Author(s): John Foster
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 80
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Language: English
Date Published: 2011-01-15
Dimensions: 110 x 178 x 6mm
Publication City/Country: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Edition: UK ed.
Illustrations: No

In the Land of the Flibbertigibbets is a collection of playful poems and versatile verses bound to entertain and capture the imagination of the young reader. From poems about a wizard's dragon and a dinosaurs' health spa, nonsense versions of nursery rhymes and fantastic football results, to a cautionary tale about a boy who is always sticking his tongue out. These new poems for children aged 7 to 12, include wordplay poems about anagrams and homonyms, a word-building poem about how to make a teacher, a chant about onomatopoeia and a poem about peculiar plurals. Haikus and clerihews, epitaphs and epigrams, kennings and lists make up this inventive collection.