Our favourite poetry books (older children)
Check out our favourite poetry books for older children aged 9-12.
Poetry can be great to broaden reading horizons, as well as truly engaging for reluctant readers. Here are some poetry books your child is sure to love and want to read out loud.
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Sensational!
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Sensational!
Every poem could inspire a child's writing, reading or thinking, and their teachers' too.
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Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
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Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
Maya Angelou’s seminal poem Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, about the courage inside us all (whatever age our age), is matched for …
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Michael Rosen's A to Z
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Michael Rosen's A to Z
Former Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen, gathers together the best children’s poetry from Agard to Zephaniah in this…
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Pumpkin Grumpkin
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Pumpkin Grumpkin
Amusing and bemusing poetry from around the globe. John Agard and Grace Nichols have assembled a bunch of silly poems in this new …
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100 Brilliant Poems for Children
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100 Brilliant Poems for Children
How do you define a poem? Song lyrics, performance pieces, blank verse, a Shakespearean speech and hilarious rhymes, both classic …
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A Little Aloud for Children
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A Little Aloud for Children
Ideal for classroom use as well as bedtime reading, this is a delightfully varied and enjoyable collection.
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Let’s Celebrate! Festival poems from around the world
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Let’s Celebrate! Festival poems from around the world
Everyone loves a celebration and with this lively, multicultural, poetry anthology there is an excuse to celebrate almost all year…
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A Kid in my Class
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A Kid in my Class
This brilliant and imaginatively illustrated book is the perfect addition to any classroom library; a book of clever poems picking…
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Red, Cherry Red
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Red, Cherry Red
Truthful, soulful and witty poems in this collection explore a theme of identity. Who are we? What reveals us? Is our identity bou…
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I am a Poetato
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I am a Poetato
This collection of poetry is arranged in A to Z order. It includes funny, touching, fascinating and totally original poems from th…
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Can it be About Me?
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Can it be About Me?
Exploring life in and out of the classroom, the poems in this collection explore everything from spelling tests to best friends, t…
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My Mum’s Growing Down
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My Mum’s Growing Down
What do you do if your mum loves nothing better than complaining in restaurants and calling museum guards fruit bats? What if she …
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New and Collected Poems for Children
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New and Collected Poems for Children
Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, brings together the best of her poems for children.
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What Are We Fighting For?
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What Are We Fighting For?
Starting from 1914, this new collection of poems explores individual as well as universal experiences of life, love, death and ber…
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Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses
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Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses
Brian Moses gathers 100 of his own favourite - and brilliant - poems from his prolific career, which spans nearly 30 years, into a…
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Chicken on the Roof
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Chicken on the Roof
If you need an excuse to stay in bed or had one of those days when everything seems to go wrong, Matt Goodfellow knows exactly how…
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Poetry for a Change
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Poetry for a Change
This is the first-ever official National Poetry Day anthology, and it's a truly brilliant book for children to get stuck into all …
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All the Wild Wonders: Poems of the Earth
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All the Wild Wonders: Poems of the Earth
Celebrating the wonder and variety of the earth - and the need to protect it - this is an eclectic collection of poetry from acros…
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Green Glass Beads
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Green Glass Beads
An eclectic collection of poetry that mixes old and contemporary, funny and deadly serious poems
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Quick, Let’s Get Out of Here
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Quick, Let’s Get Out of Here
Two former Children’s Laureates join forces for this brilliantly entertaining poetry collection for children
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