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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! - An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Fiona Waters
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry | Series: Poetry Collections
A breathtaking anthology featuring an animal poem for every day of the year illustated by award-winning artist, Britta Teckentrup. This lavishly illustrated gift book treasury of 366 animal poems ranges from unforgettable classics to contemporary works from around the world, including poetry in transla ...Show more
This Is Home: Essential Australian Poems For Children by Jackie French (Selected by); Tania McCartney (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
In This Is Home, much-loved author Jackie French has gathered a poem for every child and every mood. What do you feel like doing today? Sit beside a bush campfire with Oodgeroo Noonuccal, watch people going by with Henry Lawson, float away with Alison Lester, learn to read with Andy Griffiths or be brav ...Show more
A World Full of Poems
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
A gorgeously illustrated introduction to poetry for children, featuring poems about everything from science, sport, and space, to friendship, family, and feelings. This thoughtfully crafted anthology is perfect for children new to verse, and for young poetry fans seeking out new favourites. Explore poet ...Show more
A Boat of Stars: New Poems to Inspire and Enchant by Margaret Connolly; Natalie Jane Prior
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
A boat of stars came down tonightand sailed around my bed -it sprinkled stardust on my eyes,put dreams inside my head Open worlds of imagination and explore the magic of everyday life with this enchanting new collection of poetry from some of Australia's most-loved writers and illustrators. Perfect for ...Show more
Aloud in My Head: Children's Poets Discuss a Poem Each by JonArno Lawson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
A new edition of a ground-breaking poetry anthology (previously Inside Out) in which 21 poets each discuss one of their poems and how they came to write it. They are on a wide range of subjects - colonialism, cows in the beach, telling lies, aquariums - and there's also nonsense verse, a poem about alli ...Show more
Read to Your Toddler Every Day by Lucy Brownridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
Science tells us that young children develop best when they are read to. In this follow-up to Read to Your Baby Every Day, soothe your toddler with retellings of traditional folk tales, fairy tales and fables from around the world paired with images of Chloe Giordano's charming hand-embroidered illustra ...Show more
Poems from a Green and Blue Planet by Sabrina Mahfouz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
A stunning collection of new and classic poems from around the world celebrating the diversity of life on our green and blue planet, to be shared with all the family. With new poems from Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Kate Tempest, Hollie McNish and Sabrina Mahfouz. Dive into this book and be swept away ...Show more
My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry | Series: My Very First Mother Goose
To a small child, words are magical. And the most magical of all are the beloved, venerable words of Mother Goose. Now folklorist Iona Opie has gathered more than sixty treasured rhymes in their most perfect, honest form. From "Hey Diddle, Diddle" and "Pat-a-Cake" to "Little Jack Horner" and "Pussycat, ...Show more
What is Poetry?: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems by Michael Rosen
$14.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets. Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invalua ...Show more
Rhyme Stew by Roald Dahl
$16.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ...Show more
Read to Your Baby Every Day: 30 Classic Nursery Rhymes by Rachel Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
Science tells us that babies develop best and connect with people and the world around them when they are spoken to, sung to and read to. Even when they're tiny, the sound of their parents' voices helps them make sense of the world and feel comfortable with new people and places. This treasury gives p ...Show more
Shuffle and Squelch by Julia Donaldson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Nursery Rhymes & Poetry
Kick your boots off, everyone. Summer's here and so's the sun. Bright, bold and accessible, this collection of poems is packed full of noises and actions -- perfect for joining in. There are counting rhymes and animal rhymes, rhymes to make you shuffle and squelch and clatter and patter, and rhymes to m ...Show more