This varied, brightly illustrated collection brings together 50 poems all inspired by the natural world. Topics and themes range from trees and plants to weather, the wildlife on our doorsteps and animals we only see on TV. Readers are encouraged to enjoy the delights of splashing in mud – very topical for the current UK Spring - while another poem is a gentle depiction of a garden full of snow.
Thompson uses different poetic devices playfully and effectively, A World Without B(ee)s for example is cleverly and bee-utifully built upon alliteration, while My Neighbour, The Thunderstorm, personifies stormy weather as a girl who lives upstairs. Some poems use the natural world to inspire readers with a sense of calm or encourage them to find sources of hope in nature, but those I particularly like are the ones that simply ask readers to look and listen to the world around us. This is a book to bring the outside in, and with their rhymes and metres, the poems should lodge in readers’ hearts so that they’ve always got the outdoors close by.
This collection of 50 poems will spark a love of nature, bring calm and happiness and let the outside in.
Beautifully illustrated by Julia Murray, it is filled with poems for children to read alone or to read aloud to the whole family, or to share in a classroom setting.
With poems about the seasons, senses, wildlife, weather and the joys of mud, this celebration of nature will bring a feeling of calm and happiness to both young and older readers. It’s the perfect gift book for children to treasure.
From poet, Daniel Thompson, author of Being You: Poems of Positivity winner of the 2023 City Kids Green Awards and selected for the Reading Agency’s 2023 Summer reading challenge.
Daniel Thompson is a poet, storyteller, film maker and musician.
His recent collection of poems Big Thoughts For Little Thinkers has been an Amazon best seller in both humorous poetry for children and children's philosophy. Being You: Poems of Positivity was City Kids Green Awards Winner in 2023 and selected for the Reading Agency’s 2023 Summer reading challenge.
Daniel is passionate about encouraging children to explore the philosophical principles behind self belief and inner positivity.
