Boys will devour this brilliantly funny collection of poetry with poems about secrets, about scary things, about home truths and about pants, of course. Rest assured there will be loud squeals and plenty of laughter wherever this book goes.
A book of poems about pants (and other things besides) which are grouped under five themed chapters - poems to make you laugh, to drive you mad, to make you sick, to scare you, and thoughtful/serious or sad poems. They are in a variety of genres and styles, from haiku and limericks, to sonnets and sestinas.
Roger Stevens has had more than a hundred poems for children published in wide-ranging anthologies from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Poetry (Hutchinson) to The Works (Every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour) (Macmillan). His verse-novel for teenagers, The Journal of Danny Chaucer (Poet) (Orion) was published in May 2002 and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 in June 2003. His solo collections for children include I Did Not Eat the Goldfish (Macmillan) and The Monster That Ate the Universe (Macmillan).
