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A Shame To Miss Poetry Collection 2

  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens

  • ISBN: 9780552566995

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 117g

  • RRP: £6.99

A Shame To Miss Poetry Collection 2

Anne Fine, the 2001-3 Children's Laureate, is a life-long lover of poetry, and A SHAME TO MISS...2 is one of her three irresistible collections of poetry for young readers.

Aimed at 9-11s, the collection contains a wonderful mixture of the familiar and classic (W H Auden, A E Housman, Christina Rossetti, Wordsworth and other poets) with poems from the late 20th century like Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving but Drowning' or Ted Hughes 'Full Moon and Little Frieda'. Poets from Afro-Caribbean backgrounds like John Agard and Grace Nichols are featured, alongside several other poets from non-European cultures.

  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens

  • ISBN: 9780552566995

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 117g

  • RRP: £6.99

Reviews

  • Three truly inspiring volumes of poetry.

    Sunday Times

  • These little collections not only abound with wonders but are inviting and interactive.Parents and teachers should pounce on them.

    Guardian

  • These three collections represent a stupendous act of rummaging.Her choices are quirky and rather canny

    Daily Telegraph

  • For younger readers there's an excellent trio of anthologies

    Daily Mail

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About the Author

Anne Fine

Anne Fine read Politics and History at Warwick and then became a teacher. Her first novel was published in 1975 and today she is one of the UK's most successful children's writers. She has won many awards including two Carnegie Medals, the Guardian Fiction Prize, two Whitbread Prizes and a Smarties Prize. GOGGLE EYES was serialised on TV and MADAME DOUBTFIRE became a hit Hollywood movie. Anne lives in County Durham.

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