A Ticket to Kalamazoo!

There are a wide variety of poems in this collection, poems with imaginative imagery, clear patterns and memorable choruses, list poems, a rap, a recipe, and poems which invite actions.

We are taken on a journey throughout the book from poems about ourselves to exciting adventures (travelling to Kalamazoo, Timbuktu and Katmandu!) There are poems about animals in all shapes and sizes from bugs to elephants, poems about fairy tales, nighttime, space and aliens.

The order of the poetry is well balanced, after taking us on adventures the collection ends with a comforting poem for anyone not feeling too happy, ‘Hug Day,’ followed by a celebratory ‘Happy Poem.’

Appealing illustrations wrap around the poems on highly colourful pages making this a very attractive book.

The strap line for this lively poetry collection is ‘Zippy Poems to Read Out Loud’ and they certainly invite you to do just that. This collection would be fun to share at home and even better in school with an enthusiastic chorus of voices. The simple structures and ideas are also perfectly pitched to inspire children to create their own poems.