SuitabookLanguage, sound and nonsense
The poems celebrate new, old, family-used and funny words, with examples built around repeated sounds and rhymes.
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Michael Rosen, illustrated by David Tazzyman - Author
This is a performance-friendly poetry collection: playful sounds, repeated rhyme, comic images and short narratives offer opportunities to laugh, listen, join in and notice how words work.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a performance-friendly poetry collection: playful sounds, repeated rhyme, comic images and short narratives offer opportunities to laugh, listen, join in and notice how words work.
The poems celebrate new, old, family-used and funny words, with examples built around repeated sounds and rhymes.
One poem is described as touching, involving very old people remembering when they were children.
Some pieces are plainly silly, while others are described as touching or thought-provoking. Pay attention to whether a child enjoys the shifts between comic nonsense, family material and more reflective poems.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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