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Songs and Verse
Songs and Verse
Nov 14, 2024 5:17 AM

Author:Roald Dahl,Quentin Blake

Songs and Verse

Think of your favourite Roald Dahl moment and surely a song or verse cannot be far away...

SONGS AND VERSE has seven sections bursting with rhymes about monsters, magical creatures, gruesome children, ghastly adults as well as a few unusual surprises. From the strange and scrumptious dishes enjoyed by James's Centipede to George and his marvellous medicine, and from greedy Augustus Gloop to the Giraffe and the Pelly and Me there are many classics here together with some previously unpublished treats.

With a foreword and opening illustrations by Quentin Blake, and illustrations throughout from other award-winning artists such as Babette Cole, Lauren Child, Chris Riddell, Alel Scheffler and Tony Ross, you will find a touch of magic on every page.

Reviews

Another new series which promises to be a big hit with young readers . . . Abie Longstaff is a great writer for young children, who knows just how to capture her readers' attention and encourage them to enjoy reading

—— Parents in Touch

Every age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst... Shakespeare haunts our language

—— Independent

Shakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time

—— Peter Ackroyd

Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third

—— T.S. Eliot

Every single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself

—— Alexander Pope

Shakespeare is the best thing that ever happened to this country

—— Roy Hattersley

Shakespeare modernised the form of the sonnet, and transformed it from a stylised, courtly love shtick to a fluent and flexible form that could turn itself to any subject

—— Don Paterson , Guardian

With his perfect pacing, lack of sentimentality and refusal to submit to a neat end, Boyne has written one of the children’s books of the year

—— The Times

A powerful new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and it is equally atmospheric and disturbing . . . Mesmerizing

—— Parents in Touch

Another winner

—— Glasgow Sunday Herald

Compelling and thought-provoking

—— Teach Primary
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