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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Elli Woollard Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|titlerating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Secret Pirate Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (Swashbuckle Lil: The Secret Piratehard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=A Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri
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|genre= Emerging Readers Anthologies|summary= School girl Lil For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a secret pirate. Her classmates think she's an ordinary girl fun and assume they're just imagining things when they hear her bag squawkeasy commitment to take on. They don't know that's where she keeps her parrot (whose name is Carrot). Her teacherReading a poem a day does not take long, Miss Lubbermere minutes, thinks Lil's naughty and is unaware that Lilwith over three-hundred poems in here there's really trying bound to save the teacher from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeard. But Lil doesn't mind because she knows the truth – she's be a bold and brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least poem that speaks to her)each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor FreemanStevenson_Garden|title=Hendrix the Rocking Horse (Fables from the Stables 2)A Child's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Poor Hendrix. He has Robert Louis Stevenson was a nice life very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and a nice farmerMr Hyde''s field, but he's bored. All the excitement did not restrict himself to representations of the world is just too far away, except for the time the fairground came to town, complete with Ferris wheel, rides, stilted jugglers gothic and the Tumbling Pebbles playing a gigpersecuted. He could hear all of their concert – even dancing also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and prancing around his field as a result. But little ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here 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 demonstrates his ability to find the music within…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315402</amazonuk>write poetry.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Donaldson_Treasury|title=A Treasury of Songs|author=Julia Donaldson and Lucy Richards|title=Night Monkey, Day MonkeyAxel Scheffler|rating=54
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|summary=A night monkey should only be awake in Some people have all the night. A day monkey should skills, not only be awake in is Julia Donaldson one of the daymost successful children's authors, but she can also carry a tune. They should never have to experience For the 'wrong' side past few years, she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of their routinea songbook. But what happens when they each in turn wake For the other upfirst time, A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and night monkey it also has to suffer the brightness a CD too of day, and Donaldson singing 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 yousongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283343</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip JonesWoollard_Kipling|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes
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|summary=We can see 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 signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] test of time to such an extent that Christopher Robin is growing up they have become a piece of our culture common to so many of us, and now he has school work to doare known throughout the world. But heOne of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child's sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a lucky little boy as dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he has Winnie got to convey how the Pooh to help him. Or rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he luckycannot eat humans, given that Winnie is also known and how the elephant got such a thing as 'the Bear of very little brain'? Actuallyhis trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, Pooh has not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a message for us in the introduction: book-length collection – and way before he says saw something into print that he walked through the book one day, looking has lasted ever since. Just in case these tales are not for his friend Piglet, your young audience yet (and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we it won't mindbe long, trust me), you can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harris_Rhyming|title=A A Milne I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and E H ShepardImmature Grown-Ups|titleauthor=When We Were Very YoungChris Harris and Lane Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=I've never been fond In the sniffy world of literary poetry: there's something missing in my soul as I cannot see the benefits of saying something in verse form when it could , people seem to be expressed more simply. I often wish that I was different able to knock together a dozen verses and just occasionally some verse will touch me: it has happened with [[:Category:Wendy Cope|Wendy Cope]] get an audience of twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and now they call themselves published authors. You get a similar thing at times with this delightful volume from A A Milne. As I read there was poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, have a curious mixture lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and people compile their best arrays of ''good'' memories from childhood (very few words in between two covers and bingo, they were all too rare) have a book, and new material which struck twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a chordmajor outpouring of wit and rhyme. The And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone'decorations' by E H Shepard didn't do any harm either!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280859</amazonuk>s first book of poetry.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clement C Moore and Max MarshallGoss_600|title= The Night Before Christmas|rating= 5|genre= Children's Rhymes and Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse(Dr Who)|summaryauthor= Everyone knows the classic story of the night before Christmas, but as a child I never had it in a standalone book like this James Goss 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 HatRussell T Davies|rating=4.5
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|summary=I was worried, initiallyConsider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, that all these poems were going he to be about pirates. How would Roger Stevens keep the interest going if he was confined to the staple diet in touch with even half of treasure maps and skull and cross boneshis companions? In fact there are only three pirate poems but they are He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the first three and the book cover gives little indication life 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 Lord and there’s sufficient range that of form some of his friends and tone enemies. As luck would have it, he has space in his TARDIS to keep one reading. There’s also sufficient consistency stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to allow one pop along to drop in at random his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with confidencea shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules Nilsson0956503527|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary='There's A Lion In between the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seas,''<br>''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance the breeze.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMy Bathroom|author=Tony Ross|title=Bedtime RhymesGiles Paley-Phillips
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|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].
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross0192731831|title=Playtime RhymesSee You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)1849392021|title=You Tell Me!|rating=2.5|genre=ChildrenThere'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 it'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 World|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 books. 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 RhymesGervase Phinn|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 Twickenham. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen|title=The Squickerwonkers|rating=45
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|summary=Selma ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge collection of a fair – a large gypsy caravanschool-based poems and poems aimed at school-styled contraptionage children. Taking in all forms, which she entersfrom limericks and cautionary verse to acrostics and haiku, alone but for her shiny red balloonit offers a broad overview of poetry. She appears to be aloneWith themes including school, families, seasons, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage withinBonfire Night, Nativity plays and a disembodied voice introduces them all going to her. They are the Squickerwonkersdentist, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someonethere's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>something to appeal to every child.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Illustrated Old Possum1408304589|authortitle=T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley|rating=4|genre=Children's The Orchard Book Of Nursery 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
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|summary=There was 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 All your favourite nursery rhymes are here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Owl and the Pussy-cat|author=Edward Lear, Charlotte Voake from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Julia Donaldson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is a poem which has always resonated with meThree Blind Mice, because there is something about it which is nothing short of magicalto Sing A Song Of Sixpence. It taps into that part of children which still love With over sixty nursery rhymes, or to pretend they fly to the moon when they go to sleep. This edition is beautifully laid outchoose from, and I would happily buy it in a heartbeat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Seen and Not Heard|author=Katie May Green|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=During the day all the eight children of Shiverhawk Hall are seen and not heard for they big names 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 presented 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 framesbeautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years. What mischief can these children from across the ages make? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=The It DoesnMichael Rosen't Matter Suit and Other Storiess Big Book of Bad Things|author=Sylvia Plath and David RobertsMichael Rosen
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=What A Wonderful The WorldAt Our Feet|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim HopgoodPaul Cookson
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|summary=There is a boy who likes kicking a ball. It’s With the World Cup just around 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 incorner, and a football table, but his interest is definitely with playing rather than being on the side lineseveryone's lips. There are other ball sports too, of coursePaul Cookson, but he’s not into tennis or volleyball or golf or cricket or hockey or netball or playing catch with a child Poet in a wheelchair (nice touch). No, kicking a ball is where it’s Residence at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208<the [http://amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Macavity,the Mystery Cat|author=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|rating=4www.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than to sit down with a tome of good poetrynationalfootballmuseum. Currently he is reading T.S. Eliot. Wellcom/ National Football Museum], that’s what I will be telling them down at playgroup anyway. No need to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’. The poem in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and features has compiled the inimitable scoundrel of the title, ''Macavity''best football poems for young children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!Whizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=Pip JonesJohn Foster
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|summary=Meet Ava. SheSubtitled ''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 it invisible food and letting rhymes for the two bond. But when mess gets made, and mistakes about the house happenvery young'', 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 you're getting 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 poetry is like music in that to understand it 'sometimes…you need more than one go at itWhizz Bang Orang-Utan''. There is certainly more going on with John Hegley’s poems than a first read through reveals. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So VainIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Julie Fulton and Jona JungGaby Morgan (editor)
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|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 Timsuccess of Stephenie Meyer's Ted? It's Time for Bed![[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell Ayto|rating=4Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tim In My Sky at Twilight 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 a perfunctory peek behind perhaps one of the sofa and, when that doesn’t unearth the teddy, Tim is packed off most unusual books to bed with the promise that they’ll look again in the morning. But it’s hard to sleep without your toy, isn’t come out of this craze as it? So, deep in the middle is a collection of the night, Tim creeps out love poetry aimed at teenage fans 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 followingseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007509561</amazonuk>
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