Christmas, but as a child I never had it in a standalone book like this and, it seems, I never knew there was quite as much to the tale. If you don't already own a version, this new release is a must buy for the presentation alone.|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 worried, initially, that all these poems were going to be about pirates. How would Roger Stevens keep the interest going if he was confined to the staple diet of treasure maps and skull 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 within. ''I Wish I had a Pirate Hat'' contains forty five poems grouped into Fun Time, School Time, Home Time. No poem is longer than a page and there’s sufficient range of form and tone to keep 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

|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. ''In between the beach hutsHer class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''Where When all the white sands meet houses cowered in the seasgloom,''<br>''The heather meets To the sand dunesMaritime Museum''<br>''And long grasses dance the breeze.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>}}{{newreview |author=Tony Ross|title=Bedtime Rhymes|rating=3Her imagination was fired.5|genre=Children She's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It is getting late so it is time d love to start sail the bedtime routine; upstairs for a wash, clean your teeth oceans on an ancient sailing ship and then into your PJswent back regularly. Settle into bed and what now? A story perhaps, or some night time nursery rhymes. Is One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it just me or do many of these bedtime tales feel a lot more sinister than their daytime cousins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440473</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Ross|title=Playtime Rhymes|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and Verse|summary=Great news! Your friends are having a baby! That pretty much means that everybody you know has at least one or two rug rats crawling around the placeattendant's warning shout. It’s all well and good, but how can you possibly come up with another present for a baby? Thankfully, great books and wonderful nursery rhymes are always When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in fashion – combine the two and you midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a gift that you may just want to keep for yourselfworld of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)Esiri Poem|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 A Poem for Every Day 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 it's just as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804446</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYear|author=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldAllie Esiri

|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>each reader directly.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter de la MareStevenson_Garden|title=Peacock Pie: A Book Child's Garden of RhymesVerses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=32|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=It Robert Louis Stevenson was a surprise for me 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 read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much representations of his life in the gothic and around London – born at least in what is now the borough of Greenwich, passing away in Twickenhampersecuted. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected here, itHe also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything of the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on the idyllic 'Treasure Island'' and pastoral, and in following on so closely in the footsteps of his debut collection, 'Songs of Childhood' from 1902Kidnapped'', still verybut, again, very much Victorianhe did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-AllenDonaldson_Treasury|title=The SquickerwonkersA Treasury of Songs|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

|summary=Selma Some people have all the skills, not only is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on Julia Donaldson one of the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraptionmost successful children's authors, which but she enters, alone but for her shiny red ballooncan also carry a tune. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on For the stage withinpast 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 disembodied voice introduces them all to hersongbook. They are For the Squickerwonkersfirst time, A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>songs.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=The Illustrated Old PossumRudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=T S Eliot Elli Woollard and Nicolas BentleyMarta Altes|rating=4.5

|summary=This title is clearly 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 importance our culture common to so many of us, and are known throughout the house of Faberworld. To this day their puff mentions it was one One of their first childrens' booksthem is by Rudyard Kipling, after the author sent his publisherwho brought a child's son, sense of wonder and his godson, some writings based on jellicle cats and some own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a dozen examples of their scrapeswarm whimsy. It's clearly a book that's important In shrugging off evolution he got to Andrew Lloyd Webberconvey how the rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, toohow the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, but we'll gloss speedily over thatand how the elephant got such a thing as his trunk. It's a book that was important to me In doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing she would die as well – I certainly had a copy, child long before he produced a thin, barely illustrated, oldbook-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musicallength collection – and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. And with the excellent writing here Just in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and the ability of it to delight so many people of so many ageswon't be long, trust me), it has the power to be important to a future generationyou can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Harris_Rhyming|title=I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups|author=Edward Lear Chris Harris and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Lane Smith

|summary=There was 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 man whose critique<br>Of this – 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 was submitted one week<br>When they asked , and twenty minutes later bingo, you'Was ve read it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There. That's very little most certainly not the case here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Owl and the Pussy-cat|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake and Julia Donaldson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This for this is crammed with what has to be considered a poem which has always resonated with me, because there is something about it which is nothing short major outpouring of magicalwit and rhyme. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymesAnd whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, or this will not seem 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 heartbeatyou like someone's first book of poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Goss_600|title=Seen and Not HeardDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=Katie May GreenJames Goss and Russell T Davies

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=During the day Consider the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and not heard for they are images captured on canvasDoctor. 'Don’t they look so sweet Just how many birthday and goodChristmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, so well behaved like children shouldwere he to keep in touch with even half of his companions?' They He would certainly look need a picturefew novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, picked out in whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the silvery moonlightlife of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As night sets luck would have it, he has space in his TARDIS to stock up in and all is quietadvance, so my advice to him – sorry, only the black cat and a handful of mice are there her – would be to see the portraits come pop along to life his local Earth-based book emporium and step out of their framesget himself ready. What mischief can these children from across 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 ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>same.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories0956503527|author=Sylvia Plath and David Roberts|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=IThere've said it before and I'll say it again, that you should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment and greater pleasures by staying outside the canon. And the lovely people at Faber and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick to [[The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think of a better place to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Over the Hills and Far Aways A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Elizabeth Hammill (Editor)Giles Paley-Phillips|rating=3.5

|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of my toddler. See the word ‘Treasury’ subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and I expect him to be treated from failed cowboys to a volume he will want to pass on to his own childrengirl with springs for feet. Anything less It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, and I am disappointed. I’m relieved to get one thing straight from the startgood fun. This one’s a gem - a gorgeous joy A proportion of a book that you will just want profits are being donated to keep opening again and again[http://www. It’s not a question of whether it is worthy of hypothetical grandchildren, it’s more a question of how well thumbed it will be when they get itbeatbloodcancers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=What A Wonderful World0192731831|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim Hopgood|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summarytitle=''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 originalSee You Later, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyrics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Twelve Days of ChristmasEscalator|author=Britta TeckentrupJohn Foster

|summary=You know the song alreadyAlways a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, but this peep-through book recreates the magic of the we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''Twelve Days of ChristmasSee You Later, Escalator'' continues in a beautiful the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and special wayBrian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849392021|title=There's An Alien In The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesClassroom|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingGervase Phinn

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymes, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as a baby is gospel. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activities, but at heart I still can't quite come to terms with the librarian saying 'washed 'There'the spiders An Alien In The Classroom'' out as opposed is a collection of school-based poems and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. SadlyWith themes including school, families, Williams’ seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and King’s compendium going to the dentist, there''The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thiss something to appeal to every child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Mad About Mega Beasts!1408304589|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)|rating=5|genretitle=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Sharing|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildings, 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 FeelingsYour Baby|author=Wendy Cooling and Piet GroblerPenny Dann

|summary=How do you get young children interested in poetry? I guess you hope that you don't have to – you want them to be aware of clapping and skipping songs by natureAll your favourite nursery rhymes are here, and of lyrics to music heard in school and at home. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavourfrom Hickory Dickory Dock, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in case, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilation, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven Little Bo Peep and upThree Blind Mice, and provide for many a read of many a different style of verse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Kicking to Sing A Ball|author=Allan Ahlberg|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There is a boy who likes kicking a ballSong Of Sixpence. It’s the best thing of With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, 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 big names 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 presented in a wheelchair (nice touch). No, kicking a ball is where it’s atbeautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Macavity,the Mystery CatMichael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things|author=T S Eliot and Arthur RobinsMichael Rosen

|summary=Meet Ava. SheWhen 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 girl Big Book of great imagination and Bad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the horrors of being a big heartsecond late to school, who brings an invisible cat home to mum one daymaking a raft, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bondto going to a café. But when mess gets madeSome bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, and mistakes about the house happensome touching, Ava declares innocencesome light-hearted, 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>wonderful.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=What Does the Fox Say?The World At Our Feet|author=Ylvis and Svein NyhusPaul Cookson|rating=34

|summary=I know an 18 month old who With the World Cup just around the corner, football is ace on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at animal noisesthe [http://www. He knows what the cat who lives with him says, but also knows what dogs say and monkeys say and owls say and cows saynationalfootballmuseum. I’ve not asked him if he knows was foxes saycom/ National Football Museum], but I imagine he doesn’thas compiled the best football poems for young children. I mean, do you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121941</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=I am a PoetatoWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=John HegleyFoster|rating=43.5

|summary=In this collection John Hegley says that poetry is like music in that to understand it Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young''sometimes…you need more than one go at it, you know what you'. There is certainly more going on re getting with John Hegley’s poems than a first read through reveals''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. So though It'I am s a Poetato' has been published as a book for childrenpoetry anthology, these are with sweet poems for everyone about kids, what they get up to, and contain a lot for readers of any age to enjoycourse whizzing and banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So VainIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Julie Fulton and Jona JungGaby Morgan (editor)

|summary=Tom is supposed to be asleep. He’s been tucked up in bed for ages, so long 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 that would put any sane person to sleep does not work for Tom. Because when Off the back of the sheep come, they steal him off for a bedtime adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804802</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Where's Tim's Ted? Itsuccess of Stephenie Meyer's Time for Bed![[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell Ayto|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|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 Twilight]] series there has been a perfunctory peek behind the sofa and, when that doesn’t unearth the teddy, Tim is packed off to bed with the promise that they’ll look again boom in the morningvampire novels aimed at teenagers. But it’s hard to sleep without your toy, isn’t it? So, deep in the middle In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the night, Tim creeps most unusual books to come out of bed to go searching once more. He’s 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 himself with quite a following.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007509561</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Pet Itch|author=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 - this craze as sisters do. But Sister comes though in the end with it is a crafty plan that will help Mossy get the Itch collection 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 love poetry aimed at teenage fans of all though is the way the adults are so easily bamboozledseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861079</amazonuk>