Dive into the ocean for a noisy rhyming romp packed with favourite sea creatures brought to life with fun, vibrant artwork. This bestselling picture book from an award-winning creative team is a delight to read aloud and share with young children.
Six popular fairy tales are retold irreverently in rhyme by master storyteller Dahl. In "Cinderella," the prince isn't as charming as everyone thinks, and Cinderella marries someone else. In "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the magic mirror is used by Snow White to predict winners at the races. Other transformed tales are "Jack and the Beanstalk ...
Barely had the first copies of Christopher Matthew's 'Now We Are Sixty' landed in the bookshops when people started to ask when he was going to write a sequel. To his surprise the temptation to try his hand at a few more poems (particularly based on originals he hadn't tackled before, such as the Emperor's Rhyme or Sneezles) proved, like age ...
Ezekiel and Raphael Dubb are two tigers whose voyage to strange lands is narrated in rhyming couplets, by the author of "Watership Down" which won the Guardian Award for children's fiction in 1972 and the Carnegie Medal in 1973. He has also written "Shardik" and "The Plague". Nicola Bayley other books include "Nicola Bayley's Book of Nursery ...
From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of ...
Four of Edward Lear's longer nonsense poems, illustrated with whimsical drawings. The poems are "The Jumblies, "The Dong with a Luminous Nose," "The Scrubious Pip," and the title poem, "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear."
Linked to the radio programme "Bookworm", this is a collection of comic poems, by authors such as Spike Milligan, Ogden Nash, Jonathan Swift and John Betjeman.
This is a delightful first poetry book in a picture book format, illustrated in colour throughout by award-winning artist Nick Sharratt. The poems are just right for this age bracket with themes such as wishing for snow, putting up decorations, peeking at your Christmas stocking, delivering presents by rocket ship and of course baby Jesus. The ...
This collection of humorous poetry includes such selections as "A Poem to Send Your Worst Enemy" and "Picking Noses." Pen-and-ink illustrations accompany the verses.
William Cowper (1731-1800) was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. His major works are: Olney Hymns (1779), in collaboration with ...
Here, for the first time, is complete collection of actor and entertainer Stanley Holloway's incomparable comic monologues, which he performed between 1929 and 1941. All the much-loved characters such as Albert Ramsbottom ('with a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle'), Sam Small ('Sam, Sam, pick oop tha' arm), and King Arold ('on his 'orse with his ...
An English humorist reflects on turning 60 in the style of A. A. Milne's poems for children. Illustrations recall the ones that originally adorned Milne's verses.
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets--from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W.H. Auden--and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. Ribbon marker.
Paul Cookson and David Harmer, two of the most popular, best selling authors, perform regularly as a double act called "Spill the Beans". Their performance poetry is lively and entertaining and involves a lot of audience participation. "Spill the Beans" contains all their greatest hits. These poems need to be performed out loud - on your own, with ...
This lively collection of poems should raise a giggle and a smile from any child with a sense of fun. Poets as such Hilaire Belloc and Philip Larkin, Wendy Cope and Spike Milligan ponder themes including families, creatures, learning and food, with some cautionary advice thrown in for good measure.
Ready to be grossed out? And made to laugh at the same time? Here are all sorts of disgusting poems about hairs in your food, snot and bogey pie, exploding spots, blood-sucking leeches, slobbery saliva, not to mention things that get caught in your teacher's beard-and between their toes...The poets include Jack Prelutsky, Wendy Cope, Paul Cookson, ...
Can you conquer the codes and unravel the riddles - without tearing your hair out? This book is full of different types of puzzle poems to solve with all sorts of brainteasers, anagrams, acrostics, spoonerisms, rebuses, and poems you just have to say out loud if you want the answer - if you can work out how to say them! With many amusing poems, ...
Limericks, clerihews and other forms of light verse by contemporary and classic poets are introduced with delightful commentary. Color illustrations throughout.
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