Have you ever formed a secret club with friends? Or witnessed the flight of a cow?
Have you ever heard a duck whistle? You haven’t? Then read this book now.
As always, Steve Turner’s poems present a fresh and quirky view on life. Many of the poems in this collection are about childhood: school and holidays, dreams and monsters, food, friends…
This collection of over seventy poems will entertain and interest children both in the classroom and at home. The themes and ideas are thought-provoking as well as witty and fun, and the entertaining cartoons reflect the mood of the poems.
Steve Turner is the award-winning author of the best-selling poetry collection The Day I Fell Down the Toilet.
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Introduction
Family and Friends
The Best Dad 9
Dad, You’re not Funny 10
Cranky, Scotty, Mooey and Me 12
Sue Was Two 16
Ten Things Mums Never Say 17
When Grandad Comes to Stay 18
Kisses 19
Shopping with Mum 20
Best Friends 22
Fun and Games
The Flying Wheel 23
Pocket Money 24
Mud 26
Digging a Hole 27
Travel Game 28
The Monarch 29
Knocking on Doors 30
Countdown 33
The Fair 34
Tread on a Crack and You Marry a Rat 35
Alphabet 36
You’re It! 38
Roads and Places
Secrets 39
Lovers’ Lane 40
Railway Track 41
Haunted House 42
In Our Garden 44
Jubilee Road 45
Heaven 46
Cathedral 48
Ladies and Gentlemen
The Queen of May 49
Rag and Bone Man 50
Cowboy 52
The Teacher’s Gift 53
Snogging 54
Teddy Boy 55
Stinker 56
Miss Hart 57
Bobby 58
News and Weather
Whether the Weather 59
Christmas 60
New Year’s Resolution 62
It’s Fun to Have a Fever 63
Fire! 64
PC Buttle 66
In My Day 67
Get Off 68
New Shoes 70
December 19th 71
Birth 72
Body and Spirit
Who Am I? 73
The Skull 74
Hair and Teeth and Face and Hands 76
Gingerbread Man 78
Food 79
Elbows 79
With My Hands 80
Ghost Story 82
Ode to a Nose 83
Backwards 84
Animals and Insects
The Spider’s Excuse 85
Miss Muffett 85
Hey Diddle Diddle 86
Hickory Digital Clock 87
Cat 88
Limerick 89
A Dog Called Nothing 90
Thoughts and Dreams
What Did You Want to Be When You
Grew Up? 91
That Little Word 92
The Wheel 93
Why Are You Late for School? 94
I Want To Be 95
The Future 96
Over de auteur
DAVID MOSTYN is a widely published cartoonist and illustrator.
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