"Second Little Book of Poetry", chosen by John Foster, published in 1999 in Great Britain in paperback (staple-bound), 24pp, ISBN 0199192421.


Condition Notes: New


About this book: Oxford Reading Tree Second Little Book of Poetry is an ideal introduction for 6-7 year olds to a range of poetic styles. It contains: 1. A variety of poems with familiar settings; 2. poems with predictable and patterned rhyming language that makes the poems easy to remember; 3. The poems are by significant children's poets; 4. It contains humorous poems using language play; 5. There are poems with a regular, repetitive structure that can be used as models for children's own writing. Illustrations are by Jessica Thomson; and the poems have been chosen by John Foster. 


POEMS INCLUDED ARE: 

The Crocodile is Coming by June Crebbin

Roger the Dog by Ted Hughes

The Corn Scratch Kwa Kwa Hen and the Fox by Julie Holder

I am the Rain by Grace Nichols

The Rainbow by Iain Crichton-Smith

Magic Horse by John Foster

The Snowman by Gillian Clarke

What is Red? by Mary O'Neill

Happy Birthday Card by Rony Robinson

Ways of the Week by John Kitching

Calender of Clothes by Moira Andrew

Giant Tale by Judith Nicholls

If I Could Only Take Home A Snowflake by John Agard


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