The Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems
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This issue’s cover is from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Monkey Puzzle. Written in rhyme, this agreeable story has butterfly helping little monkey to find his mum. Scheffler’s distinctive, entertaining and strongly characterised illustrations make good use of the page as little monkey meets lots of jungle inhabitants before being reunited with his mum. Thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help in producing this July cover.
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The Big Orchard Book of Funny Poems
Compiled by Wendy Cope
With an eye to the National Literacy Strategy, Orchard has reissued Wendy Cope's lively compilation in big book format (with - for those who feel the need - 'Literacy Hour' suggestions). There are some thirty poems, long and short from contemporary and more traditional poets so we have Carroll and Causley, Kuskin and Keats, Nicholls and Noyes, McGough and Milne plus a spattering of anon. Some of the poems - riddles and chants or for example Colin West's cumulative crisp, crunching 'Christine Crump' - lend themselves to choral chanting or performance.
