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|author=Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy
|title=A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood
|rating=2
|genre=Children's Rhymes 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>
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|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies
|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf 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 it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>
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