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Description for Why is the Sky?
Paperback. An anthology of children's verse from all over the world, posing questions about the natural world, about people and animals, and about life and death. The selection is arranged so that the poems question, answer and tease each other, and with surprising juxtapositions. Illustrator(s): Klimowski, Andrzej. Editor(s): Agard, John. Num Pages: 112 pages, 40 b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 170 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
This anthology is a wonderful amalgam of the humourous, inventive, surprising and profound. When a child begins asking 'Why?', he or she has firmly announced their intention to engage with the world and life. John Agard has arranged his selection of poetry in a way that creates its own narrative drive, the poems question, answer and tease each other. You will be laughing at a clown one minute and contemplating a hangman the next; quaking at Blake's Tyger while worrying for Grace Nichols's weeping Caterpillar. 'How did the sun get up in the sky?' 'Where do giants go to cry?': ... Read more
This anthology is a wonderful amalgam of the humourous, inventive, surprising and profound. When a child begins asking 'Why?', he or she has firmly announced their intention to engage with the world and life. John Agard has arranged his selection of poetry in a way that creates its own narrative drive, the poems question, answer and tease each other. You will be laughing at a clown one minute and contemplating a hangman the next; quaking at Blake's Tyger while worrying for Grace Nichols's weeping Caterpillar. 'How did the sun get up in the sky?' 'Where do giants go to cry?': ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571179428
SKU
KSS0002939
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
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