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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hardy-Dawson0995647895|title=Where Zebras GoSadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=I doubt if you could have zebras, foxes, the end of the world, penguins, dinosaurs and people out of fairy tale all together if it wasnSadie't in s mother always said that she was a book of poetry. Even short stories would struggle to fit the breadth of content into as few pages as this volume does. Add in home lifedreamer, school life and, er, football, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjectsher mind never on what she should be doing. All have caught She lives by the eye of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade – River Thames at Greenwich and now she is going to try her damnedest, with some brilliant design, to make sure they all catch the eye of you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959316</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold|title=How loves to be a Tiger|rating=4spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=''Wet again, yet again! Down it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NO.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Allie EsiriPoem|title= A Poem for Every Night Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidatingFor those who do not read much poetry, to children and grown-ups. All for those school lessons of dissecting poems in order who do not know where to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word start, this is a fun and stylistic form tend easy commitment to kill the beauty of take on. Reading a well-written poem. This collection is a year-day does not take long tour through a vast history of poetry, mere minutes, and gives the reader with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a new poem that speaks to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosettieach reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley MacdonaldStevenson_Garden|title= The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for ChildrenA Child's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=3.52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=William Butler Yeats – take note, kids – Robert Louis Stevenson was a 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 representations of the gothic and the names behind those initials can see you through on many a TV quiz show, so remember thempersecuted. WB Yeats – take note, parents – for if youHe also wrote brilliant children're like me you wons adventure stories such as 't ever have considered him for a collection for young readers, if, that is, you'd even considered him whatsoever. This edition is a case somewhat of Treasure Island'never mind the words, just see 'and 'that'Kidnapped' artwork' – , but I know you'll want , again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to read on and find out what I make of the textwrite poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177387</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Puckett and Tor FreemanDonaldson_Treasury|title=Colin the Cart Horse|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horse, carrying the crops, tools and children around the farm. He's happy with a life of labour, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoon, and a life of hay – that is, however, until he wonders what his fellow farm animals are eating. What could be the consequence A Treasury of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSongs|author=Emily Bolam |title=Let's Sing Julia Donaldson and PlayAxel Scheffler
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|summary=Monkeys are vocal animals and if you walk through Some people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson one of the jungle you may hear them scream. Perhaps they have just slid down an elephantmost successful children's trunk authors, but she can also carry a tune. For the past few years, she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, or maybe they are just attempting to sing? Having releases them as part of a child means that you will start to hear songbook. For the same rhymes over first time, A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and over again, so if it takes a few cheeky monkeys to teach us also has a few new ones, I am happy with that. Just don't let them jump on top CD too of my car at Donaldson singing the Safari Parksongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286979</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Allcock and Gina MaldonadoWoollard_Kipling|title=Animal Magic Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes
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|summary=Having read many children's Now, whatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in recent years I our childhoods. They have come stood the test of time to know such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to so many of us, and are known throughout the concept world. One of nonsense rhymes. I donthem is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child't mean silly adventures that happen s sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to be written play in rhyming couplets; I mean bad rhymesa dozen examples of warm whimsy. The best books for sharing should have fluidity In shrugging off evolution he got to themconvey how the rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, how the story simply rolls off whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the tongue elephant got such a thing as you turn the pageshis trunk. Too many times I have read 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 way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. Just in which the rhymes just doncase these tales are not for your young audience yet (and it won't scan be long, trust me), you can start them in early with this lovely and you end up tripping over your wordsbright adaptation. So as this book is part of the ''Nonsense Animal Rhymes'' series, does the nonsense come from the story being daft, or because the rhymes are nonsensical?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862326</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elli Woollard Harris_Rhyming|title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle LilI'm Just No Good At Rhyming: The Secret Pirate) |rating=4|genre= Emerging Readers |summary= School girl Lil is a secret pirate. Her classmates think she's an ordinary girl and assume they're just imagining things when they hear her bag squawk. They don't know that's where she keeps her parrot (whose name is Carrot). Her teacher, Miss Lubber, thinks Lil's naughty and is unaware that Lil's really trying to save the teacher from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, Stinkbeard. But Lil doesn't mind because she knows the truth – she's a bold And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least to her).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewImmature Grown-Ups|author=Gavin Puckett Chris Harris and Tor Freeman|title=Hendrix the Rocking Horse (Fables from the Stables 2)Lane Smith|rating=4.5
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|summary=Poor Hendrix. He has In the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to knock together a nice life dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to buy a nice farmer's fieldpamphlet, but he's boredand they call themselves published authors. All the excitement of the world is just too far away, except You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the time the fairground came to townyoung – most poetry books, complete with Ferris wheelafter all, rideshave a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, stilted jugglers and the Tumbling Pebbles playing a gig. He could hear all people compile their best arrays of their concert – even dancing very few words in between two covers and prancing around his field as bingo, they have a resultbook, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. But little did he know what would happen when the lead guitaristThat's instrument literally fell off most certainly not the back case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of their tour buswit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and Hendrix had a chance whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to find the music within…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315402</amazonuk>you like someone's first book of poetry.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Lucy RichardsGoss_600|title=Night Monkey, Day Monkey|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=A night monkey should only be awake in the night. Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A day monkey should only be awake in the day. They should never have to experience the 'wrong' side Collection 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>}}{{newreviewTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=Pip Jones|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! James Goss and Russell T Davies
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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 the first three and He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate 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 some of form his friends and tone enemies. As luck would have it, he has space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to keep one reading. There’s also sufficient consistency him – sorry, her – would be to allow one pop along to drop in at random his local Earth-based book emporium and with confidenceget himself ready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=And if you''In between the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seasre working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead,''<br>''The heather meets well my advice is pretty much the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance the breezesame.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross0956503527|title=Bedtime RhymesThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles 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 rhymesto choose from, or to pretend they fly to all the moon when they go to sleep. This edition is beautifully laid out, and I would happily buy it big names are presented in a heartbeatbeautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Seen and Not HeardMichael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things|author=Katie May GreenMichael 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=You know With the song alreadyWorld Cup just around the corner, but this peep-through book recreates the magic of the ''Twelve Days of Christmas'football is on everyone' s lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in a beautiful and special wayResidence at the [http://www.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862<nationalfootballmuseum.com/amazonuk>National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingJohn Foster
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|summary=How do you get Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young children interested in poetry? I guess '', you hope that know what you don't have to – you want them to be aware of clapping and skipping songs by nature, and of lyrics to music heard in school and at homere getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. Surely itIt's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavour, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in caseanthology, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilationwith sweet poems about kids, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and what they get upto, and provide for many a read of many a different style of versecourse whizzing and banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=Kicking A BallIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Allan AhlbergGaby Morgan (editor)|rating=54
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|summary=There is a boy who likes kicking a ball. It’s Off the best thing back of all for him, and there’s nothing he’d rather be doing, nowhere he’d rather be. We see his bedroom and this has some football albums in, and a football table, but his interest is definitely with playing rather than being on the side lines. There are other ball sports too, success of course, but he’s not into tennis or volleyball or golf or cricket or hockey or netball or playing catch with Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a child boom in a wheelchair (nice touch)vampire novels aimed at teenagers. No, kicking a ball In My Sky at Twilight is where it’s at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Macavity,perhaps one of 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 most unusual books to sit down with come out of this craze as it is a tome collection of good love poetry. Currently he is reading T.S. Eliot. Well, that’s what I will be telling them down aimed 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 the inimitable scoundrel teenage fans of the title, ''Macavity''series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>
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