Changes

''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|classisbn=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-"wikitable" cellpaddinghundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly.}}{{Frontpage|isbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->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.}}

<!-- Donaldson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Donaldson_Treasury| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Treasury of Songs[[image:Donaldson_Treasury.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509846131?ieJulia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|rating=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509846131]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary===[[A Treasury of Songs by Some people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler]]=== [[image:4starone of the most successful children's authors, but she can also carry a tune.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes For the past few years, she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Some people have all plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of a songbook. For the skillsfirst time, not only is Julia Donaldson one A Treasury of the most successful children's authors, she can Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also carry has a tune. For CD too of Donaldson singing the past few years she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of a song book. 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 songsMarta Altes|rating=4. [[A Treasury of Songs by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler5|Full Review]] <!-- Stevenson -->|-genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stevenson_GardenNow, whatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910959103/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Child's Garden 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 Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson]]=== [[image:2starus, and are known throughout the world.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] [[:Category:ChildrenOne of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child's Rhymes sense of wonder and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Robert Louis Stevenson was his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case dozen examples of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he did not restrict himself got to representations of convey how the gothic rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories elephant got such a thing as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', buthis trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry. [[A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson|Full Review]] <!knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-- Woollard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woollard_Kiplinglength collection – and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509814744/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Harris_Rhyming|title===[[Rudyard KiplingI's m Just So Stories by Elli Woollard No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Marta Altes]]=Immature Grown-Ups|author=Chris Harris and Lane Smith|rating= [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Nowsummary=In the sniffy world of literary poetry, whatever our age, there are probably people seem to be able to knock together a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have stood the test dozen verses and get an audience of time twenty people to such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to so many of usbuy a pamphlet, and are known throughout the worldthey call themselves published authors. One of them is by Rudyard KiplingYou get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, who brought have a child's sense of wonder lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and his own Victorian absurdist set people compile their best arrays of explanations to play in very few words in between two covers and bingo, they have a dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's most certainly not the rhino skin case here, for this is so ill-fitting crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of wit and rumpledrhyme. And whatever age you are, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humansand whatever experience with verse you may have, and how the elephant got such a thing as his trunkthis will not seem to you like someone's first book of poetry. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Goss_600|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=James Goss and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever sinceRussell T Davies|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Consider the Doctor. Just in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (how many birthday and it won't be longChristmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, trust me), you can start them were he to keep in early touch with this lovely and bright adaptation. [[Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories by Elli Woollard and Marta Altes|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Rhymingeven 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.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509881042?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509881042]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[IAs luck would have it, he has 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'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris and Lane Smith]]===thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0956503527[[image:4.5star.jpg|linktitle=There's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips|rating=3.5|genre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] In the sniffy world summary=This collection of literary nonsense poetrytakes in all sorts of subjects, people seem from wannabe magicians to be able to knock together a dozen verses armpits, and get an audience of twenty people from failed cowboys to buy a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authorsgirl with springs for feet. You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry booksIt's all very silly, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumesvery nonsensical, and people compile their best arrays good fun. A proportion of very few words in between two covers profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and bingo, they have a bookLymphoma Research].}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0192731831|title=See You Later, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read itEscalator|author=John Foster|rating=4. That5|genre=Children's most certainly not the case Rhymes and Verse|summary=Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology hereat Bookbag, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of wit and rhymewe've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. And whatever age you are''See You Later, and whatever experience with verse you may haveEscalator'' continues in the same vein, this will not seem to you like someone's first book with poems from the likes of poetry. [[I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris and Lane Smith|Full Review]]Brian Patten. }} <!-- Esiri -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1849392021| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"There's An Alien In The Classroom|author=Gervase Phinn[[image:Esiri Poem|rating=3.jpg|left5|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509860541/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Children's Rhymes and Verse| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Poem for Every Day ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of the Year by Allie Esiri]]=== [[image:4starschool-based poems and poems aimed at school-age children.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes Taking in all forms, from limericks and Verse|Children's Rhymes cautionary verse to acrostics and Verse]] For those who do not read much poetryhaiku, for those who do not know where to start, this is it offers a fun and easy commitment to take onbroad overview of poetry. Reading a poem a day does not take longWith themes including school, families, seasons, mere minutesBonfire Night, Nativity plays and with over three-hundred poems in here going to the dentist, there's bound something to be a poem that speaks appeal to each reader directlyevery child. [[A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri|Full Review]]}}<!-- Goss -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1408304589[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Foster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0192731831.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192731831/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[See You Later, Escalator by John Foster]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten. [[See You Later, Escalator by John Foster|Full Review]] <!-- Paley-Phillips -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0956503527.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0956503527/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[There's A Lion In My Bathroom by Giles Paley-Phillips]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research]. [[There's A Lion In My Bathroom by Giles Paley-Phillips|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1849392021.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1849392021/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[There's An Alien In The Classroom by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of school-based poems, and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, to acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to the dentist, there's something to appeal to every child. [[There's An Alien In The Classroom by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- Dann -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1408304589.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408304589/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby by Penny Dann]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years. [[The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby by Penny Dann|Full Review]] |}  {{newreview

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=The World At Our Feet

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=In My Sky at Twilight

|genre=TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse

{{newreview|author=Children's Trust|title=The Walrus and the Carpenter and Other Favourite Poems|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Celebrities, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Grady, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kelly, have chosen their favourite poems for this anthology. All proceeds from the book go Move on to [http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charity, who help disabled children, and I urge you all to buy a copy of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' to support them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Rosen|title=A To Z - The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Michael Rosen has picked the best modern children's poetry, from John Agard through to Benjamin Zephaniah. It stemmed from Rosen performing in schools and libraries with many of the poets, and as children's poetry anthologies go, it's amongst the very best.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilaire Belloc and Mini Grey|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's ''Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classics. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]]), has illustrated one of these fine tales, so that a new generation of children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse and a lion eats you. Pay attention kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mandy Stanley |title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Other Nursery Favourites|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every small child should have book (or a few) containing traditional nursery rhymes, and every so often newly illustrated collections are published. ''Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme'', published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|LetticeNewest Confident Readers Reviews]] stories and other picture books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>}}