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"Roger Stevens is my favourite children's poet. You'll love this collection."

-- Baroness Floella Benjamin

“All the best and most frequently requested poems from one of the UK’s most popular poets.”

* The Bookseller *

"From an acclaimed writer of poems about school and family life comes an inventive, inspiring and funny collection that asks to be performed and imitated. A good way to start the new year with laughs."

-- Nicolette Jones * The Sunday Times Best Children's Books of 2022 *

"With themes including Family, School, Pets, the Wild, Being a Poet and Personal Favourites, this is a self-selected collection of Stevens’ best work. I particularly enjoyed the poet’s italicised annotations at the foot of some of the poems. As he says in the collection’s witty introduction, “Just like I do when I’m performing, I often tell you something about the poem; maybe how I came to write it, or how you could perform it.”

* Achuka (Book of the Day) *

"Roger Stevens has done a lot to light the poetry world, and his poems always brighten an anthology...it is obvious that any book full of his own poems will be fabulous fun as well. And this is – plus inventive and offbeat and quirky.

Very much recommended, wittily illustrated by Mike Smith. Five stars."

* Poetry Roundabout *

"A lovely collection of poems... its themes will appeal to any school-goer or parents of one as they emerge from the human space of thoughts, feelings like joy, sadness, anger, loneliness and excitement...

A good read beckoning all to learn, empathise, motivate, enjoy and express themselves through poetry as well."

* Armadillo Magazine *

"Stevens’ irrepressible humour wriggles its way through the book… A long time favourite poet of mine and the many children and trainee teachers with whom I’ve share his work, it’s a delight to lay my hands on this fizzing collection."

* Reading Zo