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In the Children’s Poetry Bundle:
Balam and Lluvia’s House (2023) Here, the secret tastes and sounds of the everyday are waiting to be found. From the smell of crushed laurel leaves to the whispers of the peach tree in their back garden, every day is a day of discovery. Full of lively and reflective poems, this book invites the reader to run alongside Balam and Lluvia captivated by the world that surrounds them. Lawrence Schimel’s translation brings this children’s poetry collection by acclaimed Guatemalan author and playwright Julio Serrano Echeverría into English for the first time. With full colour illustrations throughout by Yolanda Mosquera.
*Shortlisted for the 2024 CLiPPA*
Page count: 32 | Publication date: 20 February 2023 | Paperback ISBN: 9781915628114
My Sneezes Are Perfect (2021): What’s your favourite food? Who’s your best friend? Have you tried to grow a rock? Aren’t beards weird? Did you ever move house and miss where you used to live? Didn’t a lot change when the pandemic started?
My Sneezes Are Perfect by Rakhshan Rizwan with Yusuf Samee is a collection of poems in the voice of a small boy who wants to tell you about all the things he’s learning, all the time. During the book, he moves from the Netherlands to America and has to adjust to his new life there. Then Covid-19 hits and his world changes all over again. Illustrated by Benjamin Phillips.
Page count: 96 | Publication date: 18 February 2021 | Paperback ISBN: 9781912915682
Moon Juice (2016): Kate Wakeling’s first book of poems for children is full of curious characters and strange situations. The poems she writes are always musical, sometimes magical, and full of wonder at the weirdness of the world. Moon Juice contains 25 poems and features bonus materials, including interviews with the author and the illustrator, Elīna Brasliņa, and ideas for writing your own poems.
*Winner of the 2017 CLiPPA*
Page count: 96 | Publication date: 15 September 2016 | Paperback ISBN 9781910139493
