"Sam Gayton’s first collection of poems scores high,"
Sam Gayton’s stories are always playful, original, bursting with ideas and ‘what ifs’, so it’s no surprise that his first poetry collection is too.
The poems in Press Start to Play often have their starting point in video games, playground games or word games, and there’s lots of fun to be had in poems like ‘I Am Monopoly, Destroyer of Families, All Shall Play Me and Despair’, ‘High Score Holder’ or ‘The Three Year Olds Are Having a Match’.
There are poems that are puzzles, satisfying and shareable, and more that grow from word play. Others though, while still celebrating the joy that games provide, are quieter and more contemplative, poems like ‘I Wish Today Had Been a Game’ or ‘The World Within My Bedroom’, which will also strike a chord with readers.
Throughout, poetry is presented as a top game, one that gives you a chance to explore, play, develop ideas and stretch your imagination so it’s great that poems to prompt poetry writing are also included. A collection like this, reader-focussed and that places rollicking rhymes, riddles, wordplay and poems about school alongside thought-provoking poems that broaden readers’ view of the world, is definitely a winner.
The design is great too, with a special flick book element included.
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Get ready to press start on . . . video games, board games, word games, playground games, card games, and play by yourself games when you’re feeling sad games. This laugh-out-loud, brilliantly imaginative, interactive collection of poetry celebrates play in all its forms.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Press Start to Play and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Press Start to Play features in the following genres: Featured Books for 9+ readers, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Computers and the Digital World, Science, Poetry Books for Children, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Computer and video games, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Games, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Hobbies, quizzes, toys and games
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Press Start to Play was written by Sam Gayton and published by Andersen Press an imprint of Andersen Press Ltd
Press Start to Play has 113 pages
£6.29, reduced from £6.99. In Stock.
