Age 9+. Former Children’s Laureate Dame Jacqueline Wilson has been a lover of poetry for as long as she can remember. Choosing her own favourite poems, she has gathered together a wonderful, vibrant collection from classics such as Shakespeare’s The Fairies’ Song from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to poems by contemporary poets including Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate.
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This is a gorgeous, stunningly produced collection of classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives. Jacqueline has taken great delight in selecting and arranging the book and you can hear her voice in the beautiful poems she has chosen making it a truly personal collection.
Jacqueline Wilson talks about Green Glass Beads in this video:
ISBN: | 9780230758155 |
Publication date: | 2nd September 2011 |
Author: | Jacqueline Wilson |
Publisher: | Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
Format: | Hardback |
Suitable for: | 9+ readers |
Jacqueline Wilson was our Guest Editor in February 2012. Click here to see her selection of books. Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her!) before turning to writing novels full-time.One of ...
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