In his fantastic first collection Roger Stevens covers it all: space, football, pets, parents, school, love, death and stick insects! His poems are a wonderful mix of laughter and sadness. Packed with useful information, they will stay with you long after you have put this book down!

Poem for Sale

Poem for sale

(one careful owner)

With simile,

(As lucky as a dime)

Two exquisite

And erudite adjectives

And one rhyme

Going

For a song.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pan Macmillan .

Jane Eccles loves drawing and works in a tiny room in her house in Hampshire, where she lives with her husband and son and small grey cat. Brian Moses and Roger Stevens have also collaborated on What Are We Fighting For? New Poems about War and 100% Unofficial! Olympic Poems for Macmillan Children's Books.