About this deal
Featuring award-winning poets, brand new voices, hip-hop artists and spoken-word performers, this is a wonderfully fresh, diverse and relevant new anthology that will get children laughing, thinking, sharing and performing! Widely anthologised, her own books include Hopscotch in the Sky (Little Island, illus. There are patterned poems and rhymes, playground rhymes, action rhymes and songs, nonsense rhymes and funny poems, poems from different cultures, riddles and tongue-twisters, skipping rhymes and clapping rhymes, counting rhymes, story poems, nursery rhymes and traditional rhymes, chants and poems to perform, poems about everyday life and imaginary worlds, and poems on common themes. ‘Publisher: Ladybird and Guzzler’s Party (Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland, illus.
Reviews
Deb
It's best suited for middle schoolers. For younger kids it might be useful for recitation or enacting with a parent or teacher's help. Also some of the poems are too long with too close prints, something that might not be attractive to primary students. It's a good collection of poems.
Print is in black and white and not colorful.