Cuckoo Rock overlooks Magical Valley, the potato caves and Cuckootown. It is the most wondrous, magical place. It is where the Singing Nettles are heard by the Yaffling Tree, where the band Jasper, Jade and Jet play at Sparkling Pond and where The Cuckoo Man comes to meet Ivy from Ivybridge, Cool Julie Dooley plus Bobby Bangle and Billy Bling. It is a place where they all gather to dance and sing.

It is also the place where Zenna the Mermaid and the mysterious Dream Gatherer watch the hilarious Splatfish and amazing electric fish light up the glimmering aqua-marine water.

But darkness is on the horizon. Demonica, the evil Queen of the Demons wants to stop all the fun. Demonica - with her vicious cat Woof, her three threatening ghosts and the gloomy giant Ogre Rock - all cast a menacing shadow over the whole of the valley. And they have plans to make things worse.

What can be done to keep the valley good and not let it all go bad?

This book was recognised by the Clpe Poetry Award.

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

There are 96 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2011 by Salt Publishing .

Chris Emery is a director of Salt. He has published three collections of poetry, a writer's guide, an anthology of art and poems, and edited editions of Emily Bronte, Keats and Rossetti. His work has been widely published in magazines and anthologised, most recently in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe). He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing, edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen. He lives in Cromer, North Norfolk, with his wife and children. Phil Bowen was born in Liverpool in 1949 where he taught Drama until 1979. He has worked as a full-time writer, performer and teacher since 1994. Work from his first full collection 'Variety's Hammer' was selected for The Forward Anthology of 1998. His biography of the Mersey Poets 'A Gallery to Play to' has recently been updated and republished by Liverpool University Press and he written four plays for the stage.

This book has the following chapters:

Contents

Acknowledgements

Cuckoo Rock

Magical Valley

Heaven Knows

This is the Way

Fern and Sting

Ways and Ways

Nine Birds

Magpie Finds

The Yaffling Tree

Ticking Sonata

Forces

Ogre Boulder

Nineteen Moonlights

Inside the Sunset

Ogre Rock

Ogre and Under

The Seventh Moonlight

Nearer and Nearer

What the Night Says

Demonica

The Night Soil Men

A Cat Named Woof

Inside Demonica

Who Trashed Me?

Three Ghosts

See a Ghost?

Night Soil Men Again

Playing Stones

Jasper, Jade and Jet

At Sparkling Pond

Electric Fish

Splatfish

Zenna

Morwenna

It's a Toot Toot!

The Cuckoo Man

The Dream Gatherer

Ivy from Ivybridge

The Ballad of Bobby Bangle and Billy Bling

Cool Julie Dooley

The Famous Five

What Bobby Asked Billy

Demonica Hated it All

What Don, Den and Doug Said to Billy and Bobby

Make Me This

What it All Says

The Magic Thread

Happy Valley

As Far As We Could

Good Signs