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[[Category:Anthologies|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{adsense2}}Frontpage__NOTOC__ {{newreview|isbn=1737030942|authortitle=ChildrenBag O's TrustGoodies|titleauthor=The Walrus and the Carpenter and Other Favourite PoemsJolly Walker Bittick|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=CelebritiesSometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, including when I read his [[:Category:Richard HammondCape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Richard HammondCape Henry House]], Paul Oa rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn'Gradyt want a full-length novel, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kelly, have chosen their favourite poems for so I turned to this anthologyof verse and short stories. All proceeds from the book go to [http://www Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters.thechildrenstrust Well.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charity, who help disabled children, and I urge you all to buy a copy most of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' to support them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen140638853X|title=A To Z - The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To ZephaniahSomebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Sophia Thakur

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Michael Rosen has picked the best modern childrenSophia Thakur's poetrydebut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, from John Agard through whether in relation to Benjamin Zephaniahtheir style, length or theme. It stemmed from Rosen performing in schools The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow', 'wait','break' and libraries 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with many a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of the poetswriting, and as children's poetry anthologies goranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, it's amongst to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed in the very bestbeautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>

Ha! How can you not laugh at this gently mocking take on love in the hipster world? }}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PUP_Rising|title=Rising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry|author=Zadie SmithPop Up Projects|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=This collection brings together five emerging voices in poetry. And despite what the publisher says, I wouldn't personally impose an age restriction on the writing here. Each poet uses words that will appeal to many readers. I found this particularly so with Jay Hulme's poetry.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=Changing My Mind: Occasional EssaysA Child's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=2|genre=Anthologies|summary=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 persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=A Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri

|summary=Zadie Smith is best known as the author of three novels: White TeethFor those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New York. This collection this is a mixture of literary criticism and journalism, including travel writing, reviews fun and other writing easy commitment to take on film and several pieces about Zadie Smith's family, and especially her father. It is divided into five sections under the headings Readinga poem a day does not take long, Being, Seeingmere minutes, Feeling and Rememberingwith over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganHerbertson_Wordsworth|title=The Magical World of MilliganWilliam and Dorothy Wordsworth: A Miscellany|author=Gavin Herbertson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's William Wordsworth was a defining member of the lawromantic literary era. Spike Milligan He was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got part of the perfect mix of nonsense, heartfirst wave, and surreal humour. He speaks his poetry helped to people shape a large part of all agesit. Nature was the key: existing in nature, and hefinding one's just plain lovelyown true nature and becoming natural in the process were the driving forces behind it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Ann DuffyMahfouz_Muslim|title=New and Collected Poems for ChildrenThe Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|author=Sabrina Mahfouz

|summary=Sometimes What does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern-day British society has a varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a society that is changing and moving forward as it adds more and more voices to the title population, but it is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those who are minorities. So this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes in the introduction you needform of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Holland Cheap|title=View from the Cheap Seats|author=Barry Holland|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=A little bit about Barry Holland: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffyhe was born in Newport, South Wales, to working-class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favourite rugby player, which is just as it should be. He is a qualified engineer but is unable to work because of mental ill-health. All of these things feed into ''View from the Cheap Seats's 'New , which is a collection of poems and imaginings as vivid and immediate and Collected Poems striking as you could hope for Children'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571219683</amazonuk>Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and his book was a pleasure to read.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry HorseMarshall EFT|title=Higglety Pigglety Pop! And Other First PoemsThe Book of English Folk Tales|author=Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence

|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=A poetry anthology that includes Edward LearFrom ghosts to witches, Spike Milliganto giants and fairies, AA Milne, Lewis Carroll and Michael Rosen ''The Book of English Folk Tales'' is immediately worth a lookfascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. They're timeless classics that everyone has read Out of print for over three decades, this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and has had read is sure to themcapture the attention of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323144</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debi GlioriTrotman_Winter|title=Noisy PoemsWinter: A Book for the Season|author=Felicity Trotman (editor)|rating=54|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=Any book This seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of poetry that starts with Spike Milligan , nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of fiction. Felicity Trotman, a freelance editor and member of the English Civil War Society, has arranged the material into three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred and Secular', and 'The New Year'. This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression and ends with Roger McGough will get also serves to make Christmas the heart of the thumbs up book. Black-and-white illustrations – maps, photographs and engravings – are interspersed throughout, and each author gets a short paragraph of biography and background.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Elphinstone_Winter|title=Winter Magic|author=Abi Elphinstone (Editor)|rating=3.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=With everything from me. Noisy Poems dragons to mysterious crimes, voice-stealing witches to time travel, and magical worlds to first performances of world-famous ballets, this is full a collection of just short stories that: poems about soundsdelights from start to finish. Anthologies of short stories can sometimes fall flat, with trucks honkingone or two good ones and then a bunch of mediocre fillers, ducks quackingbut this collection has no weak links...all the stories are good, trains clickety-clacking and shoes squeakingmost of them are brilliant. It's awash with alliteration I felt entirely caught up in each individual world as I read, loving the varied and rhythmextremely likeable heroines throughout. It}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Phinn_Virgin|title=The Virgin Mary's crying out Got Nits|author=Gervase Phinn|rating=4.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to be read aloud either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last-minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and joined in back when you knew exactly what the season would bring withcarol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties.This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ayrton_Pasaran|title=No Pasaran: Writings from the Spanish Civil War|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)|rating=4|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1406323195</amazonuk>Anthologies|summary=In ''¡No Pasarán!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War'', Pete Ayrton has chosen a majority of texts by Spanish writers, arguing that the conflict has long been written about from the point of view of the international brigades.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FosterEdwards_Manor|title=Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate BarMurder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards (editor)

|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=I was recently subjected to a good 20 minutes of the rude version of Happy Birthday in Catalan'm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, even though it was neither 's broadly golden age crime, one of my birthday nor am I Catalan. I responded with weaknesses and secondly, the ol' squashed tomatoes and stew version that we all know and loveeditor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], for a very restrained 15 minutes. Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar man whose knowledge of golden age crime is packed full probably unsurpassed and he's done us proud, not only with his selection but with the half-page biographies of such thingsthe writers, which precede each story. Kids love those sort of rhymes, There's just enough there to allow you to place the author and childish adults love to direct you to other works if you'em toore tempted. Whilst Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar isn It't exactly rudes an elegant selection, it does have a cheeky glint from the well known and the less well known, all set in its eye, a muddy splash on its new shoes, and gleeful laughter throughoutaround the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755811</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=Colfer_Place|title=Once Upon a Place|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|rating=3.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about it.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Cleeves_Murder|title=The Starlings and Other Stories|author=Paul B Janeczko Ann Cleeves (editor)|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=Six authors, known collectively as 'Murder Squad', and their six accomplices were each given photographs of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and asked to come up with a short story inspired by what they saw. Some of the stories will be more to your taste than others, as is only to be expected in such a varied anthology, but none are weak and Chris Raschkaif you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a real treat.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Milne_Love|title=Love From Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)|author=A A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide To Poetic FormsMilne

|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=As the subtitle saysFor a small book, A Kick In The Head a small review – this is an everyday guide to poetic formsa quite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can be said. Itis a gift book pure and simple, much in the way that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times (''s Pooh… thought how wonderful it would be to have a perfect primer to couplets, limericks, acrostics, sonnets, haiku and many moreReal Brain which could tell you things''). Each form has With it comes a brief explanationsimple blurb, an exampleand almost instructions that it is for giving, and then there is a more detailed explanation space for a loving dedication at the backbeginning, which is again only apt, as it is all about love. Love of honey, love in friendship, love of all various kinds, but just love. Itcan's a wonderful educational book for any child (or for any adult who wants to brush up on their basic understanding of poetry)t help but make you most warm-hearted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763641324</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian MacArthurWalton_Scifi|title=For King and CountryWhat Makes This Book So Great: Voices from the First World War Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|author=Jo Walton|rating=35|genre=HistoryAnthologies|summary=''For King and Country – Voices from the First World War'' is an anthology Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of writings edited by Brian MacArthurwhich have been award-winning. It features around 450 pages On top of journalsthat, poemsshe has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well-respected writer of original fiction, articles and memories of those involved in WWIbut as a well-respected reviewer too. These factual accounts cover Not only does she have time to do all kinds of stylesthat, but she also writes a regular column for Tor.com, lengths on Science Fiction and subject matterFantasy books, but each one and it is hopefully able to give the reader these columns that a real taste selection of a time most of us which are too young to remember first-handcollected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349120293</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Hodgkinson Tennant_Grub|title=The Book of Idle PleasuresDid We Meet on Grub Street?|author=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott|rating=43.5|genre=TriviaAnthologies|summary=We've Essentially, the three authors (all heard of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the clichés about modern lifeidea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. You know – technology was meant This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and allows the writers to free us recount numerous anecdotes from drudgerytheir days in the publishing business. Instead we've become its slaves Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and work longer hours than ever. We're overloaded with means media studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of communication but few modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a shell of us know our neighboursits former self, etc, etcmuch like a lot of manufacturing. On hearing theseBecause of this, most I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of us shrug how the rise of the e-book and carry on with our busy, busy livesKindle has directly damaged both the sale of books and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). But now and thenAlso, something reminds us given the clear love of who and what we are. This delightfulbooks as treasured artefacts, unassuming book is one the dismissal of those thingsthe Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave to reading amongst both the young and adults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091923328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Dawkins Penzler_Big|title=The Oxford Big Book of Modern Science Writing Christmas Mysteries|author=Otto Penzler (editor)

|genre=Popular ScienceAnthologies|summary=Popular science Nostalgia is a huge field nowadaysbig part of the Christmas experience, populated and that's provided in sack-loads by both this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pages, while lesser-known and long since forgotten writers who turn to science furnish new and scientists who took to writing. The collection I have unexpected pleasures for even the pleasure of reviewing contains samples of writing by scientists, most well-read of it at least illuminating, some truly excellentbook worms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199216800</amazonuk>