I Never Know How Poems Start: Band 10/White (Collins Big Cat)
illustrated by Yuliya Somina
On Sale: 09/03/2012
Format:
About the Book
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level
Inspiration for poetry can come from anywhere – a memory, an insight and even broccoli! Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen explains the inspiration behind a selection of his own quirky poems, highlighting that ideas can come from many different places.
- White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language.
- Text type: A poetry book
- Pages 22 and 23 summarise some of the inspirations and resulting poems, allowing children to discuss and explore the ideas from the book.
- Curriculum links: Literacy: Really Looking; Language play.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780007462049
- ISBN 10: 0007462042
- Imprint: Collins
- On Sale: 09/03/2012
- Pages: 32
- List Price:7.99 CAD
- Ages: 6 to 8
- BISAC1 : EDUCATION / Elementary
- BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Imagination & Play
- BISAC3 : JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General
- BISAC4 : JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education
- BISAC5 : EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics

Michael Rosen
Biography
Michael Rosen was born in Middlesex in 1946 and studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He started out as a trainee at the BBC, working in radio drama, and on Play School and Schools Television before going to the National Film School. Since 1976, he has been writing, performing, teaching and appearing on radio and television as well as writing for The Guardian. Among his many children’s books is the multi-award-winning We're Going On a Bear Hunt. Michael was one of the first poets to visit schools and is committed to the teaching of writing and the reading of literature in schools. He won the 1997 Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children's literature, was appointed the Children's Laureate for 2007-2009 and received the JM Barrie Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
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Yuliya Somina
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I Never Know How Poems Start: Band 10/White (Collins Big Cat)
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