A Packet of Poems
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"Our cover picture Holiday traffic on its way to the coast, August 1960' may evoke nostalgia, interest, curiosity or speculation. Whatever the response, if it encourages close looking that is what Penny Marshall had in mind when she selected for Cars (0 356 l 1393 0) in her The Camera as witness series for Macdonald."
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A Packet of Poems
'I'm lost among a maze of cans, behind a pyramid of jams, quite near asparagus and rice, close to the Oriental spice...' Ramblings among the supermarket shelves get this excellent collection of poems about food, a novel idea, off on a good footing. Some consciously clever ('Say Cheese' by Kit Wright, 'O Sliver of Liver' from Mary Livingston), but the majority mainly 'fun' poems, both to delight and amuse youngsters. Some old favourites, like 'Through the teeth/And past the gums/Look out stomach/Here it comes,' and the evergreen anthem of doomed youth, school dinners, 'If you stay to school dinners/Better throw them aside/A lot of kids didn't/A lot of kids died.
