Winner of the CLPE Award for Children's Poetry 2020.


This dazzling poetry collection bubbles with excitement and creativity, capturing the sheer joy of the natural world. Discover parades of beast-doodles, preposterous penguins, talking blossoms, playful birds, humble fleas and a host of other exotic and everyday creatures who jump off the page and into our hearts.

Thought-provoking, delightfully original and beautifully illustrated, Cherry Moon will encourage children of every age to explore the power, enchantment and wonderfulness of poetry and nature.

100 CLiPPA Award-winning nature poems to inspire, delight and enthral you! (Includes activity notes to inspire young poets, written by experts at the CLPE.)

About the Author

Zaro Weil (Author)
Zaro Weil lives in southern France with her husband, two sheepdogs, alongside a host of birds, insects, badgers, wild boars, crickets, donkeys, goats, hares and loads more.
She has been a lot of things - dancer, theatre director, actress, poet, playwright, educator, quilt collector, historian, author and publisher. Her poetry for children has appeared in many anthologies. Zaro's Cherry Moon won the CLiPPA Award for outstanding children's poetry in 2020.

Junli Song (Illustrator)
Junli Song studied economics and international development at the University of Chicago, USA, and then at the University of Oxford, UK, before radically changing course to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. On completion in 2018 she won a fellowship at Spudnik Press, a printmaking collective in her home town of Chicago, and she is currently studying for a Masters in Fine Art.

Awards
Winner of CLPE Award for Children's Poetry 2020 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781803380841
Author Zaro Weil
Format Paperback
Page Count 188
Imprint Welbeck Children's Books
Publisher Hachette Children's Group
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 174mm * 18mm