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John Foster
ISBN: 9781844712885
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Salt Publishing
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A light-hearted collection of poems that will both entertain and enthral children aged 7-12 with its witty wordplay, nonsense nursery rhymes, fantastic football poems, curious cautionary tales, entertaining epitaphs, puzzling plurals and clever clerihews. A book of versatile verses and poems for children to laugh at, to puzzle over and to ponder.
In the Land of the Flibbertigibbets is a collection of playful poems and versatile verses bound to entertain and capture the imagination of the young reader. From poems about a wizard's dragon and a dinosaurs' health spa, nonsense versions of nursery rhymes and fantastic football results, to a cautionary tale about a boy who is always sticking his tongue out. These new poems for children aged 7 to 12, include wordplay poems about anagrams and homonyms, a word-building poem about how to make a teacher, a chant about onomatopoeia and a poem about peculiar plurals. Haikus and clerihews, epitaphs and epigrams, kennings and lists make up this inventive collection.
| ISBN | 1844712885 | | Pages | 80 | | ISBN13 | 9781844712885
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 120 | | Publisher | Salt Publishing | | Published in | Cambridge | | Imprint | Salt Publishing | | Series title | Children's Poetry Library | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 178 | | Publication date | 15 Jan 2011 | | Width (mm) | 110 | | DEWEY | 821.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 6 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | Academic level | Children (6-12) |
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Acknowledgements I Am a Poem In the Land of the Flibbertigibbets In Looking-Glass Land The Wizard's Dragon The Spotted Origami This is a Troll-Bridge The Grand Old Count of York When Dracula Went to the Doctor Beware the Draculasaurus Di Knows What's Best For Dinosaurs A Cheeky Boy Called Robert Rung You're for the High Jump! My Brother's Allergies Grandpa's False Teeth In Memory of Billy Green Epitaphs The Name of the Game How To Make a Football Best Selling Football Books Football Haiku There Was an Old Woman Mary's Dad Was Football Mad Final Scores Let's Give a Cheer for Onomatopeia Have You Heard? What Do You Call! Anagram Antics Backwards and Forwards Geographical Definitions Travellers' Tales The Itinerant Worker I Used To Work By Definition: Scents Classified Ants Animal Complaints How To Make a Teacher The Word Wizard Said: Give Yourself a Break Anna's All-Star Band Z's a Zipper-Zapper Adverbially Speaking It's a Question of Homonyms Exceptional Pasts Things That Sound Old Blowing Hot and Cold Understanding Uncle Sam Hey Diddle Diddle Bedbug, Bedbug Riddle Spells Threats After the Storm Toothache is a Torturer Six Clerihews Two Kennings Diamond Poem I Am a Free Verse Poem In My Mind's Eye Epigrams Behind the Raised Eyebrow Inside a Shell
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