This anthology is a wonderful amalgam of the humourous, inventive, surprising and profound. When a child begins asking 'Why?', he or she has firmly announced their intention to engage with the world and life. John Agard has arranged his selection of poetry in a way that creates its own narrative drive, the poems question, answer and tease each other. You will be laughing at a clown one minute and contemplating a hangman the next; quaking at Blake's Tyger while worrying for Grace Nichols's weeping Caterpillar. 'How did the ...
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This anthology is a wonderful amalgam of the humourous, inventive, surprising and profound. When a child begins asking 'Why?', he or she has firmly announced their intention to engage with the world and life. John Agard has arranged his selection of poetry in a way that creates its own narrative drive, the poems question, answer and tease each other. You will be laughing at a clown one minute and contemplating a hangman the next; quaking at Blake's Tyger while worrying for Grace Nichols's weeping Caterpillar. 'How did the sun get up in the sky?' 'Where do giants go to cry?': Why is the Sky? will give you answers, but perhaps not ones you'd expect.
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Very Good. An anthology of children's verse from all over the world, posing questions about the natural world, about people and animals, and about life and death. The selection is arranged so that the poems question, answer and tease each other, and with surprising juxtapositions. Illustrator(s): Klimowski, Andrzej. Editor(s): Agard, John. Num Pages: 112 pages, 40 b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 170 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. 1997. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of Why is the Sky? to cart. $71.88, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Faber and Faber Ltd.