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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, 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 the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=A Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri|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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=A 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=Donaldson_Treasury|title=A Treasury of Songs

|summary=Some people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson one of the most successful children's 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 releases them as part of a song booksongbook. For the first time '', A Treasury of Songs'' brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the songs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509846131</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Louis StevensonWoollard_Kipling|title= A ChildRudyard Kipling's Garden of Verses |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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959103</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJust So Stories

|summary=Now, whatever our age, 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 us, and are known throughout the world. One of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child'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 and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the elephant got such a thing as his trunk. 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 case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and it won't be long, trust me), you can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509814744</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Harris_Rhyming|title=I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups

|summary=In the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authors. You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and people compile their best arrays of very few words in between two covers and bingo, they have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has 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 to you like someone's first book of poetry.|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 EsiriGoss_600|title= Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Poem for Every Day Collection 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 Time Lord 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 life's achievement by thinking that not every book 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>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo (editorDr Who)|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 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>}}{{newreview

|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 the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has it stopped raining?NO.'' Yes, sometimes only a quote will do. After allYou Later, we do come to poetry for snappy concision, and thatEscalator's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Allie Esiri|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 continues in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended same vein, with every word and stylistic form tend to kill poems from the beauty likes 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 nightTony Mitton, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W B Yeats, Noreen Doody and Shona Shirley Macdonald1849392021|title= There's An Alien In The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for ChildrenClassroom|author=Gervase 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 to know the concept of nonsense All your favourite nursery rhymes. I don't mean silly adventures that happen to be written in rhyming couplets; I mean bad rhymes. The best books for sharing should have fluidity to themare here, the story simply rolls off the tongue as 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 words. So as this book is part of the ''Nonsense Animal Rhymes'' series, does the nonsense come from the story being daftHickory Dickory Dock, or because the rhymes are nonsensical?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862326</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 through Little Bo Peep 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 LubberThree Blind Mice, thinks Lil's naughty and is unaware that Lil's really trying to save the teacher from being kidnapped by the wicked pirate, StinkbeardSing A Song Of Sixpence. 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 With over sixty nursery rhymes to her).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509808825</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Puckett and Tor Freeman|title=Hendrix the Rocking Horse (Fables choose from the Stables 2)|rating=5|genre=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 Richards|title=Night Monkey, Day Monkey|rating=5|genre=Children'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 of their routine. But what happens when they each big names are presented 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 beautiful compendium that can meet – and just about get along perfectly well, thank you'll treasure for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283343</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pip Jones0141324511|title=Squishy McFluff: Seaside Rescue! Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things|author=Michael Rosen

|summary=I've never been fond of poetry: thereWhen he was little, Michael Rosen's something missing in my soul as I cannot see dad remembered all the benefits bad things he'd done and reminded him of saying something in verse form them 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 appropriate, so Michael imagined he''good'' memories from childhood (and they were d written them all too rare) and new material which struck down in a chordBig Book of Bad Things. The 'decorations' by E H Shepard didn't do any harm either!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280859</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clement C Moore and Max Marshall|title= The Night Before Christmas|rating= 5|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary= Everyone knows Here he presents the classic story eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the night before Christmashorrors of being a second late to school, but as to making a child I never had it in raft, to going to a standalone book like this andcafé. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, it seemssome touching, I never knew there was quite as much to the tale. If you don't already own a versionsome light-hearted, this new release is a must buy for the presentation aloneall wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959125</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Roger Stevens033051086X|title=I Wish I had a Pirate HatThe World At Our Feet|author=Paul 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.nationalfootballmuseum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X<com/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''In between the beach huts''<br>''Where the white sands meet the seasNational Football Museum],''<br>''The heather meets has compiled the sand dunes''<br>''And long grasses dance the breezebest football poems for young children.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Ross0192729934|title=Bedtime RhymesWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=John Foster

|summary=Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', you know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It is getting late so it is time 's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to start the bedtime routine; upstairs for a wash, clean your teeth and then into your PJs. Settle into bed of course whizzing and what now? A story perhaps, or some night time nursery rhymesbanging orang-utans. 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 Ross0230745865|title=Playtime RhymesIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|rating=4.5

|summary=Great news! Your friends are having Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a baby! That pretty much means that everybody you know has boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at least Twilight is perhaps one or two rug rats crawling around of the place. It’s all well and good, but how can you possibly most unusual books to come up with another present for out of this craze as it is a baby? Thankfully, great books and wonderful nursery rhymes are always in fashion – combine collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the two and you have a gift that you may just want to keep for yourselfseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>