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`deserves to be read out loud to savour the sounds and silliness! Quentin Blake's zany illustrations only add to the fun'
--Waterstone's Guide to Kid's Books, February 2009
--Waterstone's Guide to Kid's Books, February 2009
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"You Can't Catch Me" and "You Can't Put Mustard in the Custard" were first published twenty-five years ago and were groundbreaking in that they were full-colour illustrated new poems for children. "You Can't Catch Me" won the Signal Poetry Award in 1982. Both books went on to be bestsellers and both poet and artist are stellar names in the world of children's books. The book includes an introduction by Michael Rosen and an audio CD of the book, with all the poems also read by Michael. Michael's brilliantly conversational poetry is fantastically matched by Quentin Blake's loopy yet perfectly detailed art. It is a partnership that Bloomsbury is proud to be making newly available.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After buying this book for friends' kids aged 3 and 4, I bought this for some older kids (age 7 and 9). But then I thought that they were too old for it. I shouldn't have worried.
The kids loved it and and competed to see how many poems they could recite on their own. And by the end of the week we were ALL saying "Don't! Don't! Don't do that!"
Brilliant!
The kids loved it and and competed to see how many poems they could recite on their own. And by the end of the week we were ALL saying "Don't! Don't! Don't do that!"
Brilliant!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is my 3yr old son's favourite book. The child rhyming is brilliant. He reads them to us now !This has been the best book we have bought, education wise. Since reading this to him he constantly says a word and then finds a word to rhyme with it. Full of child like humour that keeps him giggling.
Highly Recommended.
Highly Recommended.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Michael Rosen is simply a genius. How can he access so perfectly what it feels like to be a child? If ever I feel that poets are a bit self-important, all I have to do is read something by Michael Rosen and my wonder at a man's creativity returns. I took it out of the library, stuck on the CD while the kids read along, and soon they were all able to recite it pretty much verbatim - including the English accent of the reader (that would be Michael)! (We're Irish!) We had to give it back to the library eventually but I am buying a copy for them. "Keith's Cupboard" - sometimes I do the voice of Keith's Mum for their amusement (it's the way she says "Keith! Keith!" that we love); then there's the one about the fly in the digital watch, and of course the meditative one about sucking on the sponge in the bathroom whilst daydreaming...And that's all before we've mentioned Quentin Blake's perfect, and perfectly inspired drawings. It's two years now since we borrowed it from the library (don't worry, we gave it back ages ago) and the kids can still recite half of the poems by heart, spontaneously. They are 21, 19 and 17 (joke)- they're now 11, 9 and nearly 7. Buy it.
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Great for young and old
My son loves both the book and cd. Lots of laughs for both of us. I have bought extra copies to give to his friends for birthday presents.
Published 2 months ago by kishky
Brilliant
I bought this when the author Michael Rosen visited my son's school. My two boys are 4 and 5 1/2, and they LOVE his poems, and can both recite three or four of them. Read more
Published 19 months ago by GSF
Had the children in fits of giggles
It took me some time to get around to reading these poems to my children, aged 4, 7 and 9 but when I did it led to one of those wonderful moments to savour for ever with all three... Read more
Published 19 months ago by mimoblade
Hours of pleasure
My 10 year old grandson has Autism and he just loves this book and CD, he has spent many happy hours listening and repeating the poems. very amusing
Published 21 months ago by Mrs Weeks
Childrens entertainment
I bought this for my 4 year old grandson to ammuse him in the car as my three children loved it when they where young and what a brilliant buy you get a lovely book plus an audio... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Ms. G. Nash
Not sure
I'm not sure about this book for the age group it seems to be targeted for.
I bought it for my grandson, a bright and imaginative 5 year old, and luckily I read it... Read more
I bought it for my grandson, a bright and imaginative 5 year old, and luckily I read it... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 2009 by M. A. Dineley
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