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by Michael Rosen (Editor), Chris Gilvan-Cartwright (Illustrator) "Got one mind for the boss to see, Got another mind for what I know is me ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Kingfisher Books Ltd (30 Jun 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1856972216
  • ISBN-13: 978-1856972215
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 284,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An eclectic mixture of poetry, ballads, limericks, riddles and nonsense verse from all over the world. They range from the famous to the unknown, from the thoughtful to the hilarious, and from poems thousands of years old to some that are new.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable for adults as well as children, 22 Dec 2001
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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.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Four legs good, two legs bad, 4 May 2009
By Caballero del febo (Antony, France) - See all my reviews
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.
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