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    I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree - A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year: National Trust

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    Winner of the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year 2018, this lavish poetry collection is a perfect present for any age. I Am the Seed That Grew...

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    Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! - An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year : National Trust

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    A glorious and ambitious sequel to I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree - winner of Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year 2018 and Red Magazine's Chi...

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    I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree by Fiona Waters (National Trust) - Ages 2+ - Hardback

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    I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree, named after the first line of Judith Nicholls' poem 'Windsong', is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 natur...

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    Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy 3 Books Collection Set - Poetry - Hardback

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    Title in This Set:1. Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem2. The Wren-Boys3. The King of ChristmasDescription:Wenceslas: A Christmas PoemBeginning with the K...

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    Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! selected by Fiona Waters (National Trust)- Ages 4-11 - Hardback

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    This lavishly illustrated gift book treasury of 366 animal poems - one for every day of the year - ranges from unforgettable classics to contempora...

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    Fiona Waters Poetry Collections 2 Books Set (I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree & Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!) - Ages 4-11 - Hardback

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    Titles In This Set:1. National Trust: I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree2. National Trust: Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!Description:National Trust: I...

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    Out and About: A First Book of Poems by Shirley Hughes

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    A beautiful first collection of poems by two-time Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Shirley Hughes. In this wonderful collection of poems, by best-love...

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    Overheard in a Tower Block: Poems by Joseph Coelho

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    Gazing at the stars from five storeys up,smelling the bins from five storeys below. Overheard arguments,overheard laughter. A disappearing father...

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    A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri

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    A Poem For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share on every day of the year. Reflectin...

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    Poems to Perform: A Classic Collection by Julia Donaldson

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    In Poems to Perform, Julia Donaldson has chosen poems with performance by children in mind, and her notes and ideas on performing them are included...

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    Poems Aloud: An anthology of poems to read out loud Volume 1 by Joseph Coelho

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    In this fantastic collection, Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho shows us that poems are made to read OUT LOUD! In this wittily illustra...

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    Dirty Beasts

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    Dirty Beasts is a collection of hilarious animal rhymes from the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller!Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding. ...

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    Silly Verse for Kids

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    Silly Verse for Kids - a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan!A collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristical...

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    Poetry Pie

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    POETRY PIE is a brilliant collection of poems for children by Roger McGough.There are over 50 poems in this hugely enjoyable poetry collection with...

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    Football 4 Every 1

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    Football 4 Every 1 by Paul Cookson, is a brilliant collection of funny upbeat poems about football - playing it, supporting it, living it, breathin...

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    Shine, Star, Shine! by Dom Conlon

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    Find Shine, Star, Shine! by Dom Conlon from publishers Graffeg Limited at Books2Door! ; 36 pages; Published: 16/11/2021

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    If You Go Down to the Woods Today: More than 100 things to find by Rachel Piercey

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    A Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week My woodland's full of animals,of every different kind. So shall we stay here for a whileand see what w...

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    Stars With Flaming Tails: Poems by Valerie Bloom

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    I travelled once around the worldOn stars with flaming tails,And touched the colours of my dreamsAlong some silver trails. Look out for best frie...

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    Midnight Magic by Michelle Harrison

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    Black cats born at midnightAre different indeedA mischievous, oddAnd peculiar breedIn the middle of winter, three kittens are born in a barn. Two a...

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    Who Makes a Forest? by Sally Nicholls

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    Find out how a forest is made in this beautiful picture book written by Waterstones award-winning Sally Nicholls and illustrated by rising star Car...

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    50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems by Brian Bilston

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    A funny collection of football poems by Brian Bilston, the unofficial Poet Laureate of Twitter. Perfect for football fans of all ages - from the yo...

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    Yapping Away: Poems by Joshua Seigal by Joshua Seigal

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    WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZEJoshua Seigal, winner of the 2020 Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (the only UK prize for funny children's books voted f...

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    'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore

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    The classic Christmas verse in a gorgeous gift book from the highly acclaimed author and illustrator P.J. Lynch. "'Twas the night before Christma...

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    Everyone Sang: A Poem for Every Feeling

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    A magnificent anthology of poems themed around different moods, collected by the bestselling creator of The Poetry Pharmacy and illustrated by Emil...

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    All About Cats: Fantastically Funny Rhymes by Frantz Wittkamp

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    All About Cats is a collection of hilarious rhymes . . . all about cats! These short, funny rhymes are brought to life with illustrations from Axel...

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    The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom by Beach

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    The first in a fabulously funny series about a dragon who has lost his flame - but may just find fire elsewhere . . . Perfect for fans of The DInos...

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    Everything Under the Sun: a curious question for every day of the year by Molly Oldfield

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    An absolute delight - David Walliams"One of the best kids books I have ever had the pleasure of reading" - Pandora Sykes"Truly ace and answers ever...

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    The Crossing by Manjeet Mann

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    Powerful, compassionate and ultimately hopeful. ObserverWINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2021 and the Sunday Times Children's Book of the ...

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    Midnight Feasts: Tasty poems chosen by A.F. Harrold

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    The perfect Christmas gift for any food or poetry lover, this scrumptious illustrated hardback contains over 50 poems about every type of food imag...

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    The World's Greatest Space Cadet

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    A dreamer?Me? Err, You bet, The world's greatest space cadet!Join poet James Carter on a journey through space and time: meet everyone from a Vikin...

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    Somebody Give This Heart a Pen

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    An amazingly talented spoken word artist MTVFrom acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a powerful first collection of poems exploring issu...

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    The Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II

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    ***As heard on The Jeremy Vine Show******As heard on The Cerys Matthews Show***"Michael Rosen is a master of pace and clarity... Essential reading....

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    Collected Poems for Children: Macmillan Classics Edition

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    A beautiful paperback edition of Charles Causley's Collected Poems for Children with a foreword by Roger McGough and illustrated with line art by J...

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    Everything All at Once

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    *Winner of the 2019 CLiPPA award*An achingly beautiful collection of poems about one week in a secondary school where everything happens all at onc...

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    Poems from a Green and Blue Planet

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    A GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, this stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrates the diversity of li...

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    The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

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    Ho-ho-ho! It's nearly Christmas Eve. Bells are jingling, reindeer are limbering up and Santa's sleigh is being polished - will Santa have everythin...

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    Red, Cherry Red

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    A powerful poetry collection full of the drama, musicality and lyricism that Jackie Kay is famed for. Exploring the themes of identity and age, t...

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    I Don't Like Poetry

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    Shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Awards - the UK's only prize for funny children's books. Packed full of silly, funny, or downright hilarious poe...

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    Welcome to My Crazy Life

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    Packed full of silly, funny, or downright hilarious poems (with some serious ones mixed in), this new collection by Joshua Seigal (winner of the La...

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    Bright Bursts of Colour

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    'Matt Goodfellow is a fresh voice on the children's poetry scene.' (Pie Corbett)What if cats had flavoured fur or if you swallowed the sun? What if...

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    The Night Before Christmas

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    'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house ... For decades families have gathered together to read Clement C. Moore's enchanting h...

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    Dinosaur Poems

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    This Dinosaur themed anthology of poems is written by various authors. The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of ...

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    Snow in the Garden: A First Book of Christmas by Shirley Hughes

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    A classic collection of festive poems, stories and activities by Kate Greenaway-winning author, Shirley Hughes. This beautiful Christmas anthology ...

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    Bananas in My Ears

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    A comic collection of verse from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates. From the chaos of breakfast and to the calm of bedti...

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    Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition)

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    Shadows on the wallNoises down the hallLife doesn't frighten me at all Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us,...

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    How To Write Poems

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    How to Write Poems is packed with exciting activities to get your pen flowing! Make poems out of leaves, carve out a mud poem, go on an outdoors si...

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    Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots

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    A riotous celebration of words - silly words, funny words, words you only use in your own family, new words, old words, and the very best words in ...

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    A Great Big Cuddle : Poems for the Very Young by Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell

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    Two of the biggest names in children's publishing, Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, come together in a new poetry collection. Winner of the 2016 CL...

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Reading to or with children is really important for their intellectual well-being. Children sometimes struggle with longer stories so introducing them to poems and nursery rhymes is a great way to encourage their love of reading early on. Poetry is also said to create pathways in children's brains that listening to other types of languages simply does not. With teens, poetry helps them process and express their conflicting emotions in a more controlled and creative way. 

In fact, exposing them to poems and rhymes can help children develop three really critical pre-reading and communication skills—phonological awareness, rich vocabulary and background knowledge. Not only can poems and rhyming words help a child develop a good vocabulary, it can also help your child develop phonological awareness. Phonological awareness is the ability to consciously tune in to the sounds of spoken language, to understand them and to talk about them. For example, a three-year-old whose phonological awareness is developing might say something like: "Hey, cat-bat: they sound the same!"

Background knowledge on the other hand is considered a strong predictor of how easily your child will learn to read and write. Several studies have confirmed that a child’s awareness and knowledge of their background will strongly impact their social and academic success. Teachers, speech-language therapists and linguists; unanimously agree that it is vital for babies and young children to hear the kind of language used in poems and rhymes. This is because the sometimes unusual words, repetitions and speech patterns contained in poems written for children help enrich your child's intellect.

Here are some poetry books that we think will move your child, stir something within them and whilst at it; also inculcate the love of poetry in their hearts. What Are Little Girls Made of? If you are a parent raising a feminist little girl, then this poetry book by Award-winning author, Jeanne Willis is just what she needs. Think you know your favourite classic nursery rhymes? Read this picture book and think again! In this witty reworking of popular nursery rhymes, Georgie Porgie doesn't dare to make the girls cry, Little Bo-Peep's sheep are all present and correct, thank you, and it's the queen, of course, who fixes Humpty Dumpty. With the combination of Jeanne Willis's brilliantly funny poems and Isabelle Follath’s charming, witty illustrations; these nursery rhymes prove that girls can be the heroes of any story. This remixed nursery rhyme collection is the perfect gift book for any child (or adult!), to read aloud or enjoy alone.

Hot Like Fire Bind-up by Valerie Bloom is a book of beautifully crafted poetry that covers a wide range of subjects from global pollution, maths homework problems to dealing with the death of a beloved pet. Full of sunshine and fire; Bloom’s poetry is fun and energetic with the mixed use of standard English and other dialects; that come together to make delightful poetry for kids.

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