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Can it be About Me?
Cheryl Moskowitz
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Description for Can it be About Me?
Paperback. Poems about me, about you, about everyone in the class. Illustrator(s): Asquith, Ros. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 5AF; YDP. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 126 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
What I do when someone calls me stupid…
First of all I know they're wrong,
then I find that place inside where I am strong
I walk away with my head held tall
till I find someone that I can call
a friend
a friend
Poems about me, about you, about everyone in the class.
Poems about friendship, playing games, teachers, bullying, jealousy, quarrels and secrets…
Funny, thoughtful and entertaining, Cheryl Moskowitz is an exciting new talent whose poetry is in tune with what goes on inside and outside the classroom.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Quarto Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847803405
SKU
KSS0001935
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Cheryl Moskowitz
CHERYL MOSKOWITZ is a performance poet, previously an actor and playwright, who regularly visits schools, performing her work and giving workshops. In 2011 she was awarded 2nd prize in the Hippocrates Award for Poetry and Medicine, and her adult novel, Wyoming Trail, is published by Granta. Can it be about Me? is her first published book of poetry for children. She lives in north London. ROS ASQUITH has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years, and has written and illustrated over 70 books for young people, including the bestseller The Great Big Book of Families, with Mary Hoffman, the Teenage Worrier series, Letters from an Alien Schoolboy-which was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize- and her debut picture story book It’s Not Fairy. Ros lives in north London with her husband and two sons. For more information about Ros, visit her website: www.rosasquith.co.uk
Reviews for Can it be About Me?
'As well as keenly observed pen portraits of school life, the author precedes eat poem with a comment about its origin, or an explanation of poetic form making this an anthology with a difference.' 'An appealing and warm collection' funny, thoughtful and entertaining. A delightfully varied collection of poems which capture many of the familiar things that take place in classrooms, every day and every where funny, thoughtful and entertaining. 'an exuberant assortment' 'A gem of a collection' 'A wealth of carefully observed and recollected vignettes of childhood experience: funny, poignant, angry and hopeful by turns, it is a lovely gift for a primary school child.' 'An appealing and warm collection' 'As well as keenly observed pen portraits of school life, the author precedes eat poem with a comment about its origin, or an explanation of poetic form making this an anthology with a difference.'