- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd (28 Mar 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 086272550X
- ISBN-13: 978-0862725501
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 17.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,041,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A compilation of poems, ballads, limericks and nonsense verse which is a follow-up to "The Kingfisher Book of Children's Poetry". Rosen's other poetic works include "Don't Put Mustard on the Custard", "The Hypnotizer", "Mind Your Own Business" and "A Spider Bought a Bicycle".
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I bought this book I intended on using it to share with my primary class. As a trainee teacher it was a recomended poetry book. However, when I bought it I found I enjoyed it myself. Some comment was made that the poems weren't all suitable for children. I don't necessarily agree with that. However, some of the poems are more "sophisticated" than others.
An good, light read.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are plenty of wonderful poems in this book (authors run from Michael Palin to William Wordsworth and anonymous poems from various cultures). But the main factor presiding over choice seems to be politically correct moralization. The book starts with a two-liner called "Slavery", and moves on to denounce the rich, the militaristic, the modern and the white with depressing regularity -- try the selection from Chief Dan George's "My Heart Soars":
"I see my white brothers
Going about blotting nature from his cities" (sic), etc.
"US Flies in Hamburgers" also seems indicative of Michael Rosen's politics. The "Topic List" at the end of the volume lists as many poems about "Pollution" as about "Beauty", more on "Injustice" than "Death" or "Stars, Moon & Sky", etc. You can guess the moral of the four "Hunting" poems.
On the whole, the collection is mainly composed of free verse -- rhyme and meter being mainly the province of limericks, a fair number of mischievous child-oriented lyrics and a handful of folk-songs. This means that much of the "poetry" (a great deal in translation) stands or falls on the merits of its imagery or the moral it is trying to convey. Having bought this for my children as a sampler to read out loud, I found much of the content too demoralizing and too far from recognizable poetic rhythms to pursue it very far. A really joyless collection.
"I see my white brothers
Going about blotting nature from his cities" (sic), etc.
"US Flies in Hamburgers" also seems indicative of Michael Rosen's politics. The "Topic List" at the end of the volume lists as many poems about "Pollution" as about "Beauty", more on "Injustice" than "Death" or "Stars, Moon & Sky", etc. You can guess the moral of the four "Hunting" poems.
On the whole, the collection is mainly composed of free verse -- rhyme and meter being mainly the province of limericks, a fair number of mischievous child-oriented lyrics and a handful of folk-songs. This means that much of the "poetry" (a great deal in translation) stands or falls on the merits of its imagery or the moral it is trying to convey. Having bought this for my children as a sampler to read out loud, I found much of the content too demoralizing and too far from recognizable poetic rhythms to pursue it very far. A really joyless collection.
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Lots of fun......
18 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
These poems are fun to read to your child, or by yourself, as I do -- then send the best ones on via email. There are some you've heard of, and a lot you haven't. I wish there were more books like this. I wish poetry was still valued.
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