The poems in Bookside Down are written about and for 21st Century children, who are into their friends, the TV, Wiis, DS's, computers, collectibles and things that make them laugh. They deal with important matters such as difficult schoolmates, daft parents, impossible siblings, the last days of the dinosaurs and the death of planet earth. In this book you will find rhyming poems, non-rhyming poems, poems that are conversations and poems that tell stories. You could read them to yourself, read them aloud, or even use them as patterns to write your own poems.

This book was recognised by the Clpe Poetry Award.

This book is part of a book series called Childrens Poetry Library .

There are 80 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2013 by Salt Publishing .

Joanne Limburg published her first poetry collection, Femenismo, in 2000. Since then she has published one more full collection, one pamphlet and a prose memoir, The Woman Who Thought Too Much. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and son, who told her it was high time she wrote some poetry for him.