"A book of poems to bring the outside in"
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.
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Inspiring poems to connect with nature.
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.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Outside In Nature Poems and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
Outside In Nature Poems features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Books of the Month, Recommendations, The Natural World, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Non Fiction, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Poetry Books for Children, Ecological and Environmental Interest - Fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s / Teenage poetry, anthologies, annuals, Children’s / Teenage: General interest
Outside In Nature Poems is available in Hardback
Outside In Nature Poems was written by Daniel Thompson and published by Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Outside In Nature Poems has 95 pages
£8.99
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