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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A A Milne and E H Shepard0995647895|title=Now We Are Six|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=We can see the signs in [[The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne and E H Shepard|The House at Pooh Corner]] that Christopher Robin is growing up and now he has school work to do. But he's a lucky little boy as he has Winnie the Pooh to help him. Or is he lucky, given that Winnie is also known as 'the Bear of very little brain'? Actually, Pooh has a message for us in the introduction: he says that he walked through the book one day, looking for his friend Piglet, Sadie and sat down on some of the pages by mistake. He hopes that we won't mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280867</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSea Dogs|author=A A Milne Maureen Duffy and E H Shepard|title=When We Were Very YoungAnita Joice|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I've never been fond of poetry: there's something missing in my soul as I cannot see the benefits of saying something in verse form 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 Milne3. As I read there was a curious mixture of ''good'' memories from childhood (and they were all too rare) and new material which struck a chord. 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 the classic story of the night before Christmas, but as a child I never had it in a standalone book like this and, it seems, I never knew there was quite as much to the tale. If you don't already own a version, this new release is a must buy for the presentation alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848959125</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Roger Stevens|title=I Wish I had a Pirate Hat|rating=4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=I was worried, initially, that all these poems were going to be about pirates. How would Roger Stevens keep the interest going if he was confined to 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 Time, Home Time. No poem is longer than a page and there’s sufficient range of form and tone to keep one reading. There’s also sufficient consistency to allow one to drop in at random and with confidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780618X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jules Nilsson|title=The Hounds of Falsterbo|rating=4

|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. ''In between the beach hutsHer class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''Where When all the white sands meet houses cowered in the seasgloom,''<br>''The heather meets To the sand dunesMaritime Museum''<br>. 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'And long grasses dance s Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the breezeattendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992708419</amazonuk>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=Tony RossEsiri Poem|title=Bedtime Rhymes|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=It is getting late so it is time to start the bedtime routine; upstairs for a wash, clean your teeth and then into your PJs. Settle into bed and what now? A story perhaps, or some night time nursery rhymes. Is it just me or do many of these bedtime tales feel a lot more sinister than their daytime cousins?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440473</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Ross|title=Playtime Rhymes|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Great news! Your friends are having a baby! That pretty much means that everybody you know has at least one or two rug rats crawling around the place. It’s all well and good, but how can you possibly come up with another present for a baby? Thankfully, great books and wonderful nursery rhymes are always in fashion – combine the two and you have a gift that you may just want to keep Poem for yourself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440481</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Roger McGough, Michael Rosen and Korky Paul (illustrator)|title=You Tell Me!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=All life can be in poetry – the hectic schedule of a person forever popping somewhere, the policeman living in a world Every Day of bad puns, an uncle who may or not have brought memories of sniper fire back from war. All of life it seems on this evidence can be poetry – football results, memoir, advice to counter bullies. All people in this life can be poets – and the way I reacted to a lot of this collection, perhaps it's just as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804446</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewYear|author=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around the WorldAllie Esiri

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=I'm thinking that of all the kinds of books that have ability For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to surprisestart, high up this is a fun and easy commitment to take on the list are poetry books. You can generally see the style, idea or genre of Reading a novel from the cover, and beyond poem a few shocks and twists nothing changes. But day does not take poetry on boardlong, and there are surprises on each page – the concentrated form of the literature surely gives the author more chance to bedazzlemere minutes, to pull the rug over the readers' eyes and to generally give something the audience didn't expect. And so it is with this book, for while [[:Category:Michael Rosen|Michael Rosenover three-hundred poems in here there's]] introduction spoke bound to us of nursery rhymes, I had already flicked through and still was not expecting a spread of them. Even when he itemised the various kinds I didn't foresee finding them all on the pages, although that is what I got. Who would have thought that such be a small, succinct and varied little volume would have poem that much capacity speaks to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>each reader directly.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter de la MareStevenson_Garden|title=Peacock Pie: A Book Child's Garden of RhymesVerses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=32|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=It Robert Louis Stevenson was a surprise for me 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 read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much representations of his life in the gothic and around London – born at least in what is now the borough of Greenwich, passing away in Twickenhampersecuted. The reason I say this is that out of the copious poems collected here, itHe also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything of the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on the idyllic 'Treasure Island'' and pastoral, and in following on so closely in the footsteps of his debut collection, 'Songs of Childhood' from 1902, still very, very much Victorian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen|title=The Squickerwonkers|rating=4|genre=ChildrenKidnapped''s Rhymes and Verse|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraption, which she enters, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage withinagain, and a disembodied voice introduces them all he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to herwrite poetry. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Donaldson_Treasury|title=The Illustrated Old PossumA Treasury of Songs|author=T S Eliot Julia Donaldson and Nicolas BentleyAxel Scheffler

|summary=This title Some people have all the skills, not only is clearly of importance to the house of Faber. To this day their puff mentions it was Julia Donaldson one of their first childrens' books, after the author sent his publishermost successful children's sonauthors, his godsonbut she can also carry a tune. For the past few years, some writings based on jellicle cats she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and some of their scrapes. It's clearly a book that's important to Andrew Lloyd Webberplays them during open readings, too, but we'll gloss speedily over that. It's a book that was important to me or releases them as well – I certainly had a copy, part of a thin, barely illustrated, old-fashioned style paperback of it once I had seen the musicalsongbook. And with For the excellent writing here and the ability first time, A Treasury of it to delight so many people Songs brings together several of so many ages, her books in one omnibus and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the power to be important to a future generationsongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=Nonsense Limericks (Faber ChildrenRudyard Kipling's Classics)Just So Stories|author=Edward Lear Elli Woollard and Arthur Robins (illustrator)Marta Altes

|summary=There was Now, whatever our age, there are probably a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When 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 asked 'Was it fine?'<br>He said 'No denyin' –<br>'Therehave 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 very little here they could tweak!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Owl 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 Pussyrhino skin is so ill-cat|author=Edward Learfitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, Charlotte Voake and Julia Donaldson|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is how the elephant got such a poem which has always resonated with mething as his trunk. In doing so he entertained his young daughter, because there is not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-length collection – and way before he saw something about it which is nothing short of magical. It taps into print that part of children which still love nursery rhymes, or to pretend they fly to the moon when they go to sleephas lasted ever since. This edition is beautifully laid out, Just in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and I would happily buy it won't be long, trust me), you can start them in a heartbeatearly with this lovely and bright adaptation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>072329321X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Harris_Rhyming|title=Seen I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Not HeardImmature Grown-Ups|author=Katie May GreenChris Harris and Lane Smith

|summary=I’m a bit picky on behalf In the sniffy world of my toddler. See the word ‘Treasury’ and I expect him literary poetry, people seem to be treated able to knock together a volume he will want dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to pass on to his own children. Anything less buy a pamphlet, and I am disappointedthey call themselves published authors. I’m relieved to You get one a similar thing straight from at times with poetry for the start. This one’s young – most poetry books, after all, have a gem - a gorgeous joy 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 that , and twenty minutes later bingo, you will just want to keep opening again and again've read it. It’s That's most certainly not a question of whether it the case here, for this is worthy of hypothetical grandchildren, it’s more crammed with what has to be considered a question major outpouring of how well thumbed it will be when they get itwit and rhyme.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804063</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=What A Wonderful World|author=Bob ThieleAnd whatever age you are, George David Weiss and Tim Hopgood|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone''What a Wonderful World'' is a s first book and accompanying CD set based on the Louis Armstrong song. In fact it is the book and CD of that song as it’s not a new story or a padded out version of the original, it’s simply an illustrated version of the lyricspoetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736906</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Goss_600|title=The Twelve Days Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of ChristmasTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|author=Britta TeckentrupJames Goss and Russell T Davies

|summary=You know Consider the song alreadyDoctor. 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, but this peep-through book recreates say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the magic life of the ''Twelve Days a Time Lord and that of some of Christmashis 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'' in re working on a shorter timescale, with a beautiful shorter lifespan, and special waythinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848958862</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0956503527|title=The Oxford Treasury of Nursery RhymesThere's A Lion In My Bathroom|author=Sarah Williams and Karen KingGiles Paley-Phillips

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=When it comes to nursery rhymes, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as a baby is gospel. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activitiessubjects, but at heart I still can't quite come to terms with the librarian saying 'washed ''the spider'' out as opposed from wannabe magicians to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'. Sadlyarmpits, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''The Oxford Treasury of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 from failed cowboys to a girl with things that were big; big buildings, big vehicles, big animalssprings for feet. HoweverIt's all very silly, I have recently learnt that there is a size that is bigger than big – mega. What beastsall very nonsensical, both from now and from the past, good fun. A proportion of profits are large enough being donated to achieve this accolade [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and be welcomed into the hallowed pages of this book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>Lymphoma Research].

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192731831|title=A is Amazing!: Poems about FeelingsSee You Later, Escalator|author=Wendy Cooling and Piet GroblerJohn Foster

|summary=How do you get young children interested in Always a sucker for a good poetry? I guess you hope that you donanthology here at Bookbag, we'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 homeve enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavour'See You Later, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just Escalator'' continues in casethe same vein, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilationwith poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and upMichael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and provide for many a read of many a different style of verseBrian Patten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1849392021|title=Kicking A BallThere's An Alien In The Classroom|author=Allan AhlbergGervase Phinn|rating=3.5

|summary=''There 's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a boy who likes kicking a ballcollection of school-based poems and poems aimed at school-age children. It’s the best thing of Taking in all for himforms, from limericks and there’s nothing he’d rather be doingcautionary verse to acrostics and haiku, nowhere he’d rather beit offers a broad overview of poetry. We see his bedroom and this has some football albums inWith themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and a football table, but his interest is definitely with playing rather than being on going to the side lines. There are other ball sports too, of coursedentist, but he’s not into tennis or volleyball or golf or cricket or hockey or netball or playing catch with a there's something to appeal to every child in a wheelchair (nice touch). No, kicking a ball is where it’s at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1408304589|title=Macavity,the Mystery CatThe Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|author=T S Eliot and Arthur RobinsPenny Dann

|summary=Meet Ava. She's a girl of great imagination All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and a big heartThree Blind Mice, who brings an invisible cat home to mum one day, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bondSing A Song Of Sixpence. But when mess gets madeWith over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, and mistakes about the house happen, Ava declares innocence, and blames it all on the cat – and big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>ll treasure for years.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=What Does the Fox Say?0141324511|authortitle=Ylvis and Svein Nyhus|rating=3|genre=ChildrenMichael Rosen's Rhymes and Verse|summary=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 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 PoetatoBig Book of Bad Things|author=John HegleyMichael Rosen

|summary=In this collection John Hegley says that poetry is like music in that to understand it When he was little, Michael Rosen'sometimes…you need more than one go at its dad remembered all the bad things he'. There is certainly more going on with John Hegley’s poems than d done and reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a first read through revealsBig Book of Bad Things. So though 'I am a Poetato' has been published Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the horrors of being a book for childrensecond late to school, these are poems for everyone and contain to making a lot for readers of any age raft, to going to enjoya café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So VainThe World At Our Feet|author=Julie Fulton and Jona JungPaul Cookson

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|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 With the World Cup just has to enter! She spends ever such a long time perfecting her look but on the way to around the contestcorner, disaster strikesfootball is on everyone's lips. Will she realise that there’s more to life than looks, and sacrifice her chance to win a meet and greet with the Queen (yes, her Majesty!)? Can she do the right thingPaul Cookson, even if she gets all dirty and dishevelled Poet in Residence at the process? I’m sure you can guess the outcome[http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], but has compiled the final ending was a surprise, even best football poems for me. A nice surprise, I should addyoung children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=What can you Stack on the Back of a Yak?|author=Alison Green and Adam Stower|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summaryisbn=You might be wondering why anyone would want to stack anything on the back of a yak, but the answer is simple. In this adorable tale, Captain Quack and the Yak (you’ve guessed it, this is a rhyming one) deliver post to the top of a mountain. Along the way the Yak likes to play, and, well, deviate from the track, and no matter how hard he tries, Captain Quack cannot control him. 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>}}{{newreview0192729934|title=Counting Sheep: A Bedtime Adventure!Whizz Bang Orang-Utan|author=Kathryn Cave and Chris RiddellJohn Foster|rating=3.5

|summary=Tom is supposed to be asleep. He’s been tucked up in bed Subtitled ''rhymes for agesthe very young'', so long in fact that it’s now mum and dad’s time to go to sleep, but he’s still wide awake. Just count some sheep, his mum says finallyyou know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. But what should be It's a calmingpoetry anthology, boringwith sweet poems about kids, wind down activity that would put any sane person what they get up to sleep does not work for Tom. Because when the sheep come, they steal him off for a bedtime adventureand of course whizzing and banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804802</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Where's Tim's Ted? It's Time for Bed!|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell Ayto|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tim is visiting Grandad and Granny Red on the farm. It’s bed time, but Tim can’t find Ted. He makes them look for him, but they don’t really bother. Just a perfunctory peek behind the sofa and, when that doesn’t unearth the teddy, Tim is packed off to bed with the promise that they’ll look again in the morning. But it’s hard to sleep without your toy, isn’t it? So, deep in the middle of the night, Tim creeps out of bed to go searching once more. He’s not alone, though. Grandad and Granny Red might be fast asleep but others on the farm are awake, and like the Pied Piper, Tim soon finds himself with quite a following.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007509561</amazonuk>}}{{newreview0230745865|title=The Pet ItchIn My Sky at Twilight|author=Elli Woollard and Elina Ellis|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Most children want a pet at some point. Mossy Monster wants a pet itch more than anything else in the world. But his family Gaby Morgan (refreshingly consisting of a Granny, an Uncle and a sistereditor) have all sorts of reasons why he shouldn't have one and his sister just seems to delight in tormenting him - as sisters do. But Sister comes though in the end with a crafty plan that will help Mossy get the Itch of his dreams, and make sure the grown ups do all the work as well. There is never a dull moment in this book with temper tantrums, rude rhymes and absolutely delightful illustrations. The best part of all though is the way the adults are so easily bamboozled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861079</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|rating=54

|summary=Do you remember that time when they were changing guard at Buckingham Palace, and Christopher Robin went down with Alice? Or how about that Christmas when King John (not a good man) asked for lots Off the back of things but only really wanted a big, India-rubber ball? These were the poems success of my childhood, so much so that when this new compilation arrived I remembered some of them Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by heart even though it must have Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a good 20 years since I leafed through 'Now We Are Six' and 'When We Were Very Young'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268638</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Trumpety Trump|author=Steve Smallman and Adria Meserve|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Two subjects guaranteed to have any nursery age child boom in stitches are bums and farts. This book has plenty of both, along with some other very rude behaviour which will have children begging to hear this again and again. Although the book reads like a non stop riot of rude and raucous behaviour, it does teach children about friendship and manners as well. Adults will appreciate the moral to the story, but children will be so busy laughing, they'll hardly notice that they are learning vampire novels aimed at the same timeteenagers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sean Taylor and Ross Collins|title=Robot Rumpus|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=In My sons tore open the parcel with ''Robot Rumpus'' and were already reading it themselves before I could even get the tape from the rest Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the box, so they had one up on me when we settled down most unusual books to read come out of this craze as it later as is a family. We began looking through the robot models on the inside collection of the front love poetry aimed at teenage fans of cover, and as I mentioned which ones I wish we could have, the boys were already laughing with a ''just'' ''wait'' ''and'' ''see'' look on their facesseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396280</amazonuk>