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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0995647895|title=The It Doesn't Matter Suit Sadie and Other Storiesthe Sea Dogs|author=Sylvia Plath Maureen Duffy and David RobertsAnita Joice|rating=43.5
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|summary=ISadie've s mother always said it before and I'll say it againthat she was a dreamer, that you her mind never on what she should always approach classical authors through their least typical, shortest and more individual works – you won't gain much insight perhaps into why they were famous, but you will find more entertainment and greater pleasures by staying outside the canonbe doing. And She lives by the lovely people River Thames at Faber Greenwich and Faber have a case in point – rather than plough through serious dross from Eliot, why not stick she loves to [[spend hours at The Illustrated Old Possum by T S Eliot and Nicolas Bentley]]? And with Sylvia Plath I cannot think of a better place to start with her oeuvre than with these snappy and delightful pagesMaritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571314643</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=What A Wonderful WorldPoem for Every Day of the Year|author=Bob Thiele, George David Weiss and Tim HopgoodAllie Esiri
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|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=''What a Wonderful World'' For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a book fun and accompanying CD set based easy commitment to take on the Louis Armstrong song. In fact it is the book and CD of that song as it’s not Reading a new story or poem a padded out version of the originalday does not take long, mere minutes, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyrics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Twelve Days of Christmas|author=Britta Teckentrup|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=You know the song already, but this peepwith over three-through book recreates the magic of the hundred poems in here there''Twelve Days of Christmas'' in s bound to be a beautiful and special waypoem that speaks to each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=The Oxford Treasury A Child's Garden of Nursery RhymesVerses|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingRobert Louis Stevenson|rating=3.52|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymes, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as Robert Louis Stevenson was a baby is gospel. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activities, Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but at heart I still can't quite come he did not restrict himself to terms with representations of the librarian saying 'washed ''gothic and the spiderpersecuted. He also wrote brilliant children'' out s adventure stories such as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor InceyTreasure Island'' out'. Sadly, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesKidnapped'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in this, but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Mad About Mega Beasts!|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildings, big vehicles, big animals. However, I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – mega. What beasts, both from now and from the past, are large enough to achieve this accolade and be welcomed into the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDonaldson_Treasury|title=A is Amazing!: Poems about FeelingsTreasury of Songs|author=Wendy Cooling Julia Donaldson and Piet GroblerAxel Scheffler|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=How do you get young children interested in poetry? I guess you hope that you don't have to – you want them to be aware of clapping and skipping songs by nature, and of lyrics to music heard in school and at home. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavour, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in case, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilation, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and up, and provide for many a read of many a different style of verse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Kicking A Ball|author=Allan Ahlberg|rating=5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=There 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 boy who likes kicking a balltune. It’s For the best thing past few years, she has adapted many of all for him, her most popular stories into songs and there’s nothing he’d rather be doingplays them during open readings, nowhere he’d rather beor releases them as part of a songbook. We see his bedroom For the first time, A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and this it also has some football albums in, and a football table, but his interest is definitely with playing rather than being on the side lines. There are other ball sports CD too, of course, but he’s not into tennis or volleyball or golf or cricket or hockey or netball or playing catch with a child in a wheelchair (nice touch). No, kicking a ball is where it’s atDonaldson singing the songs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=Macavity,the Mystery CatRudyard Kipling's Just So Stories|author=T S Eliot Elli Woollard and Arthur RobinsMarta Altes
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|summary=Meet AvaNow, whatever our age, there are probably a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. She's They have stood the test of time to such an extent that they have become a girl piece of great imagination and a big heart, who brings an invisible cat home our culture common to mum one dayso many of us, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting are known throughout the two bondworld. But when mess gets madeOne of them is by Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child's sense of wonder and mistakes about 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 house happenrhino skin is so ill-fitting and rumpled, Ava declares innocencehow the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and blames it all on how the cat 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 youway 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'd t be surprised how many accidents long, trust me), you can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=What Does the Fox Say?Harris_Rhyming|authortitle=Ylvis and Svein Nyhus|rating=3|genre=ChildrenI's Rhymes m Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and VerseImmature Grown-Ups|summaryauthor=I know an 18 month old who is ace at animal noises. He knows what the cat who lives with him says, but also knows what dogs say Chris Harris and monkeys say and owls say and cows say. I’ve not asked him if he knows was foxes say, but I imagine he doesn’t. I mean, do you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471121941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=I am a Poetato|author=John HegleyLane Smith
|rating=4.5
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|summary=In this collection John Hegley says that the sniffy world of literary poetry is like music in that , people seem to be able to understand it 'sometimes…you need more than one go at it'. There is certainly more going on with John Hegley’s poems than knock together a first read through reveals. So though 'I am a Poetato' has been published as a book for children, these are poems for everyone dozen verses and contain a lot for readers get an audience of any age to enjoy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803970</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So Vain|author=Julie Fulton and Jona Jung|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Miss Dorothy-Jane is very much obsessed with her appearance, so when she sees there’s a competition to find Hamilton Shady’s best lady she just has twenty people to enter! She spends ever such buy a long time perfecting her look but on the way to the contestpamphlet, disaster strikesand they call themselves published authors. Will she realise that there’s more to life than looks, and sacrifice her chance to win You get a meet and greet similar thing at times with poetry for the Queen (yesyoung – most poetry books, her Majesty!)? Can she do the right thing, even if she gets after all dirty and dishevelled in the process? I’m sure you can guess the outcome, but the final ending was have a surpriselot more blank space in them than routine volumes, even for me. A nice surprise, I should add.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=What can you Stack on the Back of a Yak?|author=Alison Green and Adam Stower|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=You might be wondering why anyone would want to stack anything on the back people compile their best arrays of a yak, but the answer is simple. In this adorable tale, Captain Quack very few words in between two covers and the Yak (you’ve guessed itbingo, this is they have a rhyming one) deliver post to the top of a mountain. Along the way the Yak likes to playbook, andtwenty minutes later bingo, well, deviate from the track, and no matter how hard he tries, Captain Quack cannot control himyou've read it. Uh oh. One day, the Yak ends up with a rather more interesting load than his usual parcels and boxes and sacks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Counting Sheep: A Bedtime Adventure!|author=Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThat's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Tom most certainly not the case here, for this is supposed crammed with what has to be asleepconsidered a major outpouring of wit and rhyme. He’s been tucked up in bed for agesAnd whatever age you are, so long in fact that it’s now mum and dad’s time to go to sleepwhatever experience with verse you may have, but he’s still wide awake. Just count some sheep, his mum says finally. But what should be a calming, boring, wind down activity that would put any sane person this will not seem to sleep does not work for Tom. Because when the sheep come, they steal him off for a bedtime adventureyou like someone's first book of poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Goss_600|title=Where's Tim's Ted? It's Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time for Bed!Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=Ian Whybrow James Goss and Russell AytoT Davies
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Do you remember that time when they Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were changing guard at Buckingham Palace, and Christopher Robin went down he to keep in touch with Aliceeven half of his companions? Or how about that Christmas when King John (not He would certainly need a good man) asked few novelty gifts for lots some of things but only really wanted a bigthem, say, for example, India-rubber ball? These were whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the poems life of my childhood, so much so a Time Lord and that when this new compilation arrived I remembered of some of them by heart even though his friends and enemies. As luck would have it must have been , 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're working on a shorter timescale, with a good 20 years since I leafed through 'Now We Are Six' shorter lifespan, and 'When We Were Very Young'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268638</amazonuk>thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.
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|rating=3.5
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|summary=This is a book collection of funny rhymes and verses nonsense poetry takes in which rather disgusting all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and gruesome things happen from failed cowboys to the characters involved, a girl with each one getting their comeuppancesprings for feet. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from nosesIt's all very silly, all very nonsensical, dripping with blood as they're pinched off right through and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to Father Christmas using the toilet[http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392501</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192731831|title=See You Later, Escalator
|author=John Foster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731831</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giles Paley-Phillips1849392021|title=There's A Lion An Alien In My Bathroom|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=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].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956503527</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1408304589|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby
|author=Penny Dann
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things
|author=Michael Rosen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things he'd done and reminded 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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=The World At Our Feet
|author=Paul Cookson
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=With the World Cup just around the corner, football is on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at the [http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|author=John Foster
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', you know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to, and of course whizzing and banging orang-utans.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.
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