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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0995647895
|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs
|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark.
''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.}}{{Frontpage|classisbn=Esiri Poem|title=A Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri|rating=4|genre=Anthologies|summary=For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-"wikitable" cellpaddinghundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly.}}{{Frontpage|isbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->Stevenson_Garden|title=A Child's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=2|genre=Anthologies|summary=Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.}}
<!-- Donaldson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=Donaldson_Treasury| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A Treasury of Songs[[image:Donaldson_Treasury.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509846131?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509846131]] Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"4|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary===[[A Treasury of Songs by Some people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler]]=== [[image:4starone of the most successful children's authors, but she can also carry a tune.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes For the past few years, she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Some people have all plays them during open readings, or releases them as part of a songbook. For the skillsfirst time, not only is Julia Donaldson A Treasury of Songs brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the most successful childrensongs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Woollard_Kipling|title=Rudyard Kipling's authors, she can also carry a tuneJust So Stories|author=Elli Woollard and Marta Altes|rating=4. For the past few years she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs 5|genre=Children's Rhymes and plays them during open readingsVerse|summary=Now, or releases them as part of whatever our age, there are probably a song bookfew books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. For They have stood the first test of time A Treasury to such an extent that they have become a piece of Songs brings together several our culture common to so many of her books in one omnibus us, and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing are known throughout the songsworld. [[A Treasury One of Songs them is by Julia Donaldson Rudyard Kipling, who brought a child's sense of wonder and Axel Scheffler|Full Review]] <!his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations to play in a dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he got to convey how the rhino skin is so ill-- Stevenson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stevenson_Gardenfitting and rumpled, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humans, and how the elephant got such a thing as his trunk.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910959103/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagIn doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a book-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson]]=== [[image:2starlength collection – and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AnthologiesJust in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (and it won't be long, trust me), you can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptation.}}{{Frontpage|Anthologies]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verseisbn=Harris_Rhyming|Childrentitle=I's Rhymes and Verse]]m Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups|author=Chris Harris and Lane SmithRobert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote |rating=4.5|genre=Children''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll s Rhymes and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself Verse|summary=In the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to representations knock together a dozen verses and get an audience of the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write they call themselves published authors. You get a similar thing at times with poetryfor the young – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and people compile their best arrays of very few words in between two covers and bingo, they have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. [[A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson|Full Review]] <!-- Woollard -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Woollard_Kipling.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509814744/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories by Elli Woollard That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of wit and Marta Altes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:rhyme. And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone's first book of poetry.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Frontpage|isbn=Goss_600|title=Doctor Who:CategoryNow We Are Six Hundred:Children's Rhymes and A Collection of Time Lord Verse|Children(Dr Who)|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Now|summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, whatever our age, there are probably were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few books that we have all encountered at some point in our childhoods. They have stood the test novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of time to such an extent verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that they have become a piece of our culture common to so many some of us, his friends and are known throughout the worldenemies. One of them is by Rudyard KiplingAs luck would have it, who brought a child's sense of wonder and he has space in his own Victorian absurdist set of explanations TARDIS to play stock up in a dozen examples of warm whimsy. In shrugging off evolution he got advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to convey how the rhino skin is so illhis local Earth-fitting based book emporium and rumpledget himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, how the whale learnt he cannot eat humanswith a shorter lifespan, and how thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the elephant got such a thing as his trunk. same.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0956503527|title=There's A Lion In doing so he entertained his young daughter, not knowing she would die as a child long before he produced a bookMy Bathroom|author=Giles Paley-length collection – Phillips|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and way before he saw something into print that has lasted ever since. Just Verse|summary=This collection of nonsense poetry takes in case these tales are not for your young audience yet (all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and it wonfrom failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It't be longs all very silly, trust me)all very nonsensical, you can start them in early with this lovely and bright adaptationgood fun. [[Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories by Elli Woollard A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Marta Altes|Full Review]Lymphoma Research].}}<!-- Harris -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=0192731831| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"See You Later, Escalator|author=John Foster[[image:Harris_Rhyming|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|linksummary=https://wwwAlways a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509881042?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509881042]] }}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1849392021|==title=[[I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris and Lane Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] In the sniffy world of literary poetry, people seem to be able to knock together a dozen verses and get an audience of twenty people to buy a pamphlet, and they call themselves published authors. You get a similar thing at times with poetry for the young – most poetry books, after all, have a lot more blank space in them than routine volumes, and people compile their best arrays of very few words in between two covers and bingo, they have a book, and twenty minutes later bingo, you've read it. That's most certainly not the case here, for this is crammed with what has to be considered a major outpouring of wit and rhyme. And whatever age you are, and whatever experience with verse you may have, this will not seem to you like someone's first book of poetry. [[I'm Just No Good At Rhyming: And Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups by Chris Harris and Lane Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Esiri -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Esiri Poem.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509860541/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly. [[A Poem for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Foster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0192731831.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192731831/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[See You Later, Escalator by John Foster]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten. [[See You Later, Escalator by John Foster|Full Review]] <!-- Paley-Phillips -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0956503527.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0956503527/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[There's A Lion In My Bathroom by Giles Paley-Phillips]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research]. [[There's A Lion In My Bathroom by Giles Paley-Phillips|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1849392021.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1849392021/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[There's An Alien In The Classroom by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]] ''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of school-based poems, and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, to acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to the dentist, there's something to appeal to every child. [[There's An Alien In The Classroom by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] |} {{newreview
|author=Gervase Phinn
|title=There's An Alien In The Classroom
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=''There's An Alien In The Classroom'' is a collection of school-based poems, and poems aimed at school-age children. Taking in all forms, from limericks and cautionary verse, to acrostics and haiku, it offers a broad overview of poetry. With themes including school, families, seasons, Bonfire Night, Nativity plays and going to the dentist, there's something to appeal to every child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392021</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1408304589|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby
|author=Penny Dann
|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0141324511|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things
|author=Michael Rosen
|title=Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=When he was little, Michael Rosen's dad remembered all the bad things he'd done and reminded him of them when appropriate, so Michael imagined he'd written them all down in a Big Book of Bad Things. Here he presents the eponymous poem, as well as many many other tales of childhood, from the horrors of being a second late to school, to making a raft, to going to a café. Some bad, some sad, some quirky, some funny, some touching, some light-hearted, all wonderful.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324511</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=033051086X|title=The World At Our Feet
|author=Paul Cookson
|title=The World At Our Feet
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=With the World Cup just around the corner, football is on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at the [http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum], has compiled the best football poems for young children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033051086X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0192729934|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|author=John Foster
|title=Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Subtitled ''rhymes for the very young'', you know what you're getting with ''Whizz Bang Orang-Utan''. It's a poetry anthology, with sweet poems about kids, what they get up to, and of course whizzing and banging orang-utans.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729934</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0230745865|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)
|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|rating=4
|genre=TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Children's Trust
|title=The Walrus and the Carpenter and Other Favourite Poems
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=Celebrities, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Grady, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kelly, have chosen their favourite poems for this anthology. All proceeds from the book go to [http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charity, who help disabled children, and I urge you all to buy a copy of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' to support them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen|title=A To Z - The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Michael Rosen has picked the best modern children's poetry, from John Agard through Move on to Benjamin Zephaniah. It stemmed from Rosen performing in schools and libraries with many of the poets, and as children's poetry anthologies go, it's amongst the very best.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilaire Belloc and Mini Grey|title=Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse and Was Eaten By A Lion|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Hilaire Belloc's ''Cautionary Tales For Children'' are rightly lauded as classics. Mini Grey (also [[Traction Man Meets Turbo Dog by Mini Grey|rightly laudedNewest Confident Readers Reviews]]), has illustrated one of these fine tales, so that a new generation of children can discover just what happens when you run away from your nurse and a lion eats you. Pay attention kids.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083678</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mandy Stanley |title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and Other Nursery Favourites|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Every small child should have book (or a few) containing traditional nursery rhymes, and every so often newly illustrated collections are published. ''Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star'' is part of such a new series called ''Time for a Rhyme'', published by Harper Collins and illustrated by Mandy Stanley known for her [[The Fairy Ball (Lettice) by Mandy Stanley|Lettice]] stories and other picture books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315635</amazonuk>}}