Monthly Archives: September 2024

Often when I think about poetry for children, I think it’s a bit worthy and well, dull. It's for learning by rote and reciting at school assemblies or for use as a handy ink exercise. Well, these two books definitely challenge these assumptions.  Michael Rosen’s A Great Big Cuddle is packed with thirty-five wonderfully fun verses for preschool children and can be found in…

This is a great wee book. I read it between breakfast and lunch one morning – with time left over.  It’s a delight. A delicious delight. When I finished it I sat stunned that it was over, and going over and over it in my head. Where it has happily stayed since. Hence this review. It’s published by the American…