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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy0995647895|title=A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood|rating=2|genre=Children's Rhymes Sadie and Verse|summary=Poetry can come from anywhere, and anything, but this book relies on that which has some link to Irish – a Gaelic twinge here, a bit of the auld country now and again, and an aspect to it that harks back to the source over the sea to the west of us. There's a typical Irish woman's typical cake, which is practically inedible, there is evidence the woman who will be coming round the mountains when she comes was from Erin, and an inciter of workers' strikes and suchlike in America, and there is St Patrick, the Belle of Belfast City, and her southern equivalent, Molly Malone – all presented in exuberant full colour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177948</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. 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, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the 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'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 same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=Neal Zetter and Chris White|title=Here Come the Superheroes|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes Maureen Duffy and Verse |summary=I'm quite sure you're well aware of the spate of superhero movies doing the rounds these days, with any and every star of the comics page seemingly on the big screen – and the small. They're everywhere, and their numbers are only growing. But here is a unique chance to meet a few more – Mega Slug, Micro Girl, Magnetic Me, Sister Speed – even one calling himself the Ultimate Superhero. But we're not meeting them in a well-established comic universe, or with some horrid and convoluted back story. No, we're being introduced to them all in the format of verse – and for the young superhero and/or poetry fan this clearly has an instant appeal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991465</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Bently and Charles Fuge|title=A Home Full of FriendsAnita Joice|rating=43.5

|summary=Bramble Badger was out looking for nuts by the river when the storm broke and he was so cold that he decided to go straight home. On the way he met a trail of devastation: Snuffle DormouseSadie's house has been squashed by mother always said that she was a falling treedreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She'd like shelter in Bramble's sett, if he has roomlives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. He 's a 'Her class had gone one rainy afternoon'little'<br>' bit reluctant because he thinks his sett is in a mess and there isn't much space or dinner available, but what can you do when a friend is When all the houses cowered in need? Next it's Tipper the Toad whose home is full of mudgloom, then Boo the Hedgehog's nest has been covered by leaves.|amazonuk='<amazonuk>144492057X</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Coelho and Kate Milner|title=Overheard in a Tower Block: Poems|rating=3''To the Maritime Museum''.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=I've said it before, and I'll end up saying it again – for sheer variety of contents, and diversity on the page, you can seldom beat poetryHer imagination was fired. Here are bullied children, She'd love to sail the angst of parental break-up, oceans on an ancient sailing ship and hard-done-by gods getting revengewent back regularly. WeOne day she fell asleep under a glass case (it're in s the realm of myth, one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and Richmond Park, missed the closing bell and Eastbournethe attendant's warning shout. WeWhen she woke (hard floors don're with whale sharks, or stuck t make comfy beds) she was in tower blocks, or feeding the seagulls midst of an adventure that are with us she could never have imagined in the latter but that ought to be with the former. We're rapping about pubertya world of dolphins, visiting our absent father to tell him our exam resultspirates, mermaids and leaving for universitytreasure. I'm sure you'll agree, that's spread enough for any book, let alone a slender hundred pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959588</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda OffenEsiri Poem|title=Message from A Poem for Every Day of the MoonYear|author=Allie Esiri

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=YesFor those who do not read much poetry, that for those who do not know where to start, this is really a 'Message from the Moon' you receive courtesy of this bookfun and easy commitment to take on. You also get the point of view of the sea itselfReading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window and other people witnessing geese flying with over, and you even get three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a message from a snailpoem that speaks to each reader directly. The range of verses in this book is however but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian MosesStevenson_Garden|title=Lost Magic: The Very Best A Child's Garden of Brian MosesVerses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=42|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=For Robert Louis Stevenson was a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I have to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of his works. This collection was versatile writer; he delved deep into the perfect place for me to come late to the party, as it takes the authorhuman psyche when he wrote ''s own favourites from several previous anthologies The Strange Case of his, Doctor Jekyll and adds new verses. I read them with very little clue as to which was which – and certainly couldnMr Hyde''t tell having finished the book. There is a lot here that will grab the young schoolchild, but he did not restrict himself to representations of the topics cover so much there really will be a universal appeal, meaning that a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, even if gothic and the author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Hardy-Dawson|title=Where Zebras Go|rating=3persecuted.5|genre=ChildrenHe also wrote brilliant children's Rhymes and Verse|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 wasn't in a book of poetry. Even short adventure stories would struggle to fit the breadth of content into such as few pages as this volume does. Add in home life, school life ''Treasure Island'' and''Kidnapped'', erbut, footballagain, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjects. All have caught the eye of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade – and now she is going he did not restrict himself to try her damnedest, with some brilliant design, prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to make sure they all catch the eye of youwrite poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959316</amazonuk>

Yes, sometimes only a quote will do. After all, we do come to poetry for snappy concision, and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Allie EsiriDonaldson_Treasury|title= A Poem for Every Night of the Year|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidating, to children and grown-ups. All those school lessons of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill the beauty of a well-written poem. This collection is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetry, and gives the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley Macdonald|title= The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for Children|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=William Butler Yeats – take note, kids – the names behind those initials can see you through on many a TV quiz show, so remember them. WB Yeats – take note, parents – for if you're like me you won'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 'never mind the words, just see ''that'' artwork' – but I know you'll want to read on and find out what I make Treasury of the text.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177387</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSongs|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman|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 of him trying out every other farm food on the market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315437</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Emily Bolam |title=Let's Sing Julia Donaldson and PlayAxel Scheffler

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Allcock and Gina MaldonadoWoollard_Kipling|title=Animal Magic Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes

|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>

{{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

|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.

{{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

|summary=We can see Consider 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 Doctor. Just how many birthday and now Christmas gifts must he has school work have to do. But hand out each year, were he's to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a lucky little boy as he has Winnie the Pooh to help him. Or is he luckyfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, given whimsical books of verse that Winnie is also known as 'pithily encapsulate the Bear life of a Time Lord and that of very little brain'? Actuallysome of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, Pooh he has a message for us space in his TARDIS to stock up in the introduction: he says that he walked through the advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book one dayemporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, looking for his friend Pigletwith a shorter lifespan, and sat down on some of thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mindsame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0956503527|title=There's A A Milne and E H ShepardLion In My Bathroom|titleauthor=When We Were Very YoungGiles Paley-Phillips|rating=3.5

|summary=I've never been fond This collection of nonsense poetry: there's something missing takes in my soul as I cannot see the benefits all sorts of saying something in verse form when it could be expressed more simply. I often wish that I was different subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and just occasionally some verse will touch me: it has happened with [[:Category:Wendy Cope|Wendy Cope]] and now from failed cowboys to a girl with this delightful volume from A A Milnesprings for feet. As I read there was a curious mixture of It''good'' memories from childhood (and they were s all very silly, all too rare) very nonsensical, and new material which struck a chordgood fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers. The 'decorations' by E H Shepard didn't do any harm either!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280859<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clement C Moore and Max Marshall0192731831|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 versionSee You Later, this new release is a must buy for the presentation alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959125</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEscalator|author= Roger Stevens|title=I Wish I had a Pirate HatJohn Foster|rating=4.5

|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 Always a Pirate Hat'' contains forty five poems grouped into Fun Time, School Time, Home Time. No poem is longer than sucker for 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 good poetry anthology here at random and with confidenceBookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''In between the beach hutsSee You Later, Escalator''<br>''Where continues in the white sands meet same vein, with poems from the seaslikes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen,''<br>''The heather meets the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance the breezeMichelle Magorian and Brian Patten.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1849392021|title=Bedtime RhymesThere's An Alien In The Classroom|author=Gervase Phinn

|summary=It ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is getting late so it is time to start the bedtime routine; upstairs for a washcollection of school-based poems and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, clean your teeth from limericks and cautionary verse to acrostics and then into your PJshaiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. Settle into bed With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and what now? A story perhapsgoing to the dentist, or some night time nursery rhymesthere's something to appeal to every child. Is it just me or do many of these bedtime tales feel a lot more sinister than their daytime cousins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross1408304589|title=Playtime The Orchard Book Of Nursery RhymesFor Your Baby|author=Penny Dann

|summary=Great news! Your friends All your favourite nursery rhymes are having a baby! That pretty much means that everybody you know has at least one or two rug rats crawling around the place. It’s all well and goodhere, but how can you possibly come up with another present for a baby? Thankfullyfrom Hickory Dickory Dock, great books through Little Bo Peep and wonderful Three Blind Mice, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are always presented in fashion – combine the two and you have a gift beautiful compendium that you may just want to keep 'll treasure for yourselfyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0141324511|title=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)'s Big Book of Bad Things|titleauthor=You Tell Me!Michael Rosen|rating=24.5

|summary=All life can be in poetry – When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the hectic schedule bad things he'd done and reminded him of a person forever popping somewherethem when appropriate, the policeman living so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a world Big Book of bad punsBad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, an uncle who may or not have brought memories as well as many many other tales of sniper fire back childhood, from war. All the horrors of life it seems on this evidence can be poetry – football resultsbeing a second late to school, memoirto making a raft, advice to counter bullies. All people in this life can be poets – and the way I reacted going to a lot of this collectioncafé. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, perhaps it's just as wellall wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804446</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)033051086X|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the The WorldAt Our Feet|author=Paul Cookson

|summary=I'm thinking that of all the kinds of books that have ability to surprise, high up on With the list are poetry books. You can generally see World Cup just around the stylecorner, idea or genre of a novel from the cover, and beyond a few shocks and twists nothing changes. But take poetry football is 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 readerseveryone' eyes and to generally give something the audience didn't expects lips. And so it is with this bookPaul Cookson, for while [Poet in Residence at the [http:Category:Michael Rosen|Michael Rosen's//www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum]] 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 has compiled the various kinds I didn't foresee finding them all on the pages, although that is what I gotbest football poems for young children. Who would have thought that such a small, succinct and varied little volume would have that much capacity to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter de la Mare0192729934|title=Peacock Pie: A Book of RhymesWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=John Foster|rating=3.5

|summary=It was a surprise Subtitled ''rhymes 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 Greenwichvery young'', passing away in Twickenhamyou know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. The reason I say this is that out of the copious It's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems collected hereabout kids, it's as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything of the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on the idyllic and pastoralwhat they get up to, and in following on so closely in the footsteps of his debut collection, 'Songs of Childhood' from 1902, still very, very much Victoriancourse whizzing and banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen0230745865|title=The SquickerwonkersIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)

|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on Off the edge back of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, and a disembodied voice introduces them all to her. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest success of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Illustrated Old Possum|author=T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley|rating=4|genre=ChildrenStephenie Meyer's Rhymes and Verse[[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|summary=This title Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is clearly perhaps one of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was one of their first childrens' most unusual 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 come out 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)|author=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked 'Was craze as it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'There's very little 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 is a poem which has always resonated with me, because there is something about it which is nothing short collection of magical. It taps into that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, or 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 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 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>}}{{newreview|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit and Other Stories|author=Sylvia Plath and David Roberts|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I'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 poetry aimed 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 Away|author=Elizabeth Hammill (Editor)|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf teenage fans of my toddler. See the word ‘Treasury’ and I expect him to be treated to a volume he will want to pass on to his own children. Anything less and I am disappointed. I’m relieved to get one thing straight from the start. This one’s a gem - a gorgeous joy of a book that you will just want to keep opening again and again. 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 itseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>