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Poems to Fall in Love With by Chris Riddell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
In Poems to Fall in Love With, Chris Riddell OBE, political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love.This gorgeous collection celebrates love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These po ...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
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
What the Road Said by Cleo Wade; Lucie de Moyencourt (Illustrator)
$43.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Which way do I go? That is your choice to make, said the Road. But what if I go the wrong way?The Road curved a little, almost as if it was giving me a hug, and said, Do not worry. Sometimes we go the wrong way on our way to the right way. It's okay to be afraid or to sometimes wander down the wron ...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
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
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
Driftwood Dragons: And Other Seaside Poems by Tyne Brown
$13.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Driftwood Dragons is a collection of thirty-four lyrical seaside poems for children. Inspired by the coastline and accompanied by whimsical illustrations, these poems are celebrations of the coastal environment. From an ode to a beach flea to a short conversation with a snail, Driftwood Dragons perfectl ...Show more
Even My Ears are Smiling by Michael Rosen
$19.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Following the publication of bestselling Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy, Michael Rosen has followed up with a brilliant new book of poems that are funny, thought-provoking and always with Michael's immediately accessible and child-centred voice. The poems included are a mix of classic favouri ...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!
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 s ...Show more
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
