Publisher - Macmillan Children's Books
Author - Paul Cookson
Binding - Paperback
Pages - 576
Size - 27.6cm x 22cm
 

Product weight 500g



 

The Works really does contain every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader.

Its got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse and performance poetry and that's just for starters.

It features poems from the very best classic and modern poets for example

William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W H Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T S Eliot and William Shakespeare to name but a few

A book packed with gems for dipping into time and time again