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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>

{{Frontpage<!-- Stevenson -->[[image:Stevenson_Garden.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910959103?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910959103]] ===[[A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson]]==isbn=Woollard_Kipling [[image:2star.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] 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. [[A ChildRudyard Kipling's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson|Full Review]]<br> {{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 McGoughGoss_600|title=Fish Dream Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of TreesTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies

|summary=Dragons don't bite – ask 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 to pose , say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a photo Time Lord and they burst into a grinthat of some of his friends and enemies. Owls don't bite youAs luck would have it, he has space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, either her – unless it's the one in the zoo cage you thought was friendlywould be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And while weif you're working on that subjecta shorter timescale, be careful about man-eating plants – they're never friendly given the chance of finding you alone. Such lessons are rife across these pageswith a shorter lifespan, in a singularly odd – and oddly fun – selection of four-line verses for thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the young, of any agesame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509836500</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Allie Esiri0956503527|title= There's A Poem for Every Day of the Year Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips|rating= 43.5|genre= AnthologiesChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary= For those who do not read much This collection of nonsense poetrytakes in all sorts of subjects, for those who do not know where from wannabe magicians to startarmpits, this is a fun and easy commitment from failed cowboys to take ona girl with springs for feet. Reading a poem a day does not take longIt's all very silly, mere minutesall very nonsensical, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly[http://www.beatbloodcancers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509860541<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roger McGough0192731831|title=80See You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster|rating=4.5

|summary=YesAlways a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, Roger McGough has hit 80 – and itwe's a query in the readerve enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. 's mind as to whether he's 80 years of age or just celebrating 80 booksSee You Later, as heEscalator'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 continues in November 2017 (his birthday is 9/11 – that's the British 9/11same vein, not the other one), and it dutifully compiles 80 with poems – with a bonus, new one on from the back cover. You also have to take pause in estimating his life's achievement by thinking that not every book likes of his isTony Mitton, like this oneMichael Rosen, family-friendly Michelle Magorian and classroom fodder – but still, such is his output that selecting 80 best must have been no easy featBrian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014138882X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo (editor)1849392021|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 thatThere'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>}}{{newreviewAn Alien In The Classroom|author=Sarah Webb and Steve McCarthy|title=A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea: Favourite Rhymes from an Irish ChildhoodGervase Phinn|rating=23.5

|summary=Poetry can come from anywhere, and anything, but this book relies on that which has some link to Irish – a Gaelic twinge here, ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a bit collection of the auld country now school-based poems and againpoems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and an aspect cautionary verse to acrostics and haiku, it that harks back to the source over the sea to the west offers a broad overview of uspoetry. There's a typical Irish woman's typical cakeWith themes including school, which is practically inediblefamilies, there is evidence the woman who will be coming round the mountains when she comes was from Erinseasons, and an inciter of workers' strikes and suchlike in AmericaBonfire Night, Nativity plays and there is St Patrick, going to the Belle of Belfast Citydentist, and her southern equivalent, Molly Malone – all presented in exuberant full colourthere's something to appeal to every child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177948</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Goss and Russell T Davies1408304589|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|author=Penny Dann

|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearAll your favourite nursery rhymes are here, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themfrom Hickory Dickory Dock, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends through Little Bo Peep and enemies. As luck would have itThree Blind Mice, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to him – sorrychoose from, 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>}}{{newreview|author=Neal Zetter and Chris White|title=Here Come the Superheroes|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes 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 all the big screen – and the small. They're everywhere, and their numbers names 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 presented in a well-established comic universe, or with some horrid and convoluted back story. No, webeautiful compendium that you're being introduced to them all in the format of verse – and ll treasure for the young superhero and/or poetry fan this clearly has an instant appealyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991465</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Bently and Charles Fuge0141324511|title=A Home Full Michael Rosen's Big Book of FriendsBad Things|author=Michael Rosen

|summary=IWhen he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things he've said it befored done and reminded him of them when appropriate, and Iso Michael imagined he'll end up saying it again – for sheer variety d written them all down in a Big Book of contents, and diversity on the page, you can seldom beat poetryBad Things. Here are bullied childrenhe presents the eponymous poem, the angst as well as many many other tales of parental break-upchildhood, and hard-done-by gods getting revenge. We're in from the realm horrors of mythbeing a second late to school, and Richmond Parkto making a raft, and Eastbourneto going to a café. We're with whale sharksSome bad, or stuck in tower blockssome sad, or feeding the seagulls that are with us in the latter but that ought to be with the former. We're rapping about pubertysome quirky, visiting our absent father to tell him our exam resultssome funny, and leaving for university. I'm sure you'll agreesome touching, that's spread enough for any booksome light-hearted, let alone a slender hundred pagesall wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959588</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda Offen033051086X|title=Message from the MoonThe World At Our Feet|author=Paul Cookson

|summary=YesWith the World Cup just around the corner, that football is really a on everyone'Message from s lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at the Moon' you receive courtesy of this book[http://www.nationalfootballmuseum. You also get com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the point of view of the sea itself, as well as best football poems for young children seeing the city night from their bedroom window and other people witnessing geese flying over, and you even get a message from a snail. The range of verses in this book is however but one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Moses0192729934|title=Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian MosesWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=John Foster|rating=43.5

|summary=For a poet with Subtitled ''rhymes for the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]]young'', I have to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of his worksyou know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. This collection was the perfect place for me to come late to the party, as it takes the authorIt's own favourites from several previous anthologies of hisa poetry anthology, and adds new verses. I read them with very little clue as sweet poems about kids, what they get up to which was which – , and of course whizzing and certainly couldn't tell having finished the bookbanging orang-utans. There is a lot here that will grab the young schoolchild, but 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 the author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Hardy-Dawson0230745865|title=Where Zebras GoIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|rating=3.54

|summary=I doubt if you could have zebras, foxes, Off the end back of the world, penguins, dinosaurs and people out success of fairy tale all together if it wasnStephenie Meyer't s [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in a book vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of poetry. Even short stories would struggle the most unusual books to fit the breadth come out of content into this craze as few pages as this volume does. Add in home life, school life and, er, football, and you really do have it is a diverse selection collection of subjects. All have caught the eye love poetry aimed at teenage fans of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade – and now she is going to try her damnedest, with some brilliant design, to make sure they all catch the eye of youseries.|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>}}{{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 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 Move 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 of the text.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847177387</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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>}}[[Newest Confident Readers Reviews]]