Poetry for Children by Sam Taplin; Kristina Swarner (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
A luxurious new treasury of poetry for older children, featuring a selection of work from classic and modern poets including Shakespeare, Byron, Ted Hughes and Wendy Cope, alongside all new original poetry by Sam Taplin. The poems cover many different themes and moods, and are chosen to show children ho ...Show more
Mr. Posey's New Glasses by Ted Kooser; Daniel Duncan (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
In a charming tale of an elderly man and his obliging young friend, former poet laureate Ted Kooser and newcomer Daniel Duncan invite us to look at the world with fresh eyes. Mr. Posey is feeling gloomy. Everything seems dull. Maybe he needs new glasses? Perhaps a trip to the Cheer Up Thrift Shop with h ...Show more
Nature Poems: Give Me Instead of a Card by HEARLD, MARK
$9.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
With a space inside to write your own message, this charming poetry-pamphlet is the perfect gift for any time of year. Baby birds singing in the spring; bees humming on a summer's day; an autumn harvest of sweet, juicy apples; the "criss-cross patterns" of bare branches in winter... Originally appearing ...Show more
Selected Poems: Donne by John Donne
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Regarded by many as the greatest of the Metaphysical poets, John Donne (1572-1631) was also among the most intriguing figures of the Elizabethan age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful love poetry in his youth, he was raised a Catholic but later became one of the most admired Protestant preach ...Show more
The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice by A. F. Harrold
$29.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
A riotous celebration of words and a modern take on cautionary tales featuring advice on parrots, gravy, mathematics, castles (bouncy), spiders, vegetables (various), breakfast, cakes, and removing ducks from soup.Advice comes in many shapes. Poems come in many shapes. And so, it follows, poems of advic ...Show more
A Passing On of Shells: 50 Fifty-Word Poems by Simon Lamb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
A dazzling collection of poems from an emerging poet, illustrated by Chris Riddell Age range 9+A dazzling collection of poems from an emerging poet, illustrated by Chris RiddellScottish poet Simon Lamb delivers a debut collection for children of fifty luminous poems, each written in exactly fifty words, ...Show more
Poems for 8 Year Olds by Matt Goodfellow
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
A brilliant collection of poems for 8 year olds packed with poems about friends, space, pets, nature, magic, family, school, adventure, compiled by A. F Harrold.Includes classic and contemporary poems by Lewis Carroll, A.F. Harrold, Matt Goodfellow, Charles Causley, Laura Mucha, Jan Dean, Kate Wakelin, ...Show more
Everyone Sang: A Poem for Every Feeling by Sieghart, William
$39.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
A magnificent anthology of poems themed around different moods, collected by the bestselling creator of The Poetry Pharmacy and illustrated by Emily Sutton.This exquisite gift-book contains over a hundred poems, chosen by creator of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy, William Sieghart, and illustrated ...Show more
Mother Earth: Poems To Celebrate the Wonder of Nature by Libby Hathorn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
Let's dream of what we can become, Mother Earth, I am your son. Food and shelter, climate, water, Mother Earth, I am your daughter. Mother Earth is a warm, funny, beautiful collection of nature poems. Written with great sensitivity by multi-award-winning poet and author Libby Hathorn and with superb il ...Show more
The Riding Gallery by Sally Murphy
$16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Poetry
Exploring the true story of the St Kilda merry go round during World War 1, by Australia's most revered verse novelistIn Melbourne's St Kilda, as World War 1 begins, Anton, a German immigrant fulfils his dream of creating the most beautiful steam-driven "riding gallery" - a merry go round - in the world ...Show more
A Kid in My Class by Rachel Rooney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Childrens 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