This is a wonderful collection of over fifty poems that don't rhyme - from Zephaniah to Agard. This anthology collects together some of the very best children's poets ever, with some of their very best non-rhyming poetry. From known to unknown, from classic to contemporary, from funny to serious and back again, this is a definitive, classy and stylish book ... a little gem.

 

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Walker Books Ltd .

James Carter lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters. His poems have been published in dozens of anthologies and in his first collection Stars, Cars and Electric Guitars. He spends a lot of his time visiting schools where he perform his poems and plays his guitar. Graham Denton is a widely published poet and anthologist. Publications of poems selected by Graham include My Cat is in Love with the Goldfish for A & C Black, as well as Silly Superstitions (Macmillan), Wild! Rhymes that Roar (Macmillan) and the CLPE-short-listed Giving You the Willies (Delightfully Devilish Verse and Much Much Worse). Salvatore Rubbino is a rising new talent in the world of illustration. He was recently shortlisted for the Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Awards for some of the brilliant illustrations in this new picture book.