--Anupa Lal Don’t Panic! 100 poems to save your life
Chosen by Fiona Waters
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2003, pp.180, £7.99
Overheard on a Salamander
By Carol Ann Duffy
Young Picador, London, 2003, pp.112, £7.99
Give us a Goal: Football Poems
Chosen by Paul Cookson
Macmillan Children Books, London, 2004, pp.88, £3.99
The Works 3: A Poet a Week
Chosen by Paul Cookson
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2004, pp.540, £5.99
Fairy Powers
By Clare Bevan, Illustratted by Lara James
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2004, pp.88, £3.99
Spectacular Schools
Poems Chosen by Paul Cookson. Illustrated by Yvonne Chambers and Maxwel Dorsey.
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2004, pp.88, £3.99
How to Embarrass Grown-Ups
Poems chosen by Paul Cookson. Illustrated by David Parkins.
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2004, pp.90, £3.99
Sardines and Other Poems
By Stephen Knight
Young Picador, London, 2004, pp.84, £7.99
Only One of Me
Selected Poems by James Berry
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2004, pp.194, £4.99
The Monster that Ate that Universe
By Roger Stevens. Illustrated by Jane Eccles
Macmillan Children’s Books, London, 2004, pp.86, £4.99
A Little Night Music
By Ruskin Bond
Rupa & Co., New Delhi, 2004, pp. 54, Rs. 150.00
Among the few Spectacular Schools that exist for young people is the Fairy Tale Princess School. And here is a part of Wednesday’s timetable for this week:
10:30 a.m. How to Recognise Your Frog Prince
Princesses are forbidden to kiss the study frogs.
Princess Florabelle kissed a frog in last week’s lesson
and not only is she in hospital with salmonella poisoning
but got an extremely ugly princess into the bargain.
11:15 a.m. Programming Your Mobile
An essential art if your father, the King
Stakes you as bait for the local dragon.
A simple press of a button
will contact the knight in shining armour of your choice.
For those unfortunate enough not to have access to any Spectacular Schools, there are still annual holidays to look forward to. And here is a bit of the ‘Best Holiday’ ever:
We had our holiday at home this year
Dad bought two tons of sand
And dumped it in the garden
He hired a huge spotlight
And tied it to the guttering
So it looked like the sun was blazing down
Like in Spain
Then we put on our cosies
And sat in deck chairs
Listening to a tape of ocean waves
It was dead realistic.
What is not so ‘dead realistic’ is an adult like this one who says:
I am on the kids’ side
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