Imagine a Garden: Stories of Courage Changing the World by Rina Singh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
Age range 6 to 10Illustrated with stunning cut paper art, these seven poetic vignettes capture true stories of courage, hope, and resilience from around the world.In Imagine A Garden, award-winning children's author Rina Singh shares seven real-life stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things ...Show more
In a Time of Distance And Other Poems by Alexander McCall Smith; Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
'In a Time of Distance', the poem from which the collection take its title, was written at the start of the global pandemic which struck at the start of 2020, here the author reminds us of what is important in life and to focus on love, friendship and family. And it is this approach to life that makes t ...Show more
It's the Sound of the Thing : 100 new poems for young people by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$22.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
It’s the Sound of the Thing is an exuberant and evocative collection of poetry for young people from Maxine Beneba Clarke, one of Australia’s most innovative and celebrated poets. This extraordinary collection celebrates the joy of language and features enticing and relatable poems about everyday life ...Show more
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Sara Jane Boyers
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Category: Children's Poetry
Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn't frighten me at all Maya Angelou's brave, defiant poem celebrates the courage within each of us, young and old. From the scary thought of panthers in the park to the unsettling scene of a new classroom, fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by ...Show more
Look We Have Coming to Dover! by Daljit Nagra
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stor ...Show more
Love Poems for People with Children by John Kenney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
In the spirit of his wildly popular New Yorker pieces and the New York Times bestseller Love Poems for Married People, Thurber Prize-winning author Kenney presents a hilarious new collection of poetry for people with children.
Midnight Feasts: Tasty Poems Collected by A. F. Harrold by A. F. Harrold
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
One thing that unites us all across time, nations and peoples is food. From chocolate, rice pudding and sandwiches to breakfast in bed, banana phones and the fruit of a mythical jelabi tree, A.F. Harrold has brought together a beautiful and diverse collection of poems on the topic of food. Beautifully i ...Show more
Mother Earth: Poems To Celebrate the Wonder of Nature by Libby Hathorn
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Category: Children's Poetry
Let's dream of what we can become, Mother Earth, I am your son. Food and shelter, climate, water, Mother Earth, I am your daughter. Mother Earth is a warm, funny, beautiful collection of nature poems. Written with great sensitivity by multi-award-winning poet and author Libby Hathorn and with superb il ...Show more
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott
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Category: Children's Poetry
Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability, Shapcott ...Show more
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
$49.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcoholCharles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed dirty old man, Bu ...Show more
Out of This World: Star-Studded Haiku by Sally M. Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Children's Poetry
This companion to Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up soars into space with a perfect fusion of poetry and science, accompanied by breathtaking illustrations. one minuscule speckgrows into the universea mind-boggling birth This stunning meeting of poetic form and luminous artwork transports us out ...Show more