There are 111 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Pan Macmillan .

Roger McGough is a renowned performance poet, with many collections of well-loved children's poetry to his name. Wendy Cope is best known for her award-winning contemporary poetry for adults, but has also written extensively for children. John Agard is a prolific playwright, poet and author for children. In 2012 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and has won a raft of other awards. Brian Patten was born in Liverpool. His poetry for adults has been translated into many languages, and his collections include Collected Love Poems, Armada, and, from Penguin, Adrian Mitchell was one of the UK's leading poets and playwrights for adults and children. He performed his poems all over the world, in schools, libraries, factories, prisons, hospitals, theatres, playgrounds . Colin McNaughton was born in Northunberland and had his first book published when he was still at college. He his now one of Britain's most highly acclaimed authors and illustrators.