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Groovy Fish and other Poems by Paula Green
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Author of the award-winning Letterbox Cat, Paula Green's bright new poems have grown out of titles collected from her fans: the children who follow her online at Poetry Box and curl up inside the covers of her books. These poems dash and dart, whisper and purr tell of tap-dancing fish, cheese-spaghetti ...Show more
The Perfect Nine by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
$24.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls 'one of the greatest writers of our time' Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review; he has be ...Show more
My Village: Rhymes From Around the World by Danielle Wright
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A collection of nursery verses for young children as a companion book to traditional Mother Goose titles. From Iran to Iceland, Samoa to Switzerland, readers can delight in quirky, touching and funny verses from 22 different countries, brought to life by the artwork from exciting young UK illustrator, M ...Show more
Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo by Paula Green
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Flamingo Bendalingo, all the animals of the zoo, from sea lions to giraffes, from meerkats to elephants, come to life in poems written by 50 children and experienced AUP poet Paula Green. The animals roar, they squeal, they lope and lie, they splash and munch. The lines of the poems capture in words ...Show more
Jabberwalking by Juan Felipe Herrera (Illustrator)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Mexican-American Poet Laureate in the USA, is sharing secrets: how to turn your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry. Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same ...Show more
Emily Dickinson (Poetry for Kids) by Emily Dickinson
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Poetry for Kids
Let your children discover the works of poet Emily Dickinson in Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson. As the premier title in the Poetry for Kids series, Emily Dickinson introduces children to the works of poet Emily Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar Susan Snively has carefully chosen 35 poems of in ...Show more
The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy
$40.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
A poem by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrating the magic of Christmas during World War One. Published as a large format book with colour illustrations by David RobertsDown at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spr ...Show more
100 Brilliant Poems for Children by Paul Cookson
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
From Paul Cookson comes 100 Brilliant Poems For Children, featuring the best of the absolute best. The essential poems for every child to read and enjoy.
A Kid in My Class by Rachel Rooney
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This first collaboration between a prize-winning poet and the former UK Children's Laureate takes a whole classful of children, plus the class hamster, and draws deft portraits of them all: the pushy, the shy, the dreamy, the daring, the ordinary, the one who wants to be best friends, the one who runs i ...Show more
Bedtime Collection: Stories, Rhymes and Pictures for the Very Young by Compiled by Wendy Cooling
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This delightful collection has been lovingly compiled for babies and toddlers by children's book expert Wendy Cooling, with contributions from the very best of today's authors and illustrators. This magical celebration of words and pictures for the very young is perfect for sharing at any time -- from ...Show more
Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Gaby Morgan
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Read Me
A new cover edition of Read Me, the bestselling poetry anthology with over a quarter of a million copies sold. Read Me contains a poem for every day of the year from the very best modern and classic poets. 365 rhymes, verses and poems from the likes of Brian Patten, William Wordsworth, A. A. Milne, Emil ...Show more
Vikings in the Supermarket by Nick Sharratt
$18.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Dfbees
Six Vikings on a shopping trip, one tartan-patterned cat, a clever little mermaid, a naughty vampire bat, the queen who's really fond of green, the pirate Tidy Clyde, open up this jolly book and meet them all inside!
