Imagine the brilliant colours and smells of fruit in a Caribbean market, the vast variety of tins and jars in a North American supermarket. Imagine how many kinds of street music there are, the different ways children play with swings and kits and boats. Imagine the different seasons. Then imagine things that are the same worldwide - land and trees and creatures being destroyed, wealth and poverty spreading. Imagine believing in good hope, a future when life will be better. This volume contains exciting verse from all over the world by poets such as Benjamin Zephaniah, Grace Nichols, Rabindranath Tagore, Margaret Mahy, Christina Rossetti, John Agard and Robert Louis Stevenson.

 

 

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Includes the work of John Agard, Michael Rosen, Robert Frost, Eleanor Farjeon and many more well-loved writers. The sections are illustrated in full colour by popular illustrators: SPRING by Sheila Moxley; SUMMER by Lydia Monks; AUTUMN by Ruth Rivers, and WINTER by Tom Saeker. Wendy Cooling has been a teacher, Head of Children's Book Foundation and is now well-known as a freelance children's book consultant and anthologist.