Children's, Teenage & Young Adult Poetry
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The World's Greatest Space Cadet
Only 2 left!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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If I Were the Moon
Only 2 left!If I were the moon / I'd shine down my light / Right into your bedroom / To warm up the night. A timeless bedtime book that "beautifully captures t...
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Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Only 4 left!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
Only 5 left!***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
Only 13 left!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
Only 9 left!*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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Our Food : A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems
Only 2 left!Find Our Food : A Healthy Serving of Science and Poems from publishers Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. at Books2Door!
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A First Book of Animals
Only 11 left!A dazzling collection of poems by Nicola Davies, featuring over fifty different kinds of animals - beautifully illustrated by Petr Horacek. Nicol...
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The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
in stockHo-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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Little Miss Muffet Flip-Side Rhymes
Only 2 left!Poor Little Miss Muffett was scared away, but what if the spider told the rhyme? Nursery rhymes bring Common Core standards to the youngest readers...
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Bright Bursts of Colour
in stock'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
Only 4 left!'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
Only 3 left!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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Life Doesn't Frighten Me (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition)
in stockShadows 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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Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots
Only 14 left!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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When We Were Very Young
Only 9 left!They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - Christopher Robin went down with Alice.' Curl up with A. A. Milne's classic book of poetry f...
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The Owl and the Pussy-cat
in stockEdward Lear's classic poem, The Owl and the Pussy-cat, beautifully illustrated by Charlotte Voake and introduced with a foreword by Julia Donaldson...
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The Great Big Irish Annual 2021
Only 3 left!A look back at the big events of the very strange year that was 2020 - from coronavirus to viral jokes and home-schooling fun. How will you do in...
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Jabberwocky
in stock'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mom raths outgrabe. Lewis Carroll's most...
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New and Collected Poems for Children
Only 3 left!'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.' (Guardian) This stellar edition of her poems brings together work from her four a...
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Run, Rebel
in stockPraise for Run, Rebel - a Guardian best book of 2020: A tightly crafted series of punchy, often heartbreaking narrative poems . . . Mann's brillian...
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Hot Like Fire Bind-up
Only 6 left!When de July sun hot like fire, Den I have jus' one desire, To run down to de shop an' buy a Kisko pop. The World Is Sweet and Hot Like Fire publi...
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A First Poetry Book (Macmillan Poetry)
in stockThe first in a brand-new series of poetry books created with KS1 teachers and students in mind, but packed with glorious poems that will appeal to ...
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Swing
Only 4 left!In this YA novel in verse from bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo), which Kirkus called "lively, moving, and heartfelt" i...
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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.