Collected Poems for Children (Macmillan Classics) by Charles Causley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
Church bells ought to greet the arrival of Causley's Collected Poems for Children... it is so plum-pudding-rich in delight' Children's Books History SocietyA beautiful hardback edition of Charles Causley's Collected Poems for Children with a foreword by Roger McGough and illustrated with woodcuts by Joh ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (paperback) by Ted Hughes
$33.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in "Under the North Star" and "What is the Truth?" and ending with "Season Songs", which Hughes rem ...Show more
Dragon in the Classroom and Other Poems About School by Brian Moses
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
An irreverent and humorous look at non-fiction topics through poetry that includes a range of poems that are old and new, familiar and fantastical, poems containing patterned and predictable language and ones with more challenging vocabulary.
Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Series: Illustrated Originals
Edward Lear's timeless collection of limericks, jokes and rhymes are bound to delight young children.
Emily Dickinson (Poetry for Kids) (HB) by Emily Dickinson
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Series: Poetry for Kids
Let your children discover the works of poet Emily Dickinson in Poetry for Kids: Emily Dickinson. As the premier title in the Poetry for Kids series, Emily Dickinson introduces children to the works of poet Emily Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar Susan Snively has carefully chosen 35 poems of in ...Show more
Even My Ears are Smiling CD & Book by Michael Rosen
$29.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Reading Level: From 7
Following the publication of bestselling Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy, Michael Rosen has followed up with a brilliant new book of poems that are funny, thought-provoking and always with Michael's immediately accessible and child-centred voice. The poems included are a mix of classic favouri ...Show more
Footprints on the Moon and Other Poems About Space by Brian Moses
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
An irreverent and humorous look at non-fiction topics through poetry that includes a range of poems that are old and new, familiar and fantastical, poems containing patterned and predictable language and ones with more challenging vocabulary.
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight by Edward Lear
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
Renowned author Daniel Pinkwater and best-selling poet and artist Calef Brown team up to champion the ridiculous! These endlessly fascinating and imaginative poems are as fresh and delightful today as they were when Edward Lear wrote them more than a hundred years ago from "The Owl and the Pussycat" to ...Show more
How the Whale Became: and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$15.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Reading Level: 6-9
This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5 and more tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the Nor ...Show more
Inside Out: Children's Poets Discuss Their Work by JonArno Lawson
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
Just how do poets come up with their ideas? Do their ideas come to them in a flash of inspiration or do they slave away for months or years? Edited by Canadian poet Jonarno Lawson, this is an illustrated poetry book with a difference. A selection of verse from top contemporary poets - including Children ...Show more
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
$30.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry | Series: Clothbound Classics
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass", in his wonderfully playful poem of nonsense verse, "Jabberwocky". This beautiful, clothbound new edition collects together the marv ...Show more
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's poetry
Jack; Room 105 - -Miss Stretchberry September 13 I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do But before he knows it, Jack is creating his own poetry and a wonderful story emerges as he becomes interested in this thing that 'girls do'! Not only is Jack inspired to write to his favourite poe ...Show more