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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=ChildrenFor Sharing|summary=Sadie's Rhymes 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 Verse==she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.

__NOTOC__''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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gaby Morgan (editor)Esiri Poem|title=In My Sky at TwilightA Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri

|genre=TeensAnthologies|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie MeyerFor 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 [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been bound to be a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagerspoem that speaks to each reader directly. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one }}{{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 most unusual books human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to come out representations of this craze the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as it is a collection of love ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Donaldson_Treasury|title=A Treasury of Songs|author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|rating=4|genre=Children's TrustRhymes and Verse|titlesummary=The Walrus 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 songbook. For the Carpenter 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Other Favourite PoemsMarta Altes|rating=34.5

|summary=CelebritiesNow, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Grady, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kellywhatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have chosen their favourite poems for this anthologyall encountered at some point in our childhoods. All proceeds from They have stood the book go test of time to such an extent that they have become a piece of our culture common to [http://wwwso many of us, and are known throughout the world.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The ChildrenOne of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child's Trust]sense of wonder and his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a dozen examples of warm whimsy. It's a fantastic charityIn shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the rhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, who help disabled childrenhow the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and I urge you all to buy 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 copy of ''The Walrus 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 the Carpenterit won'' to support t be long, trust me), you can start themin early with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RosenHarris_Rhyming|title=A To Z I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown- The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To ZephaniahUps|author=Chris Harris and Lane Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Michael Rosen has picked In the best modern children's sniffy world of literary poetry, from John Agard through people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to Benjamin Zephaniahbuy a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authors. It stemmed from Rosen performing You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in schools them than routine volumes, and libraries with many people compile their best arrays of the poetsvery few words in between two covers and bingo, they have a book, and as childrentwenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's poetry anthologies gomost 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, itthis will not seem to you like someone's amongst the very bestfirst book of poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilaire Belloc and Mini GreyGoss_600|title=Jim, Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who Ran Away From His Nurse )|author=James Goss and Was Eaten By A LionRussell T Davies|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Hilaire Belloc's ''Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classicsConsider the Doctor. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly lauded]])Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, has illustrated one were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of these fine talesthem, so say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a new generation Time Lord and that of children can discover just what happens when some of his friends and enemies. As 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 run away from your nurse 're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and a lion eats you. Pay attention kidsthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mandy Stanley 0956503527|title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Other Nursery FavouritesThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-Phillips

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Every small child should have book (or a few) containing traditional nursery rhymesThis collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and every so often newly illustrated collections are publishedfrom failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It''Twinkles all very silly, Twinkle Little Star'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme''all very nonsensical, published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|Lettice]http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research] stories and other picture books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T S Eliot0192731831|title=Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsSee You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster

|summary=In 1939Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, TS Eliotwe's cat poems for his godchildren were first publishedve enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. Seventy years and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical later''See You Later, theyEscalator're republished here' continues in the same vein, complete with illustrations by Axel Schefflerpoems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, best known for his work on [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]]Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571240615</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=1849392021|title=There's An Alien In The Classroom|author=Gervase Phinn|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=''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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike Milligan1408304589|title=The Magical World of MilliganOrchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|author=Penny Dann

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantasticAll your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsenseThree Blind Mice, heart, and surreal humourto Sing A Song Of Sixpence. He speaks With over sixty nursery rhymes to people of choose from, all ages, and hethe big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you's just plain lovelyll treasure for years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Ann Duffy0141324511|title=New and Collected Poems for ChildrenMichael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things|author=Michael Rosen|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Sometimes the title is When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the introduction you need: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's bad things he'New d done and Collected Poems for Childrenreminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a Big Book of Bad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the horrors of being a second late to school, to making a raft, to going to a café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571219683</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry Horse033051086X|title=Higglety Pigglety Pop! And Other First PoemsThe World At Our Feet|author=Paul Cookson

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=A poetry anthology that includes Edward LearWith the World Cup just around the corner, Spike Milliganfootball is on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, AA MilnePoet in Residence at the [http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], Lewis Carroll and Michael Rosen is immediately worth a look. They're timeless classics that everyone has read and has had read to themcompiled the best football poems for young children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323144</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debi Gliori0192729934|title=Noisy PoemsWhizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=John Foster|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Any book of poetry that starts with Spike Milligan and ends with Roger McGough will get Subtitled ''rhymes for the thumbs up from me. Noisy Poems is full of just that: poems about soundsvery young'', you know what you're getting with trucks honking, ducks quacking, trains clickety''Whizz Bang Orang-clacking and shoes squeakingUtan''. It's awash a poetry anthology, with alliteration sweet poems about kids, what they get up to, and rhythm. It's crying out to be read aloud of course whizzing and joined in withbanging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323195</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Foster0230745865|title=Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate BarIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I was recently subjected to a good 20 minutes Off the back of the rude version success of Happy Birthday in Catalan, even though it was neither my birthday nor am I Catalan. I responded with the olStephenie Meyer' squashed tomatoes and stew version that we all know and love, for s [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a very restrained 15 minutesboom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar In My Sky at Twilight is packed full perhaps one of such things. Kids love those sort the most unusual books to come out of rhymes, and childish adults love 'em too. Whilst Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar isn't exactly rude, this craze as it does have is a cheeky glint in its eye, a muddy splash on its new shoes, and gleeful laughter throughoutcollection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755811</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Paul B Janeczko and Chris Raschka|title=A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide To Poetic Forms|rating=5|genre=Move on to [[Newest Confident Readers|summary=As the subtitle says, A Kick In The Head is an everyday guide to poetic forms. It's a perfect primer to couplets, limericks, acrostics, sonnets, haiku and many more. Each form has a brief explanation, an example, and then a more detailed explanation at the back. It's a wonderful educational book for any child (or for any adult who wants to brush up on their basic understanding of poetry).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763641324</amazonuk>}}Reviews]]