Never Stare at a Grizzly Bear: Animal Poems; A Sea Creature Ate My Teacher: Fishy Poems; Let's Twist Again: More Tongue Twisters and Tonsil Twizzlers
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This issue’s cover shows Jane Simmons’ popular character, Daisy, and her baby brother Pip. Two Daisy books with their ‘dynamic yet affectionate pictures’ full of painterly exuberance are reviewed in this issue. Thanks to Orchard Books for their help in producing this May cover.
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Never Stare at a Grizzly Bear: Animal Poems
Illustrated by David Parkins
A Sea Creature Ate My Teacher: Fishy Poems
Chosen by Brian Moses
Let's Twist Again: More Tongue Twisters and Tonsil Twizzlers
Chosen by Paul Cookson
Toczek makes Olympian efforts in Never Stare at a Grizzly Bear to use rhyme and wordplay in each and every one of these poems. I was exhausted by the eighth poem where pigs in wigs are swigged by the sea. It's just not clever and not funny enough. Let's Twist Again and A Sea Creature offer more pigs in wigs and largely unfunny rhyming verses. Apart from the fresh voice of Martin Glynn in the Let's Twist Again anthology, these are predictable 'zany' poems which do nothing for the imagination or for poetry.
