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Green Glass Beads

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Edited by Jacqueline Wilson

'I like to think this anthology is like a very good restaurant. It’s got a very large menu ... and you’ll hopefully love some things, like many, and maybe wrinkle your nose at a few.'

So says Jacqueline Wilson, introducing this eclectic, unashamedly personal collection of poetry. Old and contemporary, funny or deadly serious, the poems are thematically arranged, ranging through ‘Friends’ and ‘Family’ through ‘Birth and Death’ and ‘Love’ to ‘Rainbows, Moons and Stars’.

This mixture of the deeply familiar alongside delicious new discoveries contains some wonderful juxtapositions and striking pairings which bring you up short; it’s a wisely, passionately compiled selection, ably demonstrating the different kinds of things poetry can do if you will allow it, constantly inviting you to try just one more ...

 

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Children's Laureate 2005-2007
    Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, and spent her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, where she still lives today. She started her writing career as a teenage journalist with D.C. Thompson, writing for the teenage magazine Jackie which was named after her. Today her popular books for children have sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

     

    Jacqueline's books include The Story of Tracy Beaker, which has become a hugely successful BBC TV series; Girls in Love, which together with its two sequels was filmed for ITV television; and Double Act, which she adapted for Channel 4 and which won the Royal TV Society's Best Children's Fiction Award. As the fourth Children's Laureate (2005-2007) she promoted the importance of sharing books, and reading aloud together.

    Visit Jacqueline's website

     

     

    http://www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk
    Jacqueline Wilson
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