A delightful collection of poems about home, friends and, above all, about what life is like at primary school. With lively and humourous illustrations by Ros Asquith.

Described by our selectors as ‘a really pleasing book with a wide range of subjects and poems full of close observation’, this collection includes a frustrated snail who meets with an unfortunate end and contains helpful advice for children everywhere such as, ‘Don’t squash peas on your knees, Don’t grate carrot on a parrot.’

With the tagline ‘Poems that make a splash!’, this collection includes fantastic, hilarious and thoughtful poems from some of the best poets writing for children in the UK today.

This collection gathers together previously published verses written in the 1980s and 90s alongside a selection of new poems written especially for this book. A delightful and inspiring collection.

In this collection, one of the UK’s favourite children’s poets takes a look at the weird and wonderful world of animals, some eminently recognisable but others – Chocolate Ants, a Lovesick Snail and a Spider the Size of Godzilla – rather less so.

A brilliant collection of funny, silly, sad and unusual poems by an expert rhymer.

There are poems here which will strike a chord with every schoolchild, from a poem by Allan Ahlberg about the disappointment of always being picked last for the school team, through the horrors of school dinners, to forging your own sick note.