Choose your favourite sound, bob like a robin, soak up the stillness of the forest, jump like a startled kangaroo or go to a monster jamboree. But keep an eye out for a dinosaur at the bus stop!
Funny, gentle, thoughtful, magical – this is an outstanding collection for younger readers, from an award-winning poet whose beautifully crafted, musical poetry will be loved by younger children.
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"This collection for 5+ readers wanders addictively from the fastest poem in the world to a “sensible” fart poem, from the “pudding space” in your stomach to the treasures you hold before you sleep. Funny, sly, welcoming and filled with unassuming magic."
" - The Guardian
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"Using rhyme, half-rhymes, concrete poetry and bouncing metre, these gentle, humorous poems of children’s everyday lives, with some monsters and dinosaurs thrown in (as well as a “serious” poem about farts), are lively entertainment. They invite memorising, performance and imitation. (Ideally not of the farts.)"
" - The Sunday Times: Best children’s books for summer 2023
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@One of Kate Wakeling’s strengths is what she can achieve with the simplest vocabulary and, consequently, how her poems might be enjoyed by a wide age range. So, while this new collection might be read by eight to ten-year-olds, it could certainly be read to much younger children.
She’s a poet that celebrates imagination and the world’s variousness and quietly asks her readers and listeners to do the same... A gentle, witty, and captivating collection."
" - Books for Keeps (5 star review)
