PAUL COOKSON THE WORKS EVERY KIND OF POEM YOU WILL EVER NEED FOR LITERACY HOUR
The Works : Every Kind of Poem You Will Ever Need for the Literacy Hour
Edited by:Paul Cookson,
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN/EAN:0330481045 / 9780330481045
Format:Paperback
Pagination:608 pages, illustrations
Dimensions:197 x 130 mm, 376 grams
Country of Pub.:United Kingdom
Pub Date:11/08/2000
"The Works" is 10 years old and this special anniversary edition features brand-new lesson plans from poets including John Foster, Brian Moses, Valerie Bloom and Pie Corbett. "The Works" contains every kind of poem you will ever need for the Literacy Hour but it is also a book packed with brilliant poems that will delight any reader. It's got chants, action verses, riddles, tongue twisters, shape poems, puns, acrostics, haikus, cinquains, kennings, couplets, thin poems, lists, conversations, monologues, epitaphs, songs, limericks, tankas, nonsense poems, raps, narrative verse and performance poetry that's just for starters.
It features poems from the very best classic and modern poets, for example: William Blake, Michael Rosen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Allan Ahlberg, W.H. Auden, Brian Patten, Roger McGough, Roald Dahl, Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ted Hughes, T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare to name but a few.
A book packed with gems for dipping in to time and time again.
