Poetry

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 life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with all the family. With new poems from Raymond Antrobus,...

Science tells us that babies develop best when they are spoken to, sung to and read to. Introduce your baby to a world of words and pictures with these 30 classic nursery rhymes from the Mother Goose collection and beyond paired with images of Chloe...

To walk toTo talk toTo cry and rely on,People will always need people . . .From the creators of Nature Trail comes an uplifting picture book about the power of people, and the importance of connecting with others. This timely poem reminds us all to be...

Allah Made Everything, the song book, is based on the lyrics of the well-loved children's song by renowned singer and songwriter Zain Bhikha. The song was first released in 2015, and together with the hit video, has become one of the most popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards (Picture Book) 2021 and Schneider Family Book Award (Children's) 2021. Commended for Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook...

A beautiful paperback edition of Charles Causley's Collected Poems for Children with a foreword by poet Roger McGough and illustrated with line art by John Lawrence. This Macmillan Classics edition is a special gift to treasure, and the perfect start to...

The hilariously anarchic and bestselling picture book about a dragon who has lost his flame - but may just find fire elsewhere . . . Perfect for fans of The Dinosaur That Pooped series. Sir Wayne's dragon has lost his flame. Are his teeth TOO clean?...

Follow Bear as he sets off on an exciting Easter egg hunt adventure with his friends in the forest. Can you help them? Set to rollicking rhyming text with 100 eggs to find and count. The perfect Easter gift - full of the joys of Spring!Join Bear and...

Snuggle up with this sweet selection of rhymes to share with your little one. Packed with gorgeous illustrations throughout, and fuzzy flocking on the cover, this sturdy board book is the perfect gift for first birthdays!Book InformationISBN...

Phizz-whizzing new edition for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! I bet you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much more gory. From Cinderella and Goldilocks to Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs, wicked beasts,...

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.Reflecting the changing seasons and linking to events on key dates - funny for April Fool's Day, festive for...

Discover a world of adventure with this fun selection of rhymes. Packed with gorgeous illustrations throughout, and fuzzy flocking on the cover, this sturdy board book is the perfect gift for second birthdays!Book InformationISBN 9781848699311Author...

Each Peach Pear Plum is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next...

In this fantastic collection, Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho shows us that poems are made to read OUT LOUD! In this wittily illustrated anthology of poems, designed to be read aloud, twenty poems arm children with techniques for lifting...

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'The teacher tapped his forehead. At last! the children cried!The answer, Sir's, in your head...What a perfect place to hide'Jump into Allan Ahlberg's playful world of poetry, perfect for primary school children.Shed a tear for The Boy Without A Name,...

The Rhyming Rabbit loves to make up entertaining poems, inspired by everything he sees, but the other rabbits don't appreciate his talent for rhyme. Sad and lonely, the Rhyming Rabbit sets off one starry night all on his own - will he ever find someone...

A Poem For Every Night of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 poems compiled by Allie Esiri, one to share for every night of the year.The poems - together with introductory paragraphs - have a link to the date on which they appear. Shakespeare...

Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah!A reissue of the wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for young people, touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on...

_______________ THE BUNNY ADVENTURES: OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD! DISCOVER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES _______________ We're going on a treasure hunt. Yo! Ho! Ho! Help us find the golden coins ... Arrrrr! Off we go! Yo! Ho! Ho! Join...

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 bedtime, this quirky collection of nonsense poetry written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Quentin Blake is...

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VOTED BEST LAUGH OUT LOUD PICTURE BOOK AWARD IN THE LOLLIES 2022 AND OVER 101,000 COPIES SOLD!The hilariously silly bestselling picture book, featuring 101 different animal bums! Bums in the jungle, bums in the town. Bums in the treetops, hanging upside...

Within the pages of Allie Esiri's gorgeous poetry collection, A Poem for Every Spring Day, you will find verse that will transport you to vivid spring-time scenes, taking you from the first sighting of blossoms to Easter.The poems are selected from Allie...

We're going on a lion hunt. We're going to catch a big one.We're not scared.In David Axtell's beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's poem, two sisters are out looking for a lion - a lion that lives on the African savanna. The girls...

Shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Awards - the UK's only prize for funny children's books A brilliant collection of poems by an exciting young poet, this book is perfect, whether you like poetry or not! 'When you read this book, the windows will...

A joy to read with small children - Independent An uplifting celebration of nature and the wonder of the world around us by legendary poet and performer Benjamin Zephaniah, one of The Times' top 50 British post-war writers.At the bottom of my garden,...

A moving, lyrical picture book about a shy child unlocking the power of their own voice through poetry, with the helping hand of an extra special teacher, written by multi-award winning poet and Waterstones Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho. From the...

A stunning new edition of T. S. Eliot's beloved cat poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containing beautiful original colour illustrations by Axel Scheffler.Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.Meet magical Mr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJOSEPH COELHO is the Waterstones Children's Laureate 2022-2024. In 2019 he won the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award for If All the World Were which...

Fast cars, slow cars, ready steady go cars . . . which do you like best? Follow fifty colourful cars as they race along the road - up, down, around and back again! Can you find your favourite?Full of spotting and counting fun, with different cars to...

Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes, action rhymes, noisy rhymes and more thoughtful pieces too.If tigerlilies and dandelions growled,And cowslips mooed, and dogroses howled,And...

A perfect introduction to poetry for young children. A First Poetry Book is packed with fabulous poems, created to enjoy in school and at home.From pets to pirates, seasons to space, and mermaids to minibeasts - this topic-based poetry collection, edited...

A laugh-out-loud, read-aloud picture-book guide to the wildest and wackiest unicorns you can imagine, from the author of the Oi Frog and Friends series, Kes Gray, and illustrator of The Dinosaur that Pooped series, Garry Parsons.Dive into this...

Book Band: Dark Red (ideal for ages 10+) _______________ A standout new collection of contemporary poems from prize-winning poet Matt Goodfellow, author of Bright Bursts of Colour. Ideal for children aged 10+ Perfectly reflecting the...

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 Children's Illustrated Book of the Year 2019, and described by Julia Donaldson as "An absolutely beautiful...

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A hilariously silly rhyming picture book, featuring 101 super spooky Halloween bums! From the creators of 101 Christmas Bums and 101 Bums - winner of the Best Laugh Out Loud Picture Book at the Lollies 2022.Spooky bumHooty bumHairy bumScary bum!Find...

From National Poetry Day Ambassadors Liz Brownlee, Matt Goodfellow and Roger Stevens comes an incredible anthology of poetry identifying ways we can Be the Change. These positive and upbeat poems explore sustainability and the positive efforts being made...

The wonderful Roger McGough has drawn together a stunning collection of poems inspired by the five senses. Gems from the very best classic and contemporary poets such as Carol Ann Duffy, Ian McMillan, John Hegley, William Wordsworth, Vernon Scannell and...