CONTENTS
TASTER
I Want…
Remy Charlip
1
K Lampard
10
Robert Froman
12
FlRST WORD
Have You Ever Seen?
PICTURE POEM
Homeweb
l’D RATHER HAVE A GERBlL
Escapades
Michaela Morgan
My Praying Mantis
John Lyons
A Protest About Cabbage
Brian Moses
Ox and Axolotl
Paul Bright
The Gerbil
Tony Bradman
Rabbit Poem
Pamela Mordecai
Chicken Dinner
Valerie Bloom
Sophisticat
Gareth Owen
Our New Arrivals
Oliver Hilton-Johnson
My Pony
Rachel Keefe
14
16
18
20
21
22
24
26
27
28
PICTURE POEM
A Flamingo Is
J Patrick Lewis
30
James Carter
Lord Tennyson
Cherry Hiscox
32
34
35
SHlNlNG OF THElR WlNGS
The A–Z of Bopping Birds
The Eagle
My Christmas Thought
The Sparrow
Going South
Starlings
A Poem to Emus
The Ladybird
A Dragonfly
Aileen Fisher
Brian Moses
Lucy Hosegood
David Whitehead
Leoma Rushton
Eleanor Farjeon
36
38
40
41
42
43
Coral Rumble
44
Wasps
Dorothy Aldis
ABQ
Bernard Young
Message for the Mosquito
Who Shares My Bedroom Pie Corbett
It’s a Dog’s Lice…
John Rice
Don’t Call Alligator Long-Mouth
Till You Cross River
John Agard
The Panther
Ogden Nash
Song of a Bear
North American Indian
46
47
PICTURE POEM
Patterning
PREPARE TO SAY OUCH
48
50
52
53
54
PICTURE POEM
Mosquito
Marie Zbierski
56
BLUEBOTTLES ON MOTORBlKES
Fly-By-Nights
Patricia Leighton
The Day of the Gulls
Jennifer Curry
Winter
William Shakespeare
Summer
Justin Bloomfield
Jazzz Does a Dance
Dave Ward
from… The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Robert Browning
58
59
60
62
64
65
Of Evening in the Wintertime George Barker
Bluebottles
Tim Pointon
66
67
PICTURE POEM
The Honey Pot
Alan Riddell
68
Pie Corbett
Adrian Henri
Ian Serraillier
Dee Turner
John Clare
Arnold Spilka
Anon
June Crebbin
70
71
72
74
76
77
78
80
David Poulter
82
Worm’s-Eye-View of the F.A. Cup Final
Tony Mitton
Only My Opinion
Monica Shannon
Ants
Neil Fairweather
Slug
Jim Bremner
Spider on the Toilet
Andrew Collett
The Lizard
Catherine Smart
Mice
Rose Fyleman
Small, Smaller
Russell Hoban
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
OVER A GREEN HEDGE
Animal Riddle
H25
Anne and the Fieldmouse
Vegetarian
Sheep in Winter
Gigl
The Donkey
In This Tree
PICTURE POEM
Snail
SMALL, SMALLER
PICTURE POEM
Earth-Worm
Leonard Clark
92
A RlPPLE, A WOBBLE, A STlR
Frogs in Water
Andrew Abbott
It’s A:
Ann Bonner
Ducks’ Ditty
Kenneth Grahame
The Eel
Ogden Nash
I’m Only A Number 2
Sue Stewart
Albatross
Eleanor Farjeon
Penguin
Rebecca Clark
The Sea Otter
Alison Jezard
Seal
Lyn Melandri
The Whale’s Hymn
Brian Patten
An Alligator I Saw in Florida
Wes Magee
The Hippopotamus
Anon
94
95
96
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
106
107
PICTURE POEM
Frogspawn
Peter Dixon 108
HALF-REMEMBERED FOREST NlGHT
Night Prowler
Jennifer Curry
The New Gnus
John Foster
Grey Squirrels
Jane Whittle
The Sloth
Colin West
Iguana
Paul Cookson
I Wannabe a Wallaby
David Whitehead
The Lion
Paul Cookson
Something to Do in a Traffic Jam
Judith Nicholls
Elephantasia
David Whitehead
Tiger and Wolf
Judith Nicholls
The Tiger
Vorakit Boonchareon
110
111
112
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
PICTURE POEM
Tall Story
Mike Johnson 122
LAST WORD
The Deers’ Request
Elizabeth Jennings 124
The Day of the Gulls
On a silver-cold day
Under snow-heavy clouds
The seagulls come
Driven inland
Swooping and screaming
Over the scraps in the gutters.
The children stare
As the street is made beautiful
By the white shining
Of their wings.
Jennifer Curry
59
Winter
When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail;
When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo!
Tuwhit! tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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When all around the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson’s saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian’s nose looks red and raw;
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl –
Then nightly sings the staring owl
Tuwhoo!
Tuwhit! tuwhoo! A merry note!
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
William Shakespeare
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