We Couldn't Provide Fish Thumbs ¦ Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died

Most of the poems in these collections are amusingly illustrated and each is (unusually) signed by the poet at the end, which, along with notes about the contributors help to reinforce the fact that poets are real people.

The popularity of poetry books at my school's recent bookfair, particularly among boys, indicates that these breezy volumes should prove a hit with readers at Key Stages 2 and 3. With dialect, jokes, rhymes, wordplay, masses of humour and few poems stretching to a second page, children's poetry is seen to be definitely here, now and accessible. Very few of the works are ones endlessly anthologised elsewhere.