Poetry Books for Children

Where Zebras Go Poems
Sue Hardy-Dawson
Shortlisted for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2018 Get ready to join in the Poetry Olympics, question a snake, talk to a toad and learn 20 ways to avoid monsters and mythical beasts. Where Zebras Go will lead... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

Firecrackers
Zaro Weil
April 2018 Book of the Month Beautifully illustrated by Jo Riddell, this collection of poems and stories is a perfect gift book. It's ideal for dipping into, for quiet reading and for reading aloud; indeed, unusually amongst the stories, haikus... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 28/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

Beetle in the Bathroom
Brian Moses
The insects have well and truly taken over the bathroom in Brian Moses and Sonia Holleyman's lively, satisfying picture book. You won't believe the things you'll hear - an earwig using Dad's aftershave, a caterpillar shampooing his hair, a beetle... Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/02/2018 Info Extract Buy

All the Year Round
John Yeoman
December 2017 Book of the Month A series of twelve short, funny poems, one for every month of the year, written with brio by John Yeoman and illustrated by Quentin Blake with all his characteristic vitality and joie de vivre,... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 05/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

My Mum's Growing Down
Laura Dockrill
A larger than life collection of poems for a middle grade audience about one wild, hysterical and hilarious Mum. Lovereading Review will follow. Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/08/2017 Info Extract Buy

All Aboard the London Bus
Patty Toht
Both an engaging guidebook to the major sights of our capital city and a collection of new London poems, this is a lovely book to read aloud and to look at. Sam Usher's attractive pen and watercolour illustrations catch the... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Vikings in the Supermarket
Nick Sharratt
Six bouncy poems each of which is richly illustrated by award-winning illustrator Nick Sharratt. Burt, Cora, Charlie, Selwin, Ida and Quentin are the six Vikings let loose on a delightful shopping spree in a supermarket in the title poem. More... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/03/2016 Info Extract Buy

I Wish I Had a Pirate's Hat
Roger Stevens
Another lively collection from Roger Stevens, who does more to inspire a love of poetry in young children than almost anyone, and these are ‘poems to chase the clouds away.' Grouped into three sections – Fun Time, School Time and... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/08/2015 Info Extract Buy

Shuffle and Squelch
Julia Donaldson
A joyful collection of poems for young children by an author who is completely in tune with her audience! Julia Donaldson celebrates the delights of going to the park, walking the dog, pizza, riding a bike and sliding down the... Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/07/2015 Info Extract Buy

Wriggle and Roar
Julia Donaldson
Giggle along to these wonderful rhymes whether you're with your toddler in the nursery or the car. Full of action and noise it's guaranteed to get kids engaged and stimulated to love poetry. Featured in: 3+ readers | 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/06/2015 Info Extract Buy

Over the Hills and Far Away A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes from Around the World
Elizabeth Hammill
Selected by a distinguished independent panel of experts including our editorial expert, Julia Eccleshare, for Diverse Voices - 50 of the best Children's Books celebrating cultural diversity in the UK.A fine collection of poems and rhymes from all... Featured in: Baby and Toddler | 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 02/10/2014 Info Extract Buy

Out and About A First Book of Poems
Shirley Hughes
From the joys of the seaside to the miseries of the sickbed, this exuberant volume captures to perfection the world of childhood. It is a beautiful gift edition of the classic picture book, with a new introduction by Shirley Hughes. Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2014 Info Extract Buy

Once Upon a Star
James Carter
Poetry is possibly the best way to convey the wonder of space and our own place in it, and James Carter's text for this picture book is both precise and inspiring: ‘A sea of stars at last were born/gradually they... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/03/2018 Info Extract Buy

A Great Big Cuddle
Michael Rosen
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2017 | Joint Winner of the CLiPPA 2016 (CLPE Children's Poetry Award). Children's Laureates Chris Riddell and Michael Rosen combine here to create a beautiful collection of ebullient poems for the very young. ... Featured in: Baby and Toddler | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot
The world-famous rhymes starring cats such as Macavity the Mystery Cat and Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat are beautifully presented in this edition with illustrations by Axel Scheffler best-known for his pictures of the Gruffalo. Perfect for reading out loud, the... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/08/2015 Info Extract Buy

Little Lemur Laughing
Joshua Seigal
Joshua Seigal is a rising star in the children's poetry world and this new collection of his poems will be a real crowd-pleaser. Many of them are crying out to be read aloud, Brontosaurus for example, with its Stomp... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

Revolting Rhymes
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl takes on the likes of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs and brings us a brilliant collection of comic and often gory versions of popular fairy tales. Dahl's Gobblefunk is brought to life... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

Jim
Hilaire Belloc
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month January 2017 Award-winning Mini Grey pulls no punches in her brilliant illustrations to this classic cautionary tale. Jim's parents give him everything but, even so, he has a dangerous tendency to run... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/01/2017 Info Extract Buy

1066 and Before That - History Poems
Brian Moses, Roger Stevens
A fantastic collection of history poems that conjure up the sights, sounds and smells of the past - both the great events and battles, and ordinary day-to-day activities. Ties in with the history curriculum for Key Stage 1 and Key... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 07/04/2016 Info Extract Buy

Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat
T. S. Eliot
Arthur Robins's scratchy illustrations are full of humour and he's proving to be the perfect partner for T.S. Eliot. Skimbleshanks is the third of the Old Possum poems Robins has illustrated and it's another rousing success. The world Eliot describes... Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/11/2015 Info Extract Buy

Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Gaby Morgan
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Format: Paperback | Released 18/06/2015 Info Extract Buy

My Life as a Goldfish And Other Poems
Rachel Rooney
Shortlisted for 2015 CLPE Poetry Award - the only award in the UK for published children's poetry - Chosen as one of the Top Ten Best New Books for Children 2015 by Andrea Reece. A list of top books... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/10/2014 Info Extract Buy

I'm a Little Alien
James Carter
Meet a little green alien; then zoom off in your rocket to find space poems, rhymes about mermaids, funny faces and even a greedy robot. This is a fun and playful new collection by an award-winning poet who knows how... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/08/2014 Info Extract Buy

The Ride-by-Nights
Walter de la Mare
This is the second of Walter de la Mare's poems to be turned into a picture book by Carolina Rabei and her illustrations provide a rich setting. It's Hallowe'en and ‘Up on their brooms the Witches stream/Crooked and black in... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/09/2015 Info Extract Buy

Brian Moses' School Report Very Funny Poems About School
Brian Moses
A fantastic collection of modern poems all about school from the talented poet Brian Moses. There are rhyming poems and funny poems and lots of poems about teachers - and exactly what they get up to behind the staffroom door... Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/07/2014 Info Extract Buy

The Penguin in Lost Property
Jan Dean, Roger Stevens
A super new collection of poems featuring a vast range of animals, birds and fish, from the penguin in lost property making a bid for freedom, to the cat that would rather be eating spiders than lapping up milk. Funny... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/07/2014 Info Extract Buy

Peacock Pie A Book of Rhymes
Walter de la Mare
The poems that make up this collection were first published in 1913 but it was not until 1946 that it was published, as it is in this new edition, with Edward Ardizzone's illustrations. Though de la Mare's poems describe a... Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/01/2015 Info Extract Buy

Zim Zam Zoom Zappy Poems to Read Out Loud
James Carter
Shortlisted for the CLPE Children's Poetry Award (CLiPPA) 2017 Longlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award 16 poems to read out loud - perfect for sharing at home or at school Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/05/2016 Info Extract Buy

Poems to Perform A Classic Collection Chosen by the Children's Laureate
Julia Donaldson
A vibrant collection of poems perfect to be performed by two or more voices! Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/01/2014 Info Extract Buy

I Can Read! Oxford Poetry for 6 Year Olds
John Foster
This poetry collection for 6 year olds, with parental guidance and notes for every poem, has been created in line with the National Curriculum to support children learning to read at home and build confidence for school. Poetry is a... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/03/2016 Info Extract Buy

I Can Read! Oxford Poetry for 5 Year Olds
John Foster
Poetry is a fun way for children to enjoy learning to read, developing their vocabulary and understanding of ideas and themes. This collection offers a wide range of poems to appeal to all children, from poems about special days such... Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/03/2016 Info Extract Buy

Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum
Julia Donaldson
A wonderful collection of poems from the much-loved creator of The Gruffalo, all of them perfect for reading aloud. There are funny poems (lots of those as you'd expect) and nonsense rhymes as well as story poems and quieter poems... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/07/2015 Info Extract Buy

Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Michael Rosen
September 2018 Book of the Month | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | Michael Rosen is the bestselling author of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, along with many other picture books and collections of poetry.... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Rhythm and Poetry
Karl Nova
Winner of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2018 The first published collection from Hip Hop poet Karl Nova has a refreshing directness, honesty and authenticity. Many of the poems are drawn from the workshops he does with children... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 27/07/2017 Info Extract Buy

Overheard in a Tower Block
Joseph Coelho
Shortlisted for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2018 This second solo collection from Joseph Coelho, Overheard in a Tower Block, explores further some of the themes from Werewolf Club Rules (which won the CLiPPA in 2015). More suited... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/07/2017 Info Extract Buy

Rising Stars
Ruth Awolola, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Abigail Cook, Jay Hulme, Amina Jama
Highly Commended in the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2018 Five emerging writer-performers are showcased in a book which is a blend of anthology & individual collections. Ruth Awolola wonders about our world, the stars beyond, the beings that... Featured in: 11+ readers | 13+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 26/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Rainmaker Danced
John Agard
Shortlisted for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2018 John Agard's poems display an intense integrity, never talking down to children, encouraging them to question, while being playful in tone, witty or satirical. They focus on social observations, play... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 21/09/2017 Info Extract Buy

Moonrise
Sarah Crossan
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2018 | Shortlisted for the Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award 2018 | One of Our Books of the Year 2017 | Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2017 | In a... Featured in: YA readers | 13+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 07/09/2017 Info Extract Buy

I'm Just No Good At Rhyming
Chris Harris
A completely refreshing and exciting collection of poetry that will encourage even the most determined poetry avoiders to have a peek and maybe get involved. It's beautifully packaged and filled with close to a hundred illustrations from award winning illustrator,... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 19/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

All the Wild Wonders
Wendy Cooling
Poems that span the globe encouraging all readers to look at the good and the bad aspects of it make this a rich and original anthology. Twinning the themes of the wonders of the world and the horrors of how... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Dinosaurs and Dinner-Ladies
John Dougherty
John Dougherty's poetic debut ‘Dinosaurs & Dinner-Ladies' is a collection of sheer brilliance with all the wit and charm we've come to expect from this popular fiction writer. Dougherty draws on his experiences as a teacher and captures school-life to... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 14/06/2016 Info Extract Buy

Adder, Bluebell, Lobster
Chrissie Gittins
A wonderfully innovative collection bursting with energy, you can't help but read with a smile. Chrissie Gittins is on a mission to save words from extinction, with forty exuberant and informative poems to celebrate amazing animals, birds and plants. The... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/08/2016 Info Extract Buy

100 Brilliant Poems for Children
Paul Cookson
Paul Cookson's collection does not claim to be the definitive hundred brilliant poems, but it comes close; providing a fun, inspiring and diverse introduction to poetry for children. Not only are the classics of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Whitman out in... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 25/08/2016 Info Extract Buy

The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month July 2016 A perfect celebration of Alice Day 2016, this beautiful, fully illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's great comic masterpiece which comes complete with gilt-edged pages and a ribbon for a marker, is the... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 30/06/2016 Info Extract Buy

I Can Read! Oxford Poetry for 7 Year Olds
John Foster
Poetry is a fun way for children to enjoy learning to read, developing their vocabulary and understanding of ideas and themes. This collection of 44 fun poems for 7 year olds offers a wide range to appeal to all children,... Featured in: 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 03/03/2016 Info Extract Buy

National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry
J. Patrick Lewis
When words in verse are paired with the awesomeness of nature, something magical happens! Beloved former U.S. Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis curates an exhuberant poetic celebration of the natural world in this stellar collection of nature poems. Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 05/11/2015 Info Extract Buy

Never Nudge a Budgie!
Colin West
Colin West writes wonderfully funny poetry for children and deserves to be a household name alongside Roger McGough and Michael Rosen. This collection is divided into sections including Dotty Ditties, Tricky Tongue-Twisters, Vicious Verses and Curious Creatures and is jam-packed... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/10/2015 Info Extract Buy

Vanishing Trick Poems by Ros Asquith
Ros Asquith
When I hear the word word My brain goes blurred My mind feels furred. Word is a strange word isn't it? It has too many meanings, doesn't it? After all, everything's a word. How absurd. Ros Asquith is a Guardian... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/08/2015 Info Extract Buy

Read Me 2: A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Gaby Morgan
A handsome and welcome new edition of this excellent poetry book, which contains a poem for every day of the year. The range of poems included is simply superb – there are traditional poems and classics alongside poems by contemporary... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 18/06/2015 Info Extract Buy

I am a Poetato An A-Z of Poems About People, Pets and Other Creatures
John Hegley
From A-Z - Alligator to The Dog Runs (Zoom) - John Hegley has a witty, surprising and always entertaining poem for every letter. Wonderfully varied, there are poems about people, pets and all kinds of other creatures. In each of... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/04/2015 Info Extract Buy

You Tell Me!
Roger McGough, Michael Rosen
Football, first love, teachers and tongue-twisters is a fantastic poetry collection by two of the funniest, most famous poets writing today. Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 08/01/2015 Info Extract Buy

I Love My Mum
Gaby Morgan
Gaby Morgan has gathered together a really wonderful selection of poems about mums. There are over 50 in this little volume, some will make you smile, some will probably turn you a bit teary, but each one contains something true... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 29/01/2015 Info Extract Buy

A is Amazing! Poems About Feelings
Wendy Cooling
To dip in and out of whatever your mood and to savour in longer moments, this is a thought-provoking anthology. How different poems capture different moods and moments unfolds beautifully in both Wendy Cooling's careful choice of poems and Piet... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 07/08/2014 Info Extract Buy

Werewolf Club Rules! And Other Poems
Joseph Coelho
Winner of 2015 CLPE Poetry Award - the only award in the UK for published children's poetry An exciting debut poetry collection from an exciting new voice. The collection includes a wide range of poems, from funny and fantastical to... Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 01/08/2014 Info Extract Buy

Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear
Best-loved nonsense songs such as The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Jumblies, The Dong with the Luminous Nose and many more are included in this highly attractive volume. The jokes at the heart of each are perfectly illustrated by Christine... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/05/2014 Info Extract Buy

Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses
Brian Moses
Brian Moses is one of our most widely read and popular poets, a regular visitor to schools and festivals. This collection gathers together over 100 of his best poems. It includes some of the poems that make his public performances... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 23/02/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Same Inside
Liz Brownlee, Roger Stevens, Matt Goodfellow
This collection features poems by three of our best-known and best-loved children's poets, Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens. Between them, using a range of poetic styles and voices, they cover lots of topics – friendship and togetherness, difference,... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 11/01/2018 Info Extract Buy

Centrally Heated Knickers
Michael Rosen
I think poetry for children needs to be saved from the cold dissection of right and wrong answers and put back into rooms and halls full of wonder, compassion, haunting, laughter, music and rhythm. We need to hear its many... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
In a nutshell: 366 poems, an inspiring new anthology ‘Poetry powerhouse' Allie Esiri follows up the bestselling A Poem for Every Night of the Year with another lively, inspiring collection. There's a huge range of poems included, by poets old... Featured in: 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 07/09/2017 Info Extract Buy

The World's Greatest Space Cadet
James Carter
Yes, there's a poem to a space cadet in this typically lively, inviting and memorable new collection from James Carter; but it's an ode not to an astronaut but to a dreamer, someone whose head is firmly in a cloud.... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 12/01/2017 Info Extract Buy

What is Poetry?
Michael Rosen
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets. Lovereading Review will follow... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/10/2016 Info Extract Buy

Collected Poems for Children: Macmillan Classics Edition
Charles Causley
This Macmillan Classics edition is truly a special gift to treasure. The poems in this collection all by Charles Causley, who is considered to be one of the greatest post-war poets, were chosen and arranged by him. They feature as great... Featured in: 9+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/10/2016 Info Extract Buy

A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Allie Esiri
One of our Books of the Year 2016 | A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2016 A fabulously rich anthology of 366 poems - one for every night of the year as promised in the title. Or for... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 08/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

Wonderland: Alice in Poetry
Lewis Carroll
Shortlisted for the CLPE Children's Poetry Award (CLiPPA) 2017 Lewis Carroll's Alice has been enchanting children for 150 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter are among the best-loved, most iconic... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 22/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

I Don't Like Poetry
Joshua Seigal
What do you mean you don't like poetry? This must mean you've not read the debut collection of poems from Joshua Seigal! Whether it's poems about the power of books or the joys of fried chicken, once you've read Joshua's... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 08/09/2016 Info Extract Buy

There's a Monster in the Garden
David Harmer
School life, families, football, aliens - these are some of performance poet David Harmer's favourite things, all popular themes for his poems. Like the title poem to this collection, they are often presented with something of a ‘what if?' warning,... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 07/05/2015 Info Extract Buy

New and Collected Poems for Children
Carol Ann Duffy
A stunning collection of poems for children by the Poet Laureate. Carol Ann Duffy's collection opens with ‘The Words of Poems', which is a perfect introduction to the feast of delights found within this anthology. Duffy's poems encompass everything from... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/04/2017 Info Extract Buy

Reaching the Stars
Liz Brownlee, Jan Dean, Michaela Morgan
New poems by three of our brightest and liveliest poets are gathered together in this anthology which celebrates women and girls, lots of them. The lives of the really famous – Malala, Frida Kahlo, Amy Johnson, Hillary Rodham Clinton –... Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/03/2017 Info Extract Buy

What Are We Fighting For? New Poems About War
Roger Stevens, Brian Moses
Wide- ranging and thoughtful, this anthology of poems by award-winning poets Roger Stevens and Brian Moses captures the many different aspects of war. Divided into three sections the first of which focuses on different aspects of World War 1, the... Featured in: 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/01/2014 Info Extract Buy

Poems from the First World War Published in Association with Imperial War Museums
Gaby Morgan
Written by those who were involved at the time, this is a thoughtful and powerful selection of poems that capture many different experiences of war. The soldiers' view is reflected in familiar poems such as Wilfred Owen's haunting Dulce Et... Featured in: 11+ readers | 7+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 08/05/2014 Info Extract Buy

One
Sarah Crossan
Winner for the Children's Book Award 2017 - Books for Older Readers Category | One of our Books of the Year 2016 | Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016. Joint Winner of the CLiPPA 2016 (CLPE Children's Poetry Award).... Featured in: 13+ readers | YA readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/06/2016 Info Extract Buy

Olympic Poems - 100% Unofficial!
Brian Moses, Roger Stevens
Sport – winning, losing, taking part – is celebrated in this typically skilful collection from two of our most popular poets for young people. There are funny poems, story poems, contemplative ones to make you see things clearer or differently,... Featured in: 9+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 02/06/2016 Info Extract Buy

Booked
Kwame Alexander
Shortlisted for the CLPE Children's Poetry Award (CLiPPA) 2017 Nick is football mad, finding more poetry, more to stimulate him on the soccer field and with a ball at his feet than he ever does in books. This doesn't go... Featured in: 9+ readers | 11+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 05/05/2016 Info Extract Buy