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[[Category:New Reviews|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danielle Wright (editor) and Mique Moriuchi (illustrator)0995647895|title=My Village: Rhymes from Around Sadie and the WorldSea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseFor Sharing|summary=ISadie'm thinking s mother always said that of all the kinds of books that have ability to surpriseshe was a dreamer, high up her mind never on the list are poetry bookswhat she should be doing. You can generally see the style, idea or genre of a novel from She lives by the cover, River Thames at Greenwich and beyond a few shocks and twists nothing changes. But take poetry on board, and there are surprises on each page – the concentrated form of the literature surely gives the author more chance she loves to bedazzle, 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 Rosen's]] introduction spoke 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 gotspend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. Who would have thought that such a small, succinct and varied little volume would have that much capacity to surprise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806279</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>|author=Walter de la Mare''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>|title=Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes''To the Maritime Museum''. |rating=3 |genre=ChildrenHer imagination was fired. She's Rhymes d love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and Verse|summary=It was went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a surprise for me to read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much of his life in glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and around London – born at least in what is now missed the borough of Greenwich, passing away in Twickenham. The reason I say this is that out of closing bell and the copious poems collected here, itattendant's as if cities warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't exist. Hardly anything of the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on the idyllic and pastoral, and in following on so closely make comfy beds) she was in the footsteps midst of his debut collection, 'Songs an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of Childhood' from 1902dolphins, still verypirates, very much Victorianmermaids and treasure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-AllenEsiri Poem|title=The SquickerwonkersA Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=Selma For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a young girl who finds a strange attraction fun and easy commitment to take on the edge of . Reading a fair – poem a large gypsy caravan-styled contraptionday does not take long, which she entersmere minutes, alone but for her shiny red balloon. She appears and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be alone, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage within, and a disembodied voice introduces them all poem that speaks to hereach reader directly. They are the Squickerwonkers, and as we are about to see, they can reveal someone}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=A Child's entire character with the simplest Garden of actions…Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=2|genre=Anthologies|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>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.

{{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 This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to nursery rhymesarmpits, what you learn at your Mother’s knee as and from failed cowboys to a baby is gospelgirl with springs for feet. Recently I have expanded my repertoire courtesy of Cheshire libraries excellent rhyme time activitiesIt's all very silly, but at heart I still can't quite come to terms with the librarian saying 'washed ''the spider'' out as opposed to my mum’s washed ''poor Incey'' out'. Sadlyall very nonsensical, Williams’ and King’s compendium ''The Oxford Treasury good fun. A proportion of Nursery Rhymes'' doesn’t take my Mum’s side in thisprofits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738666<org/amazonuk>Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Mad About Mega Beasts!0192731831|author=Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz (Illustrator)|ratingtitle=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When I was small I was fascinated with things that were big; big buildingsSee You Later, 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408329352</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A is Amazing!: Poems about FeelingsEscalator|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|titleisbn=Kicking A Ball1849392021|authortitle=Allan Ahlberg|rating=5|genre=ChildrenThere's Rhymes and Verse|summary=There is a boy who likes kicking a ball. It’s the best thing of all for him, and there’s nothing he’d rather be doing, nowhere he’d rather be. We see his bedroom and this 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 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 at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0723271208</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Macavity,the Mystery Cat|author=T S Eliot and Arthur Robins|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=There’s nothing my little boy likes more than to sit down with a tome of good poetry. Currently he is reading T.S. Eliot. Well, that’s what I will be telling them down at playgroup anyway. No need to add that it’s not ‘The Wasteland’. An Alien In The poem in this volume is actually just one from ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ and features the inimitable scoundrel of the title, ''Macavity''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Squishy McFluff: the Invisible Cat!Classroom|author=Pip JonesGervase Phinn

|summary=Meet Ava. She''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a girl collection of great imagination school-based poems and a big heartpoems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, who brings an invisible cat home from limericks and cautionary verse to mum one dayacrostics and haiku, who humours Ava by feeding it invisible food and letting the two bondoffers a broad overview of poetry. But when mess gets madeWith themes including school, families, and mistakes about the house happenseasons, Ava declares innocenceBonfire Night, Nativity plays and blames it all on going to the cat – and youdentist, there'd be surprised how many accidents can be the result of having an invisible kitten indoors…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571302505</amazonuk>s something to appeal to every child.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=What Does the Fox Say?1408304589|authortitle=Ylvis and Svein Nyhus|rating=3|genre=Children's The Orchard Book Of Nursery 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 PoetatoFor Your Baby|author=John HegleyPenny Dann

|summary=In this collection John Hegley says that poetry is like music in that All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to understand it 'sometimes…you need more than one go at it'Sing A Song Of Sixpence. There is certainly more going on with John Hegley’s poems than a first read through reveals. So though 'I am a Poetato' has been published as a book for childrenWith over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, these all the big names are poems for everyone and contain presented in a lot beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for readers of any age to enjoyyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847803970</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Miss Dorothy-Jane Was Ever So VainFrontpage|authorisbn=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 to enter! She spends ever such a long time perfecting her look but on the way to the contest, disaster strikes. 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 thing, even if she gets all dirty and dishevelled in the process? I’m sure you can guess the outcome, but the final ending was a surprise, even for me. A nice surprise, I should add.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848861060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0141324511|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 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>}} {{newreview|title=Counting Sheep: A Bedtime Adventure!|author=Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell|rating=5|genre=ChildrenMichael Rosen's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Tom is supposed to be asleep. He’s been tucked up in bed for ages, 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 finally. But what should be a calming, boring, wind down activity that would put any sane person to sleep does not work for Tom. Because when the sheep come, they steal him off for a bedtime adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804802</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Where's Tim's Ted? It's Time for Bed!Big Book of Bad Things|author=Ian Whybrow and Russell AytoMichael Rosen

|summary=Do you remember that time When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things he'd done and reminded him of them when they were changing guard at Buckingham Palaceappropriate, and Christopher Robin went so Michael imagined he'd written them all down with Alice? Or how about that Christmas when King John (not in a good man) asked for lots Big Book of things but only really wanted a bigBad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, India-rubber ball? These were the poems as well as many many other tales of my childhood, so much so that when this new compilation arrived I remembered some from the horrors of them by heart even though it must have been being a second late to school, to making a raft, to going to a good 20 years since I leafed through 'Now We Are Six' and 'When We Were Very Young'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405268638</amazonuk>café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.

 {{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 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 at the same time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121812</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sean Taylor and Ross Collins|title=Robot Rumpus|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=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 of the box, so they had one up on me when we settled down to read it later as a family. We began looking through the robot models on the inside of the front 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 faces.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396280</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tor Freeman|title=The Toucan Brothers|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I hate to mention illustrations before mentioning the story with a children's book, but the illustrations are clearly the first thing you will notice with the book. My children, drawn by the illustrations, had this pulled out of the box of books it came in and were sitting down reading it before I could even sort through the rest. As soon as I saw this, I thought of [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]. The illustrations are highly reminiscent of Scarry's work, but if anything these are bolder, brighter and busier. If you have a child who is a visual learner, or who needs plenty of visual cues when reading, this book is definitely one you want to take a closer look at. The expressions on the characters faces are perfect and each page literally seems to come to life with so many activities going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447218639</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton033051086X|title=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are two dogs with half baked idea for what thy think will be the perfect crime - despite their previous failures. The dogs prepare a wonderful feast to lure their intended victims out, making cupcakes, pies, buns and every sort of baked treat you can imagine. They have a wonderful time baking, but all the while they are planning to rob all of their guests when the party is in full swing. The feast is a huge success, but the robbery is another disaster. A small act of kindness and a heart felt apology results in forgiveness, and a wonderful idea for a new career. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631462</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Robert L Forbes and Ronald Searle|title=Beast Friends Forever!|rating=3|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=We're never far away from spring, when the thoughts of the whole animal kingdom turn to love - or at least, one aspect of it we'd better not mention in a book for the very young such as this is. Skunks need to smell nice, elephants and crickets need to make the right noises to attract a mate, while others can just celebrate their being together in different ways, whether they be real love birds or grizzly bears. The whole wildlife love life is here, in a very chaste and harmless manner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1590208080</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWorld At Our Feet|author=Roger Stevens|title=What Rhymes With Sneeze?Paul Cookson

|summary=Poems often seem to lose their appeal as we get older. They become tricky things that must be interpreted and understood and written about in essays rather than the instantly enjoyable experiences they are when you're a child. This book contains a wide variety of poems, written by With the author but also some written by other poets, and the author uses them to show children about World Cup just around the different sorts of poetrycorner, various rhyme schemes and how to go about writing your own poems too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408155761</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tariq Kurd and Laura Robertson|title=The Quest In A Vest (Gordon the Goblin)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Gordon the Goblin is more than a little fed up because he football is so small and not big and tough like all of the other goblins. They are all fearless hunters and go off on exciting adventures whilst Gordon is left behindeveryone's lips. He decides that there is nothing else for it but to set out on his very own quest even though he feels very nervous Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at the thought of it[http://www. He approaches nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the chief goblin who laughs at him, before deciding to send him off to capture a dragon – not best football poems for one moment thinking that Gordon will succeedyoung children. It does look like an impossible feat especially as Gordon does lack strength and muscles. Maybe though, he will be able to use his brains and charm rather than relying on brute force. Will Gordon be able to find a dragon and actually persuade him that he wants to be captured and what will happen if he does? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907762051</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Griffiths and Janette Louden0192729934|title=Hats Off!|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary='Hats Off!' is a wonderfully entertaining book that is written entirely in rhyme. It starts by asking if the reader has ever thought about how many hats they might have been bought and whether a hat actually looks good on their head or not. The author, Neil Griffiths, then goes on to suggest that there are: ''Hats too big, too tight''<br>''and too small,''<br>''Hats that just shouldn't''<br>''be worn at all!''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905434839</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross|title=Sticky Ends|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=This is a book of funny rhymes and verses in which rather disgusting and gruesome things happen to the characters involved, with each one getting their comeuppance. Tony Ross obviously had a wonderful time illustrating the book with everything from noses, dripping with blood as they're pinched off right through to Father Christmas using the toilet...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392501</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWhizz Bang Orang-Utan

|summary=This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjectsSubtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl you know what you're getting with springs for feet''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's all very sillya poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, all very nonsensicalwhat they get up to, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia course whizzing and Lymphoma Research]banging orang-utans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956503527</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gervase Phinn0230745865|title=There's An Alien In The Classroom|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 My Sky 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>}} {{newreviewTwilight|author=Penny Dann|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your BabyGaby Morgan (editor)|rating=4.5

|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 SixpenceOff 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. With over sixty nursery rhymes In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to choose from, all come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for yearsseries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things|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 Move on 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>0141324511</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Confident Readers Reviews]]