Write Your Own Haiku by Patricia Donegan
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In this fun Japanese children's book, kids will learn to create haiku--elegant and simplistic Japanese poems. Haiku is a uniquely Japanese form of poetry that uses vivid words and imagery to capture a feeling or a moment in just three lines. Short but powerful, haiku poems are easy and fun to write ...Show more
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: Children's - Kindergarten, Age 5-6
How do you like to go up in a swing,Up in the air so blue?Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thingEver a child can do!aRobert Louis Stevenson's rhymes have charmed children and adults alike since 1885, when they first appeared to a delighted public. Stevenson's joyful exploration of the world speaks dire ...Show more
A Song about Myself: A Poem by John Keats by Chris Raschka
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka brings John Keats s words to whimsical life in the poet s only work written for children. He was a naughty boy, A naughty boy was he, He would not stop at home, He could not quiet be. English poet John Keats is remembered for his great odes and sonnets making this lighth ...Show more
Nonstop Nonsense (HB) by Margaret Mahy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A joyful jumble of poems, songs and stories. The full colour gift edition of this wonderfully witty and delightfully silly collection of stories and rhyming nonsense from all-star author and artist team, Margaret Mahy and Quentin Blake. Poems, prose and rhymes from bestselling author Margaret Mahy, and ...Show more
A Rocketful of Space Poems by John Foster
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Top poets across the English-speaking world present: A Rocketful of Space Poems. Fly into space, drive to the moon, meet an asteroid dog and a flurb blurp, and then play intergalactic Squibble-Ball. There are wizards and witches in space, as well as Peter Pluto' s fast-food superstore - and the worst mo ...Show more
Wonderland: Alice in Poetry by Michaela Morgan
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Lewis Carroll's Alice has been enchanting children for 150 years. Curious Alice, the bossy White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter are among the best-loved, most iconic literary creations of all time. In Alice Poetry, we celebrate the poems of Lewis Carroll, from the sublime to ...Show more
It's Not My Fault! by Roger Stevens
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"It wasn't me-or was it He, My evil, evil, evil twin? I didn't mean to be so mean. There goes my evil twin again." Join poets Roger Stevens and Steven Withrow for this magical mixture of poems. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious there's something here for everyone. Just remember though - whatever happen ...Show more
My Wonderful Nursery Rhyme Collection by Hinkler Books
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Both kids and adults alike will fall in love with the whimsy and spectacular illustrations and designs in My Wonderful Nursury Rhyme Collection. This beautiful book features popular nursery rhyme classics against a visual feast of fun, colourful illustrations created by different talented artists. My Wo ...Show more
Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk by Jane Sutcliffe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will's words keep popping up all over the place! What's an author to do? After all, Will is responsible for such familiar phrases as "what's done is done" and "too muc ...Show more
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot; Rebecca Ashdown (Illustrator)
$12.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Children's Classics Ser.
Eliot's famous collection of nonsense verse about cats-the inspiration for the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats.
Our Home is Dirt by Sea by Walker Books Australia Pty, Limited
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: 8+
Dianne Bates has complied a fabulous collection of poetry written by over thirty different Australian poets for Australian children. Topics include school, family, special events like birthdays and Christmas, animals and sports.
The Prehistoric Masters of Literature : Discover Literary History with a Prehistoric Twist! (Jurassic Classics) by Saskia Lacey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Jurassic Classics | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
Discover literary history with a prehistoric twist! Deep underground, a mysterious cave of stone tablets has been discovered, and researchers are working frantically to translate a treasury of prehistoric literature. In this collection, you'll learn what made the greatest dinosaur writers so very great ...Show more