Join in the colour and excitement of festivals with these poems. Beginning with the dancing Chinese dragon welcoming in the New Year, help celebrate different traditional and religious festivals - each with their own costumes, feasts and songs. This book takes an irreverent and humorous look at festivals through poetry which includes a range of poems that are old and new, familiar and fantastical, poems containing patterned and predictable language and ones with more challenging vocabulary.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Hodder Wayland Poetry, Wayland Poetry Collections .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2000 by Hachette Children's Group .

Joan Poulson is an experienced playwright, poet and anthologist. She compiled 'Pictures in my Mind' for the Hodder Wayland poetry list, 'Celebration' for UNICEF and 'Girls are like Diamonds' for OUP. Kelly Waldek did a graphic design degree (specialising in illustration) and has illustrated many works for Hodder Wayland, Belitha, Brilliant Books and BBC Education. Andrew Fusek Peters is Britain's tallest poet. He travels the country visiting schools with his weird and wonderful poems, plays and digeridu and juggles a bit. Andrew lives in an old chapel in Shropshire with his wife and young daughter.