Price: £4.99
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Genre: Poetry
Age Range: 10-14 Middle/Secondary
Length: 96pp
- Chosen by: Susie Gibbs
Poems to Take on Holiday
Illustrator: Jess MikhailThis is an amusing collection full of holiday aggravations and catastrophes. Even the old classic about wherever an English person is, there must be a fried breakfast appears. Images of ‘airborne trampolines’ and trolleys hiding in the car park stayed with me long after I closed the book. You’ll recognise many of the cringe inducing experiences like the poem of what not to say to the B&B landlady. I loved the idea that ‘bank holiday’s aren’t just for people, the sun’s worked non-stop since July’. Not sure that this would fit in my luggage but a fun attempt to get shelf space in the bookshops at Heathrow.