A very funny anthology of poems about what parents get up to when you're not looking. Do they have secret lives and, if so, what exactly do they do? from My Step-dad is an Alien by Roger Stevens I'd suspected for some time. I finally got up the courage to talk to him about it. I think you're an alien, I told him. Nonsense, he said. Why do you think that? Well, you've got one green eye and one blue one. That doesn't make me an alien, he replied. You can make the toaster work without turning it on That's just a trick, he smiled.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Pan Macmillan .

David Harmer is the headteacher of a primary school in Doncaster. He has been writing and editing books for the past 12 years. He is also a great performance poet and works with fellow Macmillan poet Paul Cookson in the popular Spill the Beans poetry duo.