August 2013, Frances Lincoln, 96 pages, Paperback, Review copy
Summary from Frances Lincoln
The dragon with a big nose
and twelve toes
on each foot,
eats flies
and mince pies
and sometimes,
when he’s very bad,
whole towns
upside down…
and twelve toes
on each foot,
eats flies
and mince pies
and sometimes,
when he’s very bad,
whole towns
upside down…
Read
about the dragon with the big nose, the gutter creature who rustles
litter, and the dustcart dragon with his raging, rusty belly; watch the
train rattling by, clackety-clack, clickety-click. Then find out if the
new baby is magic, and whether Uncle Clem really had a blue mouse. But
DON’T turn your grandmother into a frog!
Nayuleska's thoughts
I had to read this book in stages as I'm
still not a major fan of poetry. All sorts of topics are covered: life in the
city, pets, night time, imagination, weather,babies, electrical items,
plumbers, transport and seasons. I particularly liked the poem about trains as
the train carriages were pictures of real train tickets; the first poem talks
about how much there is to read in the world and that reading is amazing; I was
intrigued by the blue mouse; the layout of the crane poem was fun; the concept
of electricity being invisible fire was clever; I loved the poems about rain
because the style of the rain cloud and umbrella are like the ones I doodle; I
liked how sometimes poems were linked to each other - there is definitely a
poem for everyone!
Suggested read
For more poetry check out Here Come the Creatures by Wes Magee (Children's, Non-fiction, 9/10E)
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