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The Day I Fell Down the Toilet and Other Poems

Steve Turner author David Mostyn illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:SPCK Publishing

Published:17th May '24

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A best-selling collection of whacky, fun and thought-provoking poetry for children

Have you ever been punched by a cabbage or fallen head first down the loo? Have you ever had fun with a poem? You haven't? Then this book's for you. Whacky poems that take a roller-coaster ride from the crazy corners of dreams to the big questions of life. This collection of over seventy poems for children by Steve Turner is regularly in the best-seller lists. Full of wit and fun, his thought-provoking poetry has been used by teachers in classrooms and entertained children at home over the years. These poems make an instant impact, as the themes and ideas in them offer lots of food for thought for young minds.

"If you read collections of poems by Adrian Mitchell, Roger McGough, Jackie Kay, John Agard, Brian Patten, Kit Wright, Carol Ann Duffy, Steve Turner, Grace Nichols and Benjamin Zephaniah, you'll probably be well set up." -- Michael Rosen * The Times *
"An excellent addition to any poetry section in public or school libraries." * School Librarian Journal *
"This hilarious collection of modern poems will make you laugh out loud." * Young Telegraph *

ISBN: 9781915748133

Dimensions: unknown

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96 pages

2nd edition