A wonderful collection of poems for chldren of all ages by award-winning novelist and poet Helen Dunmore. Snollygoster is full of lyrical images - smiles like roses, horses in wardrobes and man-eating puddings, as well as Snollygoster himself. This collection comprises both new poems, and a selection from "Secrets", which won the Signal award.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Scholastic .

Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, poet and children's writer, who will be remembered for the wisdom, lyricism, compassion and immersive beauty of her writing. In her lifetime, she published eight collections of poetry, many novels for both adults and children, and two collections of short stories. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction with her novel A Spell of Winter, her novel The Siege was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Fiction, and her final poetry collection Inside the Wave won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year.