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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0995647895|title=Elli Woollard Sadie and Marta Altesthe Sea Dogs|titleauthor=Rudyard Kipling's Just So StoriesMaureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=NowSadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, whatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have 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 Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all encountered at some point the houses cowered in our childhoodsthe gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. They have stood She'd love to sail the test of time to such oceans on an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to so many of us, ancient sailing ship and are known throughout the worldwent back regularly. One of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought day she fell asleep under a childglass case (it's sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the rhino skin is so ill-fitting one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and rumpled, how missed the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, closing bell and how the elephant got such a thing as his trunkattendant's warning shout. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing When 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 case these tales are not for your young audience yet woke (and it wonhard floors don't be longmake comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, trust me)pirates, you can start them in early with this lovely mermaids and bright adaptationtreasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Harris and Lane SmithEsiri Poem|title=I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense A Poem for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-UpsEvery Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=In the sniffy world of literary For those who do not read much poetry, people seem for those who do not know where to be able to knock together start, this is a dozen verses fun and get an audience of twenty people easy commitment to buy take on. Reading a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authors. You get poem a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry booksday does not take long, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumesmere minutes, and people compile their best arrays of very few words with over three-hundred poems in between two covers and bingo, they have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. Thathere there's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has bound to be considered a major outpouring of wit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem poem that speaks to you like someone's first book of poetryeach reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509881042</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler, Frantz Wittkamp and Roger McGough|title=Fish Dream of Trees|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Dragons don't bite – ask them to pose for a photo and they burst into a grin. Owls don't bite you, either – unless it's the one in the zoo cage you thought was friendly. And while we're on that subject, be careful about man-eating plants – they're never friendly given the chance of finding you alone. Such lessons are rife across these pages, in a singularly odd – and oddly fun – selection of four-line verses for the young, of any age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509836500</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Allie EsiriStevenson_Garden|title= A Poem for Every Day of the Year |rating= 4|genre= Anthologies|summary= For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509860541</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Roger McGough|title=80|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Yes, Roger McGough has hit 80 – and it's a query in the reader's mind as to whether he's 80 years of age or just celebrating 80 books, as he's been very highly regarded in poetic circles for so long now that both seem plausible. In fact, this book is designed to applaud his ninth decade's arrival due in November 2017 (his birthday is 9/11 – that's the British 9/11, not the other one), and it dutifully compiles 80 poems – with a bonus, new one on the back cover. You also have to take pause in estimating his lifeChild's achievement by thinking that not every book Garden of his is, like this one, family-friendly and classroom fodder – but still, such is his output that selecting 80 best must have been no easy feat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014138882X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewVerses|author=Michael Morpurgo (editor)|title=Greatest Magical Stories|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I might have started this review by saying something like 'only reading can give your world such wonder'. But that's wrong – meeting a selkie can, being sent to sleep for a century can, guessing the name of a dwarven spinner maestro can, and so can so much more in the world of children's narrative. This delightful book is jam-packed with quickly-told classic delights, from Norse-based fable to the purest source of pantomime. And everywhere you turn you find something full of wonder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy|title=A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish ChildhoodRobert Louis Stevenson

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Poetry can come from anywhere, 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 anything, Mr Hyde'' but this book relies on that which has some link he did not restrict himself to Irish – a Gaelic twinge here, a bit representations of the auld country now gothic and again, and an aspect to it that harks back to the source over the sea to the west of uspersecuted. ThereHe also wrote brilliant children's a typical Irish womanadventure stories such as ''Treasure Island''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'Kidnapped'', and there is St Patrickbut, the Belle of Belfast Cityagain, and her southern equivalent, Molly Malone – all presented in exuberant full colourhe did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177948</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Goss and Russell T DaviesDonaldson_Treasury|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection Treasury 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>}}{{newreviewSongs|author=Neal Zetter Julia Donaldson and Chris White|title=Here Come the SuperheroesAxel Scheffler

|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=I'm quite sure you're well aware of Some people have all the spate of superhero movies doing the rounds these daysskills, with any and every star not only is Julia Donaldson one of the comics page seemingly on the big screen – and the small. Theymost successful children're everywheres authors, and their numbers are only growingbut she can also carry a tune. But here is a unique chance to meet a For the past few more – Mega Slugyears, Micro Girlshe has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, Magnetic Me, Sister Speed – even one calling himself the Ultimate Superhero. But we're not meeting or releases them in as part of a well-established comic universe, or with some horrid and convoluted back storysongbook. NoFor the first time, we're being introduced to them all A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in the format one omnibus and it also has a CD too of verse – and for Donaldson singing the young superhero and/or poetry fan this clearly has an instant appealsongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991465</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Bently and Charles FugeWoollard_Kipling|title=A Home Full of FriendsRudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes

|summary=I've said it beforeNow, whatever our age, and I'll end up saying it again – for sheer variety there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have stood the test of time to such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to so many of contentsus, and diversity on are known throughout the page, you can seldom beat poetryworld. Here are bullied childrenOne of them is by Rudyard Kipling, the angst who brought a child's sense of parental break-up, wonder and hard-done-by gods getting revengehis own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a dozen examples of warm whimsy. We're in In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the realm of myth, rhino skin is so ill-fitting and Richmond Parkrumpled, and Eastbourne. We're with how the whale sharkslearnt he cannot eat humans, or stuck in tower blocks, or feeding and how the seagulls that are with us in the latter but that ought to be with the formerelephant got such a thing as his trunk. We're rapping about puberty, visiting our absent father to tell him our exam resultsIn doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – and leaving way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. Just in case these tales are not for university. Iyour young audience yet (and it won'm sure you'll agreet be long, that's spread enough for any booktrust me), let alone a slender hundred pagesyou can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959588</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda OffenHarris_Rhyming|title=Message from the MoonI'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups|author=Chris Harris and Lane Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=YesIn the sniffy world of literary poetry, that is really people seem to be able to knock together a 'Message from the Moon' you receive courtesy dozen verses and get an audience of this booktwenty people to buy a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authors. You also get a similar thing at times with poetry for the point of view of the sea itselfyoung – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, as well as children seeing the city night from and people compile their bedroom window best arrays of very few words in between two covers and other people witnessing geese flying overbingo, they have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you even get 've read it. That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a message from a snailmajor outpouring of wit and rhyme. The range of verses in And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone's first book is however but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>poetry.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian MosesGoss_600|title=Lost MagicDoctor Who: The Very Best Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Brian MosesTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|rating=4.5

|summary=For a poet with Consider the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to admit never having come across it beforehand out each year, nor having knowingly read any were he to keep in touch with even half of his works. This collection was the perfect place companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for me to come late to the partyexample, as it takes whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the author's own favourites from several previous anthologies life of a Time Lord and that of some of his, friends and adds new versesenemies. I read them with very little clue as As luck would have it, he has space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to which was which him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and certainly couldnget himself ready. And if you't tell having finished the book. There is re working on a lot here that will grab the young schoolchildshorter timescale, but the topics cover so much there really will be with a universal appealshorter lifespan, meaning that a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pagesand thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, even if well my advice is pretty much the author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>same.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hardy-Dawson0956503527|title=Where Zebras GoThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips

|summary=I doubt if you could have zebras, foxes, the end This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of the worldsubjects, penguinsfrom wannabe magicians to armpits, dinosaurs and people out of fairy tale all together if it wasn't in from failed cowboys to a book of poetrygirl with springs for feet. Even short stories would struggle to fit the breadth of content into as few pages as this volume does. Add in home lifeIt's all very silly, school life and, er, footballall very nonsensical, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjectsgood fun. All have caught the eye A proportion of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade – and now she is going profits are being donated to try her damnedest, with some brilliant design, to make sure they all catch the eye of you[http://www.beatbloodcancers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959316<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold0192731831|title=How to be a TigerSee You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster

|summary=Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we''Wet again, yet again! Down it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were crossve enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster.''<br>See You Later, Escalator''See continues in the branches toss? See same vein, with poems from the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NO.'' Yes, sometimes only a quote will do. After alllikes of Tony Mitton, we do come to poetry for snappy concisionMichael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>Brian Patten.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Allie Esiri1849392021|title= A Poem for Every Night of the Year|rating= 4|genre= ChildrenThere'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>}}{{newreviewAn Alien In The Classroom|author=W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley Macdonald|title= The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for ChildrenGervase Phinn

|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, youThere's An Alien In The Classroom''d even considered him whatsoever. This edition is a case somewhat collection of 'never mind the words, just see ''that'' artwork' – but I know you'll want to read on school-based poems and find out what I make of the textpoems aimed at school-age children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177387</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Puckett Taking in all forms, from limericks and Tor Freeman|title=Colin the Cart Horse|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes cautionary verse to acrostics and Verse|summary=Meet Colin. He's a perfectly regular cart horsehaiku, carrying the crops, tools and children around the farm. He's happy with it offers a life broad overview of labourpoetry. With themes including school, resting after his shift is done about three every afternoonfamilies, and a life of hay – that isseasons, howeverBonfire Night, 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 Nativity plays and Play|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Monkeys are vocal animals and if you walk through going to the jungle you may hear them scream. Perhaps they have just slid down an elephantdentist, there's trunk or maybe they are just attempting something to sing? Having a appeal to every child means that you will start to hear the same rhymes over and over again, so if it takes a few cheeky monkeys to teach us a few new ones, I am happy with that. Just don't let them jump on top of my car at the Safari Park.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286979</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Allcock and Gina Maldonado1408304589|title=Animal Magic The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|author=Penny Dann

|summary=Having read many children's books in recent years I have come All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to know the concept of nonsense rhymesSing A Song Of Sixpence. I don't mean silly adventures that happen to be written in rhyming couplets; I mean bad With over sixty nursery rhymes. The best books for sharing should have fluidity to themchoose from, all the story simply rolls off the tongue as big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you turn the pages. Too many times I have read a book in which the rhymes just don't scan and you end up tripping over your wordsll treasure for years. 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|author=Elli Woollard |title=The Secret Pirate (Swashbuckle Lil: 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 brave pirate and all her adventures are true (at least to her).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman|title=Hendrix the Rocking Horse (Fables from the Stables 2)|rating=5|genreisbn=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poor Hendrix. He has a nice life and a nice farmer's field, but he's bored. All the excitement of the world is just too far away, except for the time the fairground came to town, complete with Ferris wheel, rides, stilted jugglers and the Tumbling Pebbles playing a gig. He could hear all of their concert – even dancing and prancing around his field as a result. But little did 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 to find the music within…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571315402</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Donaldson and Lucy Richards0141324511|title=Night Monkey, Day Monkey|rating=5|genre=ChildrenMichael Rosen's Rhymes and Verse|summary=A night monkey should only be awake in the night. A day monkey should only be awake in the day. They should never have to experience the 'wrong' side Big Book 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>}}{{newreviewBad Things|author=Pip Jones|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! Michael Rosen

|summary=We can see When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne bad things he'd done and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up and now he has school work to do. But reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he's d written them all down in a lucky little boy as Big Book of Bad Things. Here he has Winnie presents the Pooh to help him. Or is he luckyeponymous poem, given that Winnie is also known as 'well as many many other tales of childhood, from the Bear horrors of very little brain'? Actuallybeing a second late to school, Pooh has to making a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one dayraft, to going to a café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, looking for his friend Pigletsome touching, and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mindlight-hearted, all wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard033051086X|title=When We Were Very Young|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I've never been fond of poetry: there's something missing in my soul as I cannot see the benefits of saying something in verse form when it could be expressed more simply. I often wish that I was different and just occasionally some verse will touch me: it has happened with [[:Category:Wendy Cope|Wendy Cope]] and now with this delightful volume from A A Milne. As I read there was a curious mixture of ''good'' memories from childhood (and they were all too rare) and new material which struck a chord. The 'decorations' by E H Shepard didn't do any harm either!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280859</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWorld At Our Feet|author= Clement C Moore and Max Marshall|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 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 HatPaul Cookson

|summary=I was worried, initially, that all these poems were going to be about pirates. How would Roger Stevens keep With the interest going if he was confined to World Cup just around 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 a Pirate Hat'' contains forty five poems grouped into Fun Time, School Timecorner, Home Time. No poem football is longer than a page and there’s sufficient range of form and tone to keep one readingon everyone's lips. There’s also sufficient consistency to allow one to drop Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at random and with confidencethe [http://www.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X<nationalfootballmuseum.com/amazonuk>National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules Nilsson0192729934|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''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>}}{{newreviewWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=Tony Ross|title=Bedtime RhymesJohn Foster

|summary=It is getting late so it is time to start Subtitled ''rhymes for the bedtime routine; upstairs for a washvery young'', clean your teeth and then into your PJs. Settle into bed and you know what now? A story perhaps, or some night time nursery rhymesyou're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. Is it just me or do many of these bedtime tales feel a lot more sinister than their daytime cousins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440473</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Ross|title=Playtime Rhymes|rating=4.5|genre=ChildrenIt's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Great news! Your friends 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 goodpoetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, but how can you possibly come what they get up with another present for a baby? Thankfullyto, great books and wonderful nursery rhymes are always in fashion – combine the two of course whizzing and you have a gift that you may just want to keep for yourselfbanging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)0230745865|title=You Tell Me!|rating=2.5|genre=Children'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>}}{{newreviewIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Danielle Wright Gaby Morgan (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the World

|summary=I'm thinking that of all Off the kinds back of books that have ability to surprise, high up on the list are poetry books. You can generally see the style, idea or genre success 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 readersStephenie Meyer' eyes and to generally give something the audience didn't expect. And so it is with this book, for while s [[:Category:Michael RosenTwilight by Stephenie Meyer|Michael Rosen'sTwilight]] introduction spoke to us of nursery rhymes, I had already flicked through and still was not expecting series there has been a spread of themboom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. Even when he itemised the various kinds I didn't foresee finding them all on the pages, although that In My Sky at Twilight 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 perhaps one of Rhymes|rating=3|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It was a surprise for me the most unusual books 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 come out of Greenwich, passing away in Twickenham. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected here, craze as 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 a 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=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge love poetry aimed at teenage fans 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 herseries. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>