From metal-munching dragons, secret-whispering statues and flame-like ghost horses, to the sadness of captive animals and doomed heroic deeds, the poems in this collection blend quirky humour with rhythm and rhyme, imagination with real experience.

 

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Hachette Children's Group .

William Wise is the author of best-selling picture book Ten Sly Piranhas as well as other novels and non-fiction for adults and young adults. He lives in the USA. Patrick Benson is the internationally recognised illustrator of bestseller Owl Babies, Christopher Award-winner Mole and Baby Bird and The Minpins. Patrick lives in the Borders of Scotland. Russell Hoban was born in Pennsylvania in 1925. He went to art school before serving in World War II and was a freelance illustrator eight years before taking up full-time writing. His many works of fiction and poetry for both adults and children have won him many awards. The Mouse and his Child has been hailed as one of the great children's classics of the twentieth century.